Peerless Block and Brick Co is a West Virginia company manufacture brick and cement blocks for commercial and residential use. They have 8 Clark forklifts transporting bricks on pallets from the facility to the stocking yard. The condition of the road condition are cement, gravel, and dirt.

The first 2-3 years, they used solids tires but switch to pnuematic tires due the road conditions. The brand that was used were G brand, S band from Sri Lanka and S brand from China. The customer had problems with all of them. The outter rubber (skin) part of the tires (sidewall) would bubble up after 100 hrs. The blister would be as large as a basketball. The tires were still fully inflated while the sidewall bubbles up. After switching over to Westlake, the customer really like the Westlake tires. The tires are holding up well and the tires still look new.

This company operates 6 days a week,57 hours per week (228 hours per month / 2736 hours per year), the customer believes that they currently getting at least 2000-2500 hours on Westlake for equipment.  They said that this equipment as been running at least a year to a year and half on the Westlake.

Overall, Westlake forklift tires is superior compared to all the competition.

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