However, TIA is opposed to GROW AMERICA's Section 4112, which would require tire dealers and distributors to maintain tire registration records and transmit the information electronically to tire manufacturers at no cost to the consumer.
TIA has urged its members to write their federal legislators opposing Section 4112 since its introduction in May, and it now asking its member to oppose S. 1741 as well.
There are major efforts in Congress to add mandatory tire registration language to other highway funding bills as well. In a July 13 press release issued jointly by TIA and the New York Tire Dealers Association (NYTDA), tire dealers were told that the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection of the Senate Commerce Committee is pushing the full committee to include a mandatory tire registration provision in its highway bill.