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Boise, Idaho
The Purcell retread plant at 8670 S. Eisenman Rd in Boise is one of seven Purcell retread plants. It retreads and repairs tire casings for commercial, agricultural, OTR and light vehicle applications. This is a plant rather than a store: it does not sell tires or service vehicles.
Retreading puts a new tread onto a casing that still has life in it. The casing, which is the structural part of the tire and the expensive part to manufacture, is inspected, prepared, given new tread rubber, cured and inspected again. A casing that passes comes back as a tire ready to run.
That matters for anyone paying for tires by the set. The tread wears out long before a well-maintained casing does, and a casing that is scrapped at the first wear-out throws away the part that cost the most. Retreading is the main reason a commercial fleet's cost per mile can fall without the fleet buying anything cheaper.
The Boise plant retreads or repairs casings in eight categories:
These are casings the plant works on, not tires it sells. To buy tires in the Boise area, call the Boise commercial and consumer store on the same road.
The plant serves the Purcell stores around it and the fleets those stores look after. In Idaho, casings come in from Boise, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls, each of which lists retreading as a service and collects casings for the program.
Typical senders are freight fleets running regional routes, farms replacing tread on equipment between seasons, and operations running OTR equipment where a single casing is worth protecting. If you are not sure whether your casings qualify, the store you normally deal with can have them inspected.
Talk to the Purcell store you already use. Casings are collected there, sent here, and returned ready to run. Fleets that run with Purcell fleet services usually have this built into their scheduled work, so casings move without anyone having to arrange a trip.
A casing has to be sound to be retreaded. Running a tire flat, even a short distance, usually ends the casing, which is the strongest practical argument for stopping a unit as soon as a tire fails and calling roadside assistance.
Nearby
The other six Purcell retread plants are in Phoenix, AZ, Denver, CO, Potosi, MO, Cleveland, NC, Portland, OR and Salt Lake City, UT.
Questions
No. This is a retread plant, so it retreads and repairs casings rather than selling tires. For tires in Boise, call the commercial and consumer store on the same road at (208) 368-7801.
Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Through the Purcell store you deal with. Boise, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls all collect casings for the program, and the retreading is done here. See Purcell retreading for the full picture.
Commercial, agricultural, OTR, industrial, light truck, passenger, trailer, and UTV and ATV casings.
A retread is built on a casing that has been inspected and found sound, with new tread rubber applied and cured. Commercial fleets, school districts and freight operators have run retreads for decades, which is the practical answer. The store you deal with can walk through what suits the work your tires do.
Call (208) 336-7877, or ask the Purcell store you already use about getting casings into the program.