Interpretation ID: aiam3652
President and Chairman of the Board
Western Waste Industries
P. O. Box 214
Gardena
CA 90247;
Dear Mr. Shirvanian: This is in reply to your letter of December 22, 1982, informing us tha the California Highway Patrol has advised one of your divisions to remove certain tires from service for failure to 'display the Department of Transportation's symbol on both sidewalls in violation of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 119 effective March 1, 1975.' You have also stated that the tires are acceptable in all other respects.; Paragraph S6.5(a), requiring use of the DOT symbol on tires covered b the standard specifically states, 'This symbol may be used on only one sidewall.' Therefore, the tires in question would not fail to comply with Standard No. 119 by having the DOT symbol on only one of the two sidewalls.; If there should, in fact, be other items of information missing fro the tires which render them technically noncompliant with the standard, we would be pleased to advise you further.; Sincerely, Frank Berndt, Chief Counsel