Love's Travel Stops, which carries a full line of Double Coin commercial truck tires, has opened seven Travel Stops in recent weeks in seven states with Speedco tire and mechanical services on site, including tire, lube and light mechanical services on a 24/7 basis.
The trucking industry moved 10.23 billion tons of freight in 2020, generating $732.3 billion in revenue, according to the latest edition of American Trucking Associations’ American Trucking Trends 2021. It is truly "our nation's lifeline," and CMA/Double Coin is honored to be part of it!
Topics: Trucking industry, Double Coin tire brand
Tire Business magazine got it right -- For 2021, tire price increases joined death and taxes as things one couldn't avoid! Unfortunately, 2022 (at least the first half) looks like more of the same.
Topics: Trucking industry
Good news for Double Coin customers who travel Southern highways. Love's Travel Stops has added Speedco truck services at three of its travel stops in Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Topics: Trucking industry
Love's Travel Stops, which carries Double Coin tires, has replaced a retread plant and distribution center in Texas with a twice larger, 200,000-square-foot facility in El Reno, OK.
Topics: Trucking industry
Freight rates on the open market have gone crazy! The ports are all swamped and container ships are anchored offshore waiting to drop inbound containers. The good news is . . . CMA/Double Coin is better positioned than most tire manufacturers to keep our TBR and OTR customers supplied.
Topics: Trucking industry
Analysts are mixed on the 2021 trucking freight outlook, but agree that constraints exist, including tire supply. We're doing our part at CMA/Double Coin; our new highly advanced plant is producing 4,000 TBR and OTR tire units each day!
Topics: Trucking industry
Driver shortages . . . it's a huge topic of discussion at every trucking conference, including the recent CCJ Spring Symposium held in Birmingham which was co-sponsored by Double Coin Tires.
Topics: Trucking industry
Remember when tennis star Andre Agassi said “image is everything” in the Canon TV ads back in the 90’s? That certainly applies to the current perception problem for technical careers in the trucking industry.
Topics: Trucking industry
Social media has become an important communications channel for the trucking industry with people sharing information and making valuable business connections. Just look at the Facebook communities of the major truck manufacturers -- very robust online communities with tens of thousands of fans.
Topics: Trucking industry