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Association updates, industry developments, training announcements, and stories from western Canada’s tire community.

General · Oct 28, 2020

Federated Risk Insights: Battery Fires

Some common ignition sources for fires can occur when vehicles and equipment experience electrical malfunctions at service centres and repair sho...

General · Mar 20, 2020

March 20th, 2020 My fellow independent tire dealers: We certainly are facing a future that has been unprecedented in our lifetimes. Being an inde...

General · Jun 23, 2018

Please note that this scholarship has been discontinued. We are pleased to announce that TSBC has generously added another scholarship to our exi...

General · Jan 29, 2018

Western Canada Tire Dealers is deeply saddened to announce that Olive Storey, former WCTD Executive Director and former owner of Advanx Tire, pas...

General · Jan 8, 2018

We are truly saddened to report that Don Blythe passed away on the evening of January 5th, 2017. Don was a former executive director of Western C...

General · May 3, 2015

Matt White is the much traveled Director of Tire Service at TIA. WCTD recently caught up with him between trips for just long enough to check in...

General · May 1, 2015

Run Over Incident: A tractor/trailer unit had been brought to a dealership for a tire repair on the trailer. The vehicle had been moved to the ba...

General · Apr 14, 2015

Incident: While changing the 4th tire on a water truck in the customer’s yard, the truck slipped off the hydraulic jack, causing it to land on it...

General · Jan 15, 2015

SAFETY ALERT! This safety alert is the result of a fatal accident within our industry, involving an employee who was working on a 3-piece wheel a...