Of Trucks, Tires ... and Antietam

May 11, 2016

IMI conducted road tests from its new headquarters facility to demonstrate the "ride smoothing" performance of its new Equal Flexx tire balancing beads product. Yet being that the company's new home is but a short half hour drive or so from the Civil War battlefield of Antietam - the single bloodiest day in American history - we couldn't help but stop in for a short visit to one of the more hallowed swaths of ground in the eastern half of the country. (All photos by Sean Kilcarr/Fleet Owner)

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Sean Kilcarr | Editor in Chief

Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.

 

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