Our Story

About Make American Tires Safe Again

Founded by an industry insider who saw the gap from the inside — and paid the price for speaking up.

Our Mission

Why MATSA Exists

To raise awareness about defective tires entering the American market by exposing the gaps that exist in the self-regulation of tire manufacturing. We advocate for stronger government oversight and regulations to ensure safer roads for everyone — while holding those at the plant level accountable for knowingly releasing faulty tires.

Over 11,000 vehicle accidents and more than 500 deaths are linked to faulty tires every year in the United States. These are not manufacturing mistakes. They are the predictable consequence of an industry that polices its own quality with no independent accountability.

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Damaged tire on the road illustrating the danger of faulty tires
First-Hand Experience

Pain Is Love.

MATSA was founded by someone who spent more than a decade working in quality assurance inside the U.S. tire manufacturing industry. What that experience revealed was not isolated mistakes or occasional oversights — it was a systemic pattern of quality issues being managed away rather than fixed.

"It's all about numbers. Quality doesn't matter unless they have to tell a customer."

Reports were raised internally — at every level, from plant management to HR to the head of quality for all tire operations in the United States. One plant failed its own internal product audits for over five years and continued to operate and ship tires without consequence.

After years of raising the flag about quality issues and the internal escalation process that was fundamentally broken, the founder was terminated. Whistleblower retaliation is the industry's way of keeping the silence.

MATSA exists because of that silence — and because the people affected by faulty tires deserve to know what was hidden from them.

What We're Fighting For

Our Three Legislative Goals

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Testify Before Congress

Present a decade of first-hand evidence about quality system failures in U.S. tire manufacturing to federal lawmakers — backed by professional documentation and verifiable incident records.

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Mandatory Independent Audits

Lobby for legislation requiring government or third-party audits of quality systems at all tire manufacturing plants — including mandatory review of internal hold and release records.

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Plant-Level Accountability

Hold individuals at the plant level personally accountable for knowingly approving the release of nonconforming tires — the same accountability standard we apply in aviation and pharmaceuticals.

Milestones

The Road Ahead

We are building this movement step by step. Every signature, share, and story submission moves us closer to the legislative change that will save lives.

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2026 — In Progress

Website Relaunch & Awareness Campaign

Rebuilding and relaunching MATSA's digital presence with automated recall alerts, investigative blogs, and an updated petition.

2026 — In Progress

Petition Drive

Relaunching our Change.org petition with renewed content campaigns, blog posts, and video shorts pushing for signatures and congressional attention.

2026–2027 — Target

Congressional Testimony

Preparing formal testimony for presentation to Congress, backed by professionally documented evidence from a decade of industry experience.

2027+ — Goal

Legislation for Independent Oversight

Advocacy for a bill mandating third-party audits of tire quality systems and meaningful consequences for knowingly releasing defective products.

Ground Zero

South Carolina: The Tire Capital of America

Why this issue hits especially close to home for MATSA.

13Tire manufacturing facilities in South Carolina alone
110,000+Tires produced in SC every single day
12,500SC workers employed in tire manufacturing
$1.7BWorth of tires exported from SC annually to 196 countries