Interpretation ID: nht79-4.52

DATE: 09/13/79

FROM: L. R. SCHNEIDER -- NHTSA; SIGNATURE BY DAVID SCHMELTZER

TO: Market Tire Company

TITLE: FMVSR INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letter to Dave Schmeltzer of this office dated August 11, 1971.

In your letter you ask to be advised if it would be permissible under the Tire Identification and Record Keeping Regulation (49 CFR 574) to use your own form, instead of the form supplied by the tire manufacturer, to report the required information to the tire manufacturer.

The regulation does not expressly provide that you must use the form supplied by the tire manufacturer to record the required information. However, from the manufacturer's point of view using a form other than the one he supplied would cause double work and extra expense. As the regulation is presently written this would be a matter between you and the manufacturer.

The problem you describe has been brought to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's attention and methods of giving dealers who handle many different tire manufacturer's lines some relief are presently being considered.

THANK YOU FOR WRITING.