The selling of used tires provides a living for lots of people; it works well in the big cities or in the poor ones.

Collecting used tires here and there, and then selling them to the little shops or small mechanics where they resell them to drivers hungry to save money buying those used tires.

Some have very old little trucks and they drive around searching for tires including the junk yard where they load the trucks and go around supplying the surrounding used tire shops.

The great untold history about this is that lots of unemployed, uneducated, minority groups make their living doing just that and no matter how you slice it, it is a great feeling for anyone to be able to make honest money, even if is not that much it still helps a lot. It is also an unnoticed market that helps clean the cities a little by collecting the used tires.

To illustrate this for you just think about the 5 cent rebate on the cans, this creates a wave of more or less the same people on the big city streets, collecting and making a little of money especially the homeless and minority population.

The same concept applies here and is a great help for many in need. Because all of this goes unnoticed for many of us I like to call this the beautiful untold history at least in my judgment.