DETROIT ARSENAL, Mich.—Driving safely on icy roads can be challenging, not to mention frightening, even perilous. Having proper tire traction can make all the difference in avoiding a crash and ...

A 10-week strike of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. workers is creating a shortage of Humvee tires used by the military overseas, according to the outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

WAUSAU, Wis. — A team of mechanical engineers funded by the Pentagon has an idea for saving the lives of troops in Iraq: An airless tire that won’t go flat if shot or hit by shrapnel from a roadside ...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Wausau, Wis., company have come up with a 37-inch, bullet and bomb-proof Humvee tire based on a polymeric web so cool looking there's no need for hub caps.

High demand for run-flat wheels for U.S. military Humvees in Iraq is keeping the U.S. subsidiary of a French industrial firm working at top speed. Trenton-based Hutchinson Industries Inc., a ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Jan. 30, 2007) — Michelin North America Inc.'s BFGoodrich brand has won a $10.7 million contract to supply the U.S. military with tires for the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled ...