How to buy a tire from Purcell
Start with the size on the sidewall. It is the first thing any store will ask for, and reading it off before you call saves a round trip of guessing.
Say what the machine does, not just what it is. A loader on sharp rock and a loader in a stockpile yard want different rubber. A pickup towing every weekend is not the same purchase as a pickup that commutes.
Ask what the store actually has. Stock varies by location. The counts above say how many locations carry a category, not which sizes are on the shelf today.
Ask about the casing. On commercial, agricultural and OTR tires, the casing outlives the tread. Retreading through Purcell's seven plants is often the largest saving available, and it starts with not scrapping a sound casing.
Brands
Purcell works with 14 tire brands: Michelin, BFGoodrich, Goodyear, Continental, Bridgestone, Firestone, Uniroyal, Cooper, Titan, Starfire, Roadmaster, Yokohama, Maxam and Mastertrack. The brands page covers each one and how Purcell supplies it.
Fitting, balancing and the rest
Buying the tire is half of it. Tire and wheel balancing is offered at 51 locations, car and light truck alignment at 40, heavy-duty truck alignment at 40, and trailer alignment at 36. Fitting a new set over an alignment problem is how a fleet buys the same tires twice.
Where the categories are not carried
Seven Purcell locations carry no tires at all: the retread plants, which work on casings rather than selling tires. The other 57 locations, including the five that hold distribution stock, carry tires.
Beyond that, the exceptions are specific rather than general, and each tire page names them. The two consumer stores stock only the four light vehicle categories. Two commercial stores, in Elko, NV and Albuquerque, NM, skip the light vehicle categories entirely. Anchorage, Fairbanks and Elko carry no industrial tires, and in Alaska only the Wasilla distribution location carries tracks.