5.8.14.1Vertical

Commercial Truck & Bus Tire Manufacturers

Producers of heavy-duty tires for Class 7–8 trucks, trailers, buses, and fleet applications.

Market snapshot

These figures describe Tire Manufacturing (5.8.14), the segment that Commercial Truck & Bus Tire Manufacturers sits within. They are not figures for Commercial Truck & Bus Tire Manufacturers on its own.

Market size
~$23B
Growth
~2.9%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
Companies
~306 firms
Firms by employee count

55.2% of firms have fewer than 20 employees: 169 micro-businesses, below most mandates.

The investable universe137 firms with 20+ employees
20–99
5339%
100–499
4331%
500+
4130%

Few firms, enormous plants, and demand tied to miles driven rather than vehicle sales, which makes it steadier than most of this page. Retreading is the fragmented half and the only genuinely acquirable one: commercial fleets retread on a fixed cycle, and the business is regional by economics.

NAICS 326211, 326212. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.

Business model & economics

Revenue model

OEM and replacement tire sales

Key economics

Revenue per firm
$74,750,915
Revenue per employee
$387,731
Employees per firm
188.0
Recurring revenue
High

recurring replacement-tire demand

EBITDA margin
Capital-intensive; replacement-driven
Capex intensity
High

Characteristics

  • Scale-driven: payroll is only 17% of revenue, so the cost base is assets, not headcount
  • Moderate strategic-buyer pool: 41 firms exceed 500 employees, so a scaled asset has buyers, but not many
  • Dominated by global tire majors.
  • Anchored by non-discretionary replacement demand.
  • EVs an emerging specialized-tire dynamic.

NAICS 326211, 326212. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.

M&A deal context

Deal activityModerate

Who’s acquiring

  • Global tire majors
  • Specialty & retread consolidators
  • PE-backed platforms

What’s driving deals

  • Replacement-market and EV-tire demand.
  • Capacity and capital investment.
  • Specialty and commercial-tire niches.

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