MUSCATINE, Iowa (May 4, 2010)—Bridgestone Bandag Tire Solutions will increase prices in the U.S. on its Firestone- and Dayton-brand truck tires up to 6 percent June 1.
Additionally the company, a division of Bridgestone Americas, raised prices up to 6 percent May 1 on Bandag retread material prices in the U.S.
The company cited “unrelenting escalation of costs outside of our control for energy, fuel and raw materials” as the cause of the increase.
Bridgestone last raised prices on truck tires Sept. 1, 2008, raising them by up to 10 percent at that time in the U.S. and Canada.