BestDrive LLC, a commercial tire dealer and retreader focusing on Continental tire offerings, celebrated the opening of four locations in the second half of 2018, including its first store in Oklahoma.
Established in 2010, BestDrive now has 28 commercial tire centers across the United States. Oklahoma marks the company’s 15th U.S. state.
The company celebrated the ribbon cutting of its 25,000 sq.-ft. location in Oklahoma City on Nov. 6. The location will provide new tires and services for customers in the greater Oklahoma City area, as well as supplying ContiTread retread tires produced in the Dallas retread plant.
“I’m excited to be on the ground floor of BestDrive coming to the Oklahoma City market,” says Tracy Crane, store operations manager. “We pride ourselves on our product – Continental, General Tire, ContiTread products, and others – and most of all, our focus on customer service. We are here to help!”
The following day, the company inaugurated its location in Longview, Texas. The service center is located just five minutes from Texas I-20 and is centrally located on South Loop 281 to serve local East Texas fleets. It will provide new tires, services, and ContiTread retread tires produced in the Dallas retread plant.
In the second half of 2018, BestDrive also acquired a service center in Marietta, Ga., to support its Forest Park retread plant, and opened a sales office in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to support its retread plant in Salt Lake City.
“BestDrive offers best-in-class service to fleet customers large and small,” says Sonny Simpson, managing director of BestDrive. “With these additional locations in Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, and Idaho, we are able to serve our customers more efficiently and ensure fleets across the country can experience LODC: Lowest Overall Driving Cost.”
BestDrive plans to inaugurate additional locations in Texas, California, and Arkansas in the near future, bringing the company’s presence to a total of 17 U.S. states by the end of first quarter 2019.
“BestDrive’s continued expansion allows us to better serve our long haul, regional haul, and on/off-road fleet customers,” says Steve Postel, Continental’s director of retail for the Americas region. “Continental is committed to giving fleets convenient access to the latest technology, from carefully engineered tires to matching retreads, as well as digital tire monitoring technology to help fleets reduce costs and extend the life of their tires.”
