December 1, 2025: Tire Business, a publication that reports on tire related stories, reports that the Safe Tread Alliance (STA), a coalition of industry leaders and safety advocates, is advocating replacing the “Penny Test” with the “Quarter Test” for tire replacement – that is a change to 4/32nds as the standard removal level. The Penny Test results […]

Tire failure on a schoolbus leads to the death of an eighth grade student. Revision: The link below is to a more up-to=date news article Page A1 | Post and Courier Columbia E-Paper /end revision The news reported that back in April, 2025, a schoolbus suffered a front tire failure, flipped and killed an 8th […]

This is the first of a series utilizing this new format. This one is about how much can be revealed simply by reading recall documents. 19 October, 2025: Yesterday, I got a notice from NHTSA about a tire recall. The company is not important, but they were recalling several sizes of tires, all from the […]