IC Tire Purchase Program

I'd like to share my experience with the NEW tire purchase program...

According to Crossroads you can purchase Goodyear or Michelin tires at any TA, Petro, Loves, or dealer. The tire estimator will give you prices on Bridgestone and Yokohama as well, but you can't buy those. More on that in a sec. At least that's what it said last Thursday when I went to the TA in Binghamton NY to purchase two new steer tires. I only had 90k on mine but a belt started to separate on the passenger one and caused some wierd wear pattern...

So the TA had no clue what I was talking about. They called Schneider SEM and they didn't have a clue either. I called SEM and they had no clue what to do, even though one of the options under emergency maintenance referenced the IC Tire program. They said the TA should know. So I hung up, called right back, got a different person, who said to call Doug Loy, who runs the program. I had dealt with Doug before on some other issues with my lease trucks, nice guy. Luckily he answered the phone and told me the truth about the program...

You can only purchase Goodyear and Michelin tires from a DEALER, NOT a truck stop. Apparently when the program was first rolled out all the truck stops were on board, but they quickly realized they couldn't invoice the IC's correctly, so they pulled out of the program.

You cannot buy any other tire at Schneider's national account price.

And the tire estimator is 100% correct on the price you pay. I wound up getting two Goodyear steers, because Binghamton does not have a Michelin dealer, for right around $800.

So that's the skinny on the tire purchase program....

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Correct on all counts.....

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ANY Goodyear tire dealer and ANY Michelin tire dealer. Most tire shops are affiliated with certain tire companies....

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