Joy Kopcha

Managing editor, Modern Tire Dealer

After more than a dozen years working as a newspaper reporter in Kansas, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, Joy Kopcha joined Modern Tire Dealer as senior editor in 2014. She has covered murder trials, a prison riot and more city council, county commission, and school board meetings than she cares to remember.

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Chabill's Tire & Auto Service
Brakes, Tire & Wheel

Lousiana tire shop's wheel-off avoidance strategy: zero tolerance

Sept. 23, 2024
After a wheel-off incident 20 years ago, Chabill’s Tire & Auto Service implemented new torque requirements and an instant termination policy for whoever doesn't follow them.