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Love s plans to add over 30 stores in 2021 with Truck Care/Speedco services
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OKLAHOMA CITY Love s Travel Stops & Country Stores plans to open as many as 50 travel stops in 2021, including more than 30 with Love s Truck Care or Speedco preventive maintenance and tire services on site.
The expansion plan builds on a challenging 2020, when the Oklahoma City-based company opened 38 truck-servicing plazas with over 3,000 parking spaces and donated several million dollars to fight COVID-19, injustice and poverty and to help sick and injured children. 2020 was difficult, but our teams worked together to open new locations, add parking spaces and serve customers despite the pandemic, Love s President Shane Wharton said.
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OKLAHOMA CITY Love s Travel Stops opened three Travel Stops in recent weeks with Speedco truck maintenance services on site, increasing the number of locations with Love s Truck Care or Speedco services to over 400.
Love s claims its Truck Care and Speedco network, with over 1,500 maintenance bays, is the nation s largest preventive maintenance and truck care network.
The new locations are in:
Mayer, Ariz., along I-17 about 65 miles north of Phoenix;
Boron, Calif., along State Route 58 about 40 miles west of Barstow; and
Madison, Ga., along I-20 about 50 miles east of Atlanta.
Love s recently changed the name of its truck maintenance network to
Purcell acquires Quality Tire, joins Michelin commercial network
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POTOSI, Mo. Purcell Tire & Rubber Co., long allied with Goodyear in both new tires and retreads, has acquired Quality Tire Co. of Salt Lake City and joined the Michelin Commercial Service Network (MCSN).
Potosi-based
Purcell acquired Quality Tire in December, adding that dealership s nine commercial outlets and three retread plants a Michelin Retread Technologies plant in Hudson, Colo., and Oliver Rubber system plants in Billings, Mont., and Salt Lake City to its existing commercial holdings.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Purcell also has converted its own retread plants in Phoenix and Potosi to the MRTI system.