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

General · Jun 23, 2018

Tire Stewardship BC Establishes Don Blythe Scholarship

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...

Industry · Sep 26, 2016

Safety Alert On two occasions, the shop was airing up a tire and it blew off the rim at around 90 psi. The tires had been placed inside a certifi...

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...

General · Jan 8, 2015

SAFETY ALERT! In April 2014, a large construction company was fined more than $180,000 under the Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulations...