A Tire Technician and the Service Call He Almost Didn’t Survive

John Melosci recounts the day he took a shortcut while on a service call. It was 35 years ago. This third-generation tire dealer still confronts the aftereffects of the incident all these years later. He tells his story on this episode of The Modern Tire Dealer Show.
Aug. 21, 2025
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John Melosci was a young road service technician in 1990 when he hopped in a service truck to repair a tire on a dump truck. That service call nearly cost him his life.
John Melosci was a young road service technician in 1990 when he hopped in a service truck to repair a tire on a dump truck. That service call nearly cost him his life.

Servicing a leaky tire on a dump truck almost brought an end to not just John Melosci’s tire industry career, but his life. Melosci recounts the day he took a shortcut while on a service call. It was 35 years ago. This third-generation tire dealer still confronts the aftereffects of the incident all these years later. He tells his story on this episode of The Modern Tire Dealer Show.

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After more than a dozen years working as a newspaper reporter in Kansas, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, Joy Kopcha joined Modern Tire Dealer as senior editor in 2014. She has covered murder trials, a prison riot and more city council, county commission, and school board meetings than she cares to remember.

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