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Treadco and Goodyear To Form New Company.

Arkansas Best Corp. subsidiary, Treadco Inc., has entered into a joint venture with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. to form the world's largest network of new truck tire sales, service and retread manufacturing centers.

The combined operation will be called Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems LLC. The transaction is expected to close by Oct. 31, pending Federal Trade Commission approval

Treadco is the largest independent commercial truck tire dealer and the largest independent truck tire retreader in the U.S., with 59 production and sales locations. Goodyear opera

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