Looking Back 100 Years: United States Tires

CCJ Staff (CCJ)

Jan 21, 2014

Tires were already a major cost and concern for truck fleets by 1914, as this ad for United States Tires demonstrates.

Click through to see other images from trucking a century ago.

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