Article: 'Madame President' Peggy Fisher takes over the gavel for Tire Industry Association.(News)

Byline: Miles Moore

Peggy Fisher, incoming president of the Tire Industry Association (TIA), is acknowledged throughout the tire industry as one of its foremost experts on truck tires and tire management for truck fleets.

This was not, however, exactly the career she planned for herself.

In the mid-1970s, Ms. Fisher-a New Jersey native who had moved to northeast Ohio to pursue a business degree at Kent State University-was working for a trucking company, doing its licensing and permitting.

"I was looking for a more secure place to work, so I left the other firm and landed at Roadway Express as a supervisor in the licensing and ...

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