Testing rule should give bye to specialty radials.(Opinion)(Brief Article)(Column)

Give Denman Tire Corp. a break. That's what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should do by exempting specialty radial tires from new tire testing provisions.

Specialty radials are different from other radials, and Denman is unlike other tire makers.

NHTSA shouldn't turn a deaf ear to Denman's claim if it has to test specialty radials under the new standards it will go out of business. This is not hysteria-it's reality.

Denman is not a billion-dollar tire company cranking out millions of passenger and truck tires, it's a small-scal