Are you choosing or chancing?

We don’t often use the word “chancing” nowadays, but it means “leaving the outcome to chance.” And, because not making a decision is a decision – a decision to do nothing, it is the opposite of choosing.

In this issue of Real Answers, we look at choices – and their consequences. First, we’ll examine “CSA” (formerly called “CSA 2010”), and see how these new safety rules may affect the choices you need to make regarding your tires, your drivers and the choices shippers may make about you based on your choices about your tires and drivers.

We’ll also spend some time with Fleetway Transport, Inc. of Brantford, Ontario, and learn how the choices it has made over the past 80 years or so have kept it flourishing, even through today’s trucking troubles. And, how Fleetway has chosen to outsource its tire work, while continuing to make its own tire choices.

We’ll see some new choices in the Greatec wide base single line, and how they provide more flexibility for you. And, we’ll learn how Bridgestone engineers chose to deliberately allow irregular wear in one tiny part of a tread, thereby preventing it in the rest of it.

At Bridgestone’s Warren County, Tennessee plant, thousands of school kids learn that you don’t have to choose between ecology and industry, and that both can flourish side-by-side.

We’ll learn how choosing the right retread can save even more money by providing better fuel economy, and how choosing a bigger or smaller tire can affect your speedometer, odometer and transmission.

We’ll finish with stories on why choosing the right inflation pressure is so important, and why a motorcyclist chose a giant Greatec tire for his motorcycle – and how that has affected his ride.