"Sales are better than what we expected" at Bob Sumerel Tire Co. Inc.´s month-old Carrollton, Ky., commercial tire location, says Todd Sumerel, president of the dealership´s commercial tire division.
The outlet specializes in OTR tires and handles "a lot of non-national fleet business."
Erlanger, Ky.-based Bob Sumerel Tire has 35 outlets, 11 of them commercial-only and five of them combination commercial and retail.
It´s the 32nd largest tire dealership in North America, according to Modern Tire Dealer´s 2004 Top 100 Independent Tire Store Chains list.
