OKLAHOMA CITY -- Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores has added nine truck tire care centers to travel stops across the nation in October.
Love's plans to add 50 truck tire care centers to current locations as a part of its 2011 planned capital expenditures of $230 million. All new Love's locations will be built with a Love's Truck Tire Care center onsite.
The new tire care locations are in Richmond, Ky., Oak Creek, Wis., DeMotte, Ind., Skippers, Va., Richmond Hill, Ga., Perrysburg, Ohio, Ottawa, Kansas, Benson, Ariz., and Grayson, Ky.
Love's first tire care center opened in 2008, and today more than 100 tire care centers deliver essential products and services to professional drivers. Love's tire care centers offer new and used tire sales and repair, plus 24-hour roadside assistance to keep professional drivers up and running.
Love's Truck Tire Care centers offer tire alignments, rotations, changes and more. Love's technicians can install or replace anything from antennas to batteries and mudflaps. Each tire care center is strategically located across the country to meet the needs of professional drivers and keep them safe on the road.
Love's Truck Tire Care centers sell Michelin, BFGoodrich, Yokohama and Double Coin truck tires.
Also, last month, Love's announced that Love's Truck Tire Care will now offer service to trucking fleets as part of the Michelin Commercial Service Network. The network delivers service nationwide for trucking fleets at home or on the road with highly trained technicians and professional equipment. Dealers in the network provide a consistent supply of new tires and retreads and 24/7/365 service.
Love's is also offering select Michelin Retread Technologies (MRT) tread designs at its 100 U.S. tire care centers. The MRT process is unique in the retreading industry, using a patented curing technology that provides highly consistent results retread after retread. Love's will offer retreaded tires in trailer and drive tire positions.
"Love's is excited to broaden our relationship with Michelin," said Dan Jensen, director of tire sales and service for Love's. "Drivers trust the Michelin name and know that Love's and Michelin together bring valuable solutions to fleets and owner-operators on the road."
"Love's Truck Tire Care is a welcome addition to Michelin Retread Technologies and the Michelin Commercial Service Network. The Love's shops on highways throughout the country give fleets more options for consistent service and retreads wherever they go," said Bill Guzick, vice president of business development for Michelin Americas Truck Tires. "The Michelin ONCall emergency road-service network now has access to hundreds of additional technicians nationwide who use the same standards and tools to service commercial vehicles."
The addition of Love's Truck Tire Care brings the Michelin Commercial Service Network to more than 400 locations across the United States. Through the Michelin Commercial Service Network, Michelin also provides fleet customers with a comprehensive service package, including online reporting, electronic operating manuals and a full catalog of web-based training on maintenance standards and practices.
Greenville, S.C.-based Michelin designs, manufactures and sells tires for every type of vehicle, including airplanes, automobiles, bicycles, earthmovers, farm equipment, heavy-duty trucks and motorcycles. The company also publishes travel guides, hotel and restaurant guides, maps and road atlases.
Founded in 1964 by Tom Love, Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores is based in Oklahoma City and remains entirely family-owned and operated. With more than 280 locations and 120 tire care centers in 39 states, Love's approximate growth rate is 20 stores per year.
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