A company affiliated with Virginia Tech has invented a new tire testing material that replicates real asphalt. Most tire testing is done on a flat-trac machine, in which a metal belt spins underneath ...

Tire testing has got to be one of the best parts of our job, but also one that requires a fair bit of skill. Every year or so we round up the latest treads, haul them out to the desert, mud, and rocks ...

CANTON, Ohio—Goodyear has begun collaborating with an Ohio regional transit authority to test intelligent tire sensors and prototype tires on a fleet of diesel and zero emission hydrogen fuel ...

AKRON — Smithers Group Inc.has promoted Matt Kent to general manager of its Smithers Tire & Wheel Test Center in Ravenna, Ohio. Smithers, a testing and consulting firm that offers an array of ...

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y — Three of the premier road-course competitors in the NASCAR Cup Series — Tyler Reddick, Daniel Suárez and Austin Cindric — took to the historic twists and turns of Watkins Glen ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — If trials under way at Discount Tire's test facility in Scottsdale are successful, the nation's No. 2 retail tire dealership could start installing RoboTire robotic tire-changing ...