It’s no surprise that diesel fuel is the single largest operating expense for a trucking fleet. A commercial truck can easily consume more than $70,000 of diesel fuel per year. Owner operators have zero control over fuel prices, but there are many ways they can reduce fuel costs — like tires!

The Double Coin Tires “Little Truckers Coloring Contest,” designed to promote trucking to youngsters, garnered more than 200 entries ranging from realism to the abstract.

Good news for North American fleets and owner operators wanting high quality TBR tires at competitive prices — Double Coin’s plant in Thailand is now operating at full capacity for TBR tires, as well as OTR radials.

Hauling grain out of farms can be tricky when there is often snow, ice and mud to deal with . . . that’s why driver/mechanic Chris Diehl loves his Double Coin RLB1  open shoulder drive tires.

Minnesota owner operator Larry Vandenplas Googled “best spread axle tire” and read about an Alabama dealer extolling the virtues of the Double Coin RR150.

Do you have any “Little Truckers” in the family?

Glen Rice has just about seen it all in 46 years of driving and when it comes to drive tires, he says he hasn’t seen anything better than the Double Coin RLB400.

Many folks may call scrap tire piles ugly, but to the fleet manager, they should be beautiful because they contain hidden gold in terms of intelligence that can reduce tire operating costs.

  Interested in reducing your tire costs . . . by a lot? Think retreading.

Is it time to redefine the tiers? Double Coin rises through the ranks in two independent fuel efficiency tests for line haul and regional applications.