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August 31, 2015

WE WANT YOU TO SEE THE FOLLOWING SENT TO US BY AL 'ACE' EAGLESON OF DYNAMIC TIRE.
IT WAS SENT IN RESPONSE TO OUR RECENT EMAIL WHICH MENTIONED PEGGY FISHER'S ARTICLE
ABOUT CHINESE TRUCK TIRES IN TIRE BUSINESS AND WE BELIEVE IT IS WORTH READING.

Harvey, thanks for bringing my attention to the article mentioned in your email.  Peggy Fisher makes some viable points.  However, we are a strategic sourcing partner for several of the largest tire dealers (Kal Tire, Fountain Tire, OK Tire, Coast Tire and Benson Tire) in Canada.  All of our truck tire brands are made by three manufactures in China – Aeolus, Sailun and Triangle.  Certainly, we feel that all of these brands/manufacturers are consistent and reputable.  Their manufacturing plants are clean and modern (more so than some tier 1 manufacturers).  Our owner has been working with Chinese suppliers for 25 years and has developed very good relationships.  We have an in-house engineering department that works collaboratively with the Chinese factories and engineers on product development, tire design and product testing.  This ensures product quality and consistency.  Dynamic Tire, in Canada, and Husky Tire, in the U.S., are responsible for administering product warranty issues on behalf of the manufactures.  This includes the original tread life and through the second retread on most brands.  Yes, we are one of the few distributors that stands behind their Chinese product.  There are many traders that you can't find when it comes to warranty.

Through our retread facilities we have gather data on all brands of tires we have retreaded/rejected from tier 1 down to tier 4.  We have non-retreadable tire data on over 50,000 casings.  You (and Ms. Fisher) would be surprised at the quality of Chinese truck tires.  Based on the data collected, there are some tier 1 brands that experience some workmanship and material defects that tier 3 & 4 brands do not.  We can speak from experience because our retreading customers are primarily the same dealers who purchase the Chinese manufactured tires from us.  We do not hesitate to retread any of the brands we sell.  We would be glad to take some of the casings that Ms. Fisher has referred to as disposable.  Any fleet that has taken that position is foolish in my opinion.  If the casing is deemed sound by proper inspection techniques and will last for the life of the retread, it is a retreadable casing as far as I am concerned regardless of brand.  I think you would agree.

On behalf of retreaders throughout North America, let's all do one another a favor, don't simply dismiss Chinese casings as non-retreadable, perform the proper inspection and retread what is retreadable.  We are all sadly mistaken if we think that the Chinese manufactured tires are going away.  As Ms. Fisher indicates, the quality will continue to improve.

Sincerely and Passionately,

Al 'ACE' Eagleson
Director, Commercial Truck Products
DYNAMIC TIRE CORPORATION
Office 905-595-5558 x671
Cell 416-315-9391
Email: AEagleson@dynamictire.com
www.dynamictire.com

A PS FROM HARVEY: I understand that the above from Al might be considered controversial but the reason we are presenting it is because we believe it is our job to present as much information as possible to our members and other readers of our memos so that they can have all sides of a story. In summary, I have always been happy to be  member of the Giraffe Society, meaning I am not afraid to stick my neck out when I believe it is the right thing to do. Your comments are always welcomed. They can be sent to info@retreadtire.org or you can contact me by telephone at 831-646-5269.

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