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Belgrade, Montana
The Purcell commercial store at 246 Briar Pl #2 in Belgrade serves trucks, fleets and off-highway equipment in southwest Montana. Six services, all nine tire categories, and 24-hour roadside assistance.
Purcell has two locations in Montana, and they are a long way apart. Belgrade covers the southwest; Billings covers the south central and east.
Belgrade is the commercial one. It handles trucks, trailers, fleets and off-highway equipment, and it does not do brakes, oil changes, A/C or engine work. For those, Billings is the Montana store.
Both carry every tire category, which matters more in a state this size than it would where the next Purcell shelf is an hour away.
Services
Montana winters are hard on tires and harder on the decisions around them.
Cold air drops pressure, and an under-inflated tire runs hot, wears unevenly and is considerably more likely to fail. Checking pressure cold, through the winter rather than once at the start of it, costs nothing and prevents more failures than anything else on this page.
The second is about response. A unit that stops in winter is a unit stopping somewhere exposed, which is a reason to call early rather than to drive on a tire that is going. Running a tire flat also destroys the casing, which turns a repairable problem into a replacement that has to come a long way.
Belgrade collects casings for the Purcell program. The retreading itself happens at a plant, the nearest being Boise, Idaho or Salt Lake City, Utah.
Distance makes the case stronger rather than weaker: out here, a replacement tire is the slowest thing to arrive, so a sound casing is worth protecting. See retreading.
Montana's two Purcell locations are not interchangeable, and knowing which does what saves a long drive.
Belgrade handles the equipment and the trucks. Billings handles those too, and adds everything a car or light truck needs. For a business in the southwest with mixed vehicles, that usually means the working units are dealt with here and anything needing brake, engine or air conditioning work goes east.
For a fleet that runs between the two, the sensible arrangement is one account covering both, so the specifications and the records do not split by geography.
Nearby
See the Montana locations page.
Questions
Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. 24-hour roadside assistance covers commercial units outside those hours.
Tires, yes, and the store carries every category. General repair, no: brakes, oil changes, A/C and engine work are at Billings.
Yes. OTR services covers fitting, change-outs and repairs on off-highway tires, and the store carries OTR tires.
More often than in summer. Cold air lowers pressure, and an under-inflated tire runs hot and wears badly. Check it cold, and check it through the season rather than once at the start.
To a Purcell plant, the nearest being Boise or Salt Lake City. Belgrade collects them, so you deal with the store rather than the plant.
Call (406) 388-2710, or send a quote request and it will reach John Jones's team.