A little more than a month after consumers and neighborhood repairers packed a Massachusetts State House hearing room to urge passage of the Right to Repair legislation, the State Senate late Thursday evening strongly approved the measure.

Tags: Art Kinsman, Right to Repair, Right to Repair Coalition, State legislation

Yesterday's high performance tires, by comparison, are today's broad-line tires. Today's high and ultra-high performance tires are engineering marvels.

Tags: Hank Feldman, Kevin Keefe, Kevin Rohlwing, Mounting and balancing, Performance Plus Tire, Plus-sizing, Tire Industry Association, TPMS, UHP Tires

Jerry O’Pry, CEO of BlueMagic, believes in BlueMagic’s new Supreme Wheel & Tire Care Kit. In fact, he says he’ll lose his job if BlueMagic doesn’t sell 67,000 kits through local auto parts stores by mid-June, 2012.

Tags: BlueMagic, Jerry O’Pry, Supreme Wheel & Tire Care Kit

More than 1,700 exhibitors have confirmed booth space for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show, taking place Oct. 30–Nov. 2, in Las Vegas, Nev.

Tags: 2012 Global Tire Expo, Peter MacGillivray, SEMA, TIA, Trade Shows

Permatex has developed the new Mechanic’s Hand Repair Lotion designed especially for automotive technicians.

Tags: Christine Patterson, Hand Cleaners, Permatex Mechanic’s Hand Repair Lotion

The Tire Industry Association (TIA) announced today that the Spanish translation of the Commercial Tire Service (CTS) Program is complete.

Tags: Commercial Tire Service Program, Spanish Training, TIA