COLUMBIA, Miss. — Southern Tire Mart has added truck tire service and truck maintenance at six Pilot Flying J travel stops in four states in recent weeks, expanding the network of Southern Tire Mart at Pilot Flying J (STMP) service locations to 70 with plans to reach 85 by year-end.
Columbia, Miss.-based Southern Tire Mart, the largest independent commercial tire dealership in North America, struck a deal in January 2021 with Pilot Travel to take over the management of truck care maintenance facilities at 35 Pilot Flying J locations that offered them, and pledged at that time to open as many as 100 more such facilities over time.
The new truck care centers are located at Pilot Flying J travel centers in:
- North Platte, Neb.;
- Pembroke, N.Y.;
- Mount Airy, N.C.; and
- Corsicana, Junction and Van, Texas
To date, Southern Tire Mart has added truck care services at 20 Pilot Flying J travel centers in 2024.
STMP facilities are staffed with certified technicians and offer a range of standard truck and lube services, as well as retail and national account sales. Services offered include tire repair/replacement, alignments, belt/tensioner inspections, wheel-end assemblies, etc.
At the same time, STM has opened a commercial tire service location in San Marcos, Calif., a city of 95,000 residents located 35 miles north of San Diego. It's the 23rd STM outlet in California.