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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block] RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
 
The Company sells products and pays commissions to companies controlled by persons related to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, Mr. Maurice Taylor. The related party is Mr. Fred Taylor, who is Mr. Maurice Taylor’s brother. The companies with which Mr. Fred Taylor is associated that do business with Titan include the following: Blacksmith OTR, LLC; F.B.T. Enterprises, Inc.; Green Carbon, Inc.; Silverstone, Inc.; and OTR Wheel Engineering, Inc.  Sales of Titan products to these companies were approximately $0.3 million for each of the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018. Titan had trade receivables due from these companies of approximately $0.1 million at March 31, 2019, and approximately $0.2 million at December 31, 2018.  Sales commissions paid to the above companies were approximately $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019, as compared to $0.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018.
 
In July 2013, the Company entered into a Shareholders’ Agreement with OEP and RDIF to acquire Voltyre-Prom. Mr. Richard M. Cashin Jr., a director of the Company, is the President of OEP, which owns 21.4% of the joint venture.  The Shareholders’ Agreement contained a settlement put option which potentially required the Company to purchase equity interests in the joint venture from OEP and RDIF at a value set by the agreement. On January 8, 2019, the Company received notification of exercise of the put option from OEP. See Note 9 for additional information.