Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC, part of Bridgestone Corp., is an American company located in Nashville, TN, that manufactures and markets car and truck tires. R. Gordon Knapp has been the CEO of the firm since 2014. On August 28, 2018 Dickinson Fleet Services LLC, now part of Cox Enterprises, Inc. acquired Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC from Bridgestone Corp.\nThe company says this about itself: Nashville, Tennessee-based Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (BATO) is a business unit of Bridgestone Americas, Inc., whose parent company, Bridgestone Corporation, is a global leader in tires and rubber, building on its expertise to provide solutions for safe and sustainable mobility. Reporting into the BATO business unit are the company's Latin American tire operations; the U.S. and Canadian consumer and commercial tire businesses; and Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC, which operates the largest network of company-owned automotive service centers in the world. BATO develops, manufactures, and markets Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand tires. The business unit is focused on retail, wholesale and original equipment markets, supplying passenger, light truck, commercial vehicle, off-the-road, motorcycle, agricultural and other tires, as well as retreads, to its customers in the Americas.