Well I’m sorry to say that you are 100% wrong. The tire works, and why would you be talking with me about tires instead of our VP of OTR sales, Paul Hawkins. If I have been B.S.-ing my way into the tire industry, we’ve done a fair job. Plus you wouldn’t know B.S. from facts. I can build a tire, can you? I’m sorry if I was rude to you. If I talked with you, I should have known what a sensitive man you are. You are correct, I can swear; but I do not use the Lord’s name in vain. I keep it to man’s special four letters. I don’t plan on leaving for a long time, so I hope you are a young guy and I sign my name to what I say and do.

Morry Taylor

I appreciate your attempt to compose a story based on something you read from another storyteller. Now I’ll give you the opportunity to analyze my statements. You should help our President — he needs the help, but first let me give you some facts.

For the Bloomberg story, the young reporter traveled to Fort McMurray, I assume, because that is where the oil sands are. He didn’t talk to anyone from a mining company; he talked with a tire dealer who represents Michelin and Bridgestone. Did you know there is only one tire dealer, and that dealer represents both companies? This same dealer was serving all tires at a majority of the mines. This dealer wanted to represent Titan also, which would be a 100% monopoly. The mining company, however, wanted to deal directly with Titan, with no kickbacks to dealer. The other tire companies are now dealing directly with mines, but returning a fee to the dealer.

This may shock you, but the first giant OTR tires Titan shipped had sensors in them to track air pressure and temperature information, and then transmit the information electronically to an Internet location. These tires ran over 4,000 hours. The competitors were running approximately 5,000 hours. Did you know the first failure was a result of the wrong bead seat band used on the wheel? The band was 4” wide, which is not to be used on any 63” tire. Titan tires have 6.75” beads. This means failure in a short time. You, my friend, can guess whether it was an accident or on purpose.

Titan put some sensors in additional tires. Through the data, we were able to show the mine the point at which the truck stopped and one tire’s air pressure dropped to 20 PSI. The truck started up and the tire heated up, driving pressure up. There was no other pressure lost. You guess what happened, my friend.

As chairman and CEO, I like to see Titan products in the field. I don’t sit in an office and make orders. I’m not a union buster. Titan management runs its factories, not a union committee.

You mention I would not name the dealer. You are correct. Why should I? If you knew anything of the oil sands or if you talked to Michelin or Bridgestone, you would know.

The design of Titan’s 63” is great. Did we build it to be robust? Yes. Did we build it too robust? Yes. Did we change fast? Yes. Is heat the biggest problem? Yes. Do Titan competitors have problems? Yes. They are working to improve and so are we.

No one makes more mistakes than me, but I don’t repeat them and I don’t blame others. I just recognize the problem and move to eliminate it. In the oil sands we have a dealer who will grow over time to be the best, and Titan will help him.

In closing, if you ever want to visit one of our factories, let me know.

From the Columbia Basin Herald article above:

Wren pointed out a new substation and transmission line at the port was not built for the Washington Tire project. Instead it came out of discussions in 2006 with the Grant County PUD. The decision was made after Katana started and the PUD discovered the north substation was almost at capacity.

It seems this was part of a public utility upgrade.

Thanks for reading.

Thanks for your kind words. I’m not out to “slaughter” anyone. It’s just that much of what WTC has to say doesn’t make sense, economic or otherwise.

As to Amerityre, I don’t know all that much about them. They may well take care of themselves, as I see they have filed an intent to delist with NASDAQ.

Thanks for reading, and have a good one.

Next, could you slaughter Amerityre Corporation? This is a company with Le Iacocca as a spokesperson, and presumably an investor, that has lost more money than their total sales for years?! I really think they have some good ideas, but don’t you have to show a profit someday?

We have seen some local activity with the installation of a new substation and installation of new high power line poles-no wire

Any information you could provide would be very helpful

Thank you

The links at the top have been updated to reflect the changes suggested.

Thank you.

The codes were lifted verbatim from the decree that the White House sent out. Sorry we couldn’t help you. The US Government is the one that issued this statement, not us.