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Had to play a little bit of catch up since my last post. First, I want to acknowledge your fear/dislike of retreaded tires. So I don't want anyone to think that I'm just ignoring your opinions on the matter. But, I feel that people are solely focusing on the "cost savings" of recapping over virgin tires. Their also exists quite a few environmental reasons why retreads are preferred over virgin tires.
We know that retreads are used on fleet trucks, school buses, city buses, airplanes, etc. So if they are used on all of these different types of vehicles why do we not hear more about them? I'll give 250 internets to anyone whom can find me a news report involving a commercial airline tire's retread coming apart. Same thing applies to a city bus tire, or a school bus tire.
All of these different vehicles use retreads, but we only see failure on fleet trucks (usually). Why? Because of improper maintenance and inadequate safety checks. If installed properly, and inflated correctly, a retread should have the same life if not longer life than a virgin tire.
We should not be signing a petition to outlaw retreads, because I'm sorry but that won't happen any time soon. Due to trucker unions and the economical impact it would have on the free market, as I've brought up before. If you are looking to make a difference, and to solve this problem, you want to find a way to change how the trucking industry operates. More frequent safety checks, fines for improper equipment, etc. Something that would cause truckers to measure twice and cut once. Better safe than sorry.
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