Tag: commercial truck tires

Business

Yokohama tire prices increase

Prices on light and medium commercial truck tires will increase up to 7 percent March 1, Yokohama Tire Corp. announced.

February 4, 2010

Channel 19

Tire termites?

The termite-damage-like crevices in this tire are the result of extreme voltage, “electricity that ‘burrowed’ through this tire” when a boom truck hit a high wire and the electricity made its way through the frame on its way to the ground, wrote the editors of Real Answers, where the pic first appeared. If you think of rubber as the ultimate insulator, think again, they added. “Even insulators will conduct electricity if the voltage is high enough.” (The operator walked away from this incident unharmed.)

December 16, 2009