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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

The Company sells products and pays commissions to companies controlled by persons related to the chief executive officer of the Company.  The related party is Mr. Fred Taylor, Mr. Maurice Taylor’s brother.  The companies which Mr. Fred Taylor is associated with that do business with Titan include the following:  Blackstone OTR, LLC; FBT Enterprises; Green Carbon, INC; and OTR Wheel Engineering.  Sales of Titan products to these companies were approximately $0.7 million and $0.6 million for the first quarter of 2015 and 2014, respectively. Titan had trade receivables due from these companies of approximately $0.4 million at March 31, 2015, and approximately $0.2 million at December 31, 2014.  On other sales referred to Titan from the above manufacturing representative companies, commissions were approximately $0.6 million and $0.7 million during the first quarter of 2015 and 2014, respectively. Titan had purchases from these companies of approximately $0.7 million for the three months ended March 31 2014.

The Company has a 34.2% equity stake in Wheels India Limited, a company incorporated in India and listed on the National Stock Exchange in India. The Company had trade payables due to Wheels India of approximately $0.0 million and $0.1 million at March 31, 2015, and December 31, 2014, respectively.