We are proud to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of Roadrunner Rubber!
Since 1968, we’ve been hand-crafting “The World’s Toughest Forklift Tire” in our Houston, TX plant. A lot has changed in 50 years, but what hasn’t changed is our commitment to quality and our customers!
In 50 years, we’ve manufactured and installed thousands of forklift tires and shipped them all over the world and the United States. From Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine we keep you rolling!
With a 50 year legacy of quality and commitment, let us help you build your legacy today!
Don’t wait! Get your FREE QUOTE and let us help keep your machines rolling for another 50 years!
And while we stay focused on producing quality tires today, and manufacturing quality for the future, let’s take a brief look back at a few of the events from the year of our founding.
- Mattel Introduces Hot Wheels toy cars
- Green Bay Packers defeat Oakland Raiders 33-14 in Super Bowl II
- Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In premiers on NBC
- Tet Offensive begins during Vietnam War
LBJ announces he will not seek re-election/signs Civil Rights Act of 1968- 2001: A Space Odyssey premiers
- Planet of the Apes released in Theaters
- Martin Luther King assassinated
- The Beatles announce creation of Apple records and release the White Album
- Bobby Unser Wins Indy 500
- Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy shot & killed at Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
- Computer chip maker Intel is founded
- Republican National Convention nominates Richard Nixon for US President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President
- Last steam passenger train service runs in Britain
- Night of the Living Dead Premiers in US
- Detroit Tigers defeat St. Louis Cardinals in 1968 World Series
- NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission
- XIX Olympic Games held in Mexico City
- Former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis
- Elvis Presley makes his concert return with If I Can Dream
- Apollo 8 enters lunar orbit
- Led Zeppelin make their American debut in Denver, CO