Selecting the right tread pattern for tires used on the often-hostile road surface of a construction site, as shown here on this dump truck, can help resist "chipping and chunking" caused by stones ...

A tire might look like a simple component – a round piece of rubber with a tread design – though it’s anything but. Likewise, tire performance has to do with more than simply moving your truck down ...

The following was published in CCJ's Equipment Maintenance Toolkit, 8th edition, sponsored by Valvoline Heavy Duty. CCJ's Equipment Maintenance Toolkit is a complementary industry resource, courtesy ...

You may be familiar with palmistry, a category of fortune-telling based on interpreting the creases and lines on the inner surface of a person's hand. Some folks will read the soles of your feet, too.

FORT MILL, S.C.—For more than a century Continental A.G.'s tires have been defined by greater performance and safety thanks in great part to tread patterns. And this year, the company marks a ...

FINDLAY, Ohio—Endurica L.L.C. continues to draw attention for its simulated tire evaluation capabilities, this time from the Department of Energy for work on tire tread pattern predictions. The ...

FINDLAY, Ohio — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a grant to engineering software firm Coreform L.L.C.to apply its isogeometric analysis (IGA) technology to simulate advanced tread ...

These easy, effective tips will stop the guessing and measure your vehicle's tire health, bolstering safety, performance, and fuel economy.

Tire companies are building better tires. But making sense of technological innovations in tire manufacturing leaves us with a lot to discover. A major transformation in passenger tires is the ...

Getting a fresh set of tires feels like a mini celebration. The rubber is pristine, the tread is aggressive, and the road ...

AKRON — Is the "penny check" about to go the way of the buggy whip? Based on a bevy of automated and digital tread-depth measuring devices and technologies launched recently that might be more than a ...