Benefits of Tire Retread

Sam Simon
Dec 20, 2007

Harvey Brodsky, Managing Director of the Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau, explains which tires in an equipment fleet are able to be retread (hint: all of them) and how implementing a retread system can save contractors large amounts of money.


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