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Tim Miller has been with Goodyear for over 35 years. He spent 8 years as a tire design engineer before taking positions as a technical representative to original equipment customers (Freightliner, Paccar, Volvo and Mack) and later as a technical rep to several large commercial tire customers (Penske, UPS and Yellow Freight). After 5 years in commercial tire sales (account executive to national account fleets), he returned for a second stint in the commercial tire marketing department.

Answer:

Is this a trick question? The real question should be why is it cheaper to run retreads than new tires?

To that question I would answer the following: A comparable retread costs about 1/3 as much as a new tire tire. With today's technology, the miles per 32nd are very, very similar for like tread designs (but, sometimes the tread depth of a retread is less than a similar new tire). If retreading is done on a quality casing (premium brand tire, that has been kept at an acceptable inflation pressure for the load it was carrying), there is no reason it can not perform at the same level as a new tire.

Equal performance for 1/3 the cost.