need cheap drive tires

What he said... good advice.

1 mpg could lose you $10K a year in fuel. Cheap tires still look cheap?

 

Ebay is not bad. If you have a place to store them etc.

My two cents..

I gave up on lugged tires. I don't know how they benefit in any way. In mud or sand the lugs just filled up and didn't do any good. I use a hercules S 203 for drives and BF Goodrich ST230 for steers. I picked up .5mpg leaving BF Goodrich DR424 lugged drives. There is nothing wrong with them, little noisy. The price of diesel that was up a year or so ago and our business is slow so I switched over the lugs for highway tires searching for better mpg. I don't see me going back to lugged drives. As stated before, just an opinion.

 

how do you find out the rolling resisitance of different brands of tires?

 

I'm with sandman1976. How do you figure out the rolling resistance of a tire?

 

i've purchased capitol,road master & ling long in the past year for under 300 per tire,but i think ohtsu or summitomo are the cheapest hard compound tire u can buy in the market today.

 

their is a tire chart over at CDLOFIT.c o m under the tools header

 

Michelin has a chart on their truck tire website. Lists all brands.

 

Here ,I hope this helps tire rolling resistance,www.Americamovesbytruck.com

 

it use to be called the coleman campsite now its facebook is it new not at all but it still works

 

Yeah me too. however I have a set of 8 lugs on my drives now. went from lugs to hywy tread back to lugs, next going back to hywy tread again.I think! here is my take on the tire decision. with my lugs, kelly kda they lasted 315,000 miles. but had a bounce to them, not a comfortable ride, & m.p.g. were a lil less too. paid at that time $2700 for the 8. when time came for replacing I went to steelmark hywy tires all 8 installed mount/dismount, f.e.t. everything total was $2000.70 my m.p.g. improved, but had more penetration of the tires, nails, e.t.c. about 5-6 tire repairs over the life of the 8 tires. where the lugs being so thick, maybe 2-3 penetrations from road debri. the hywy tires did not last as long as the lugs. had to be replaced sooner. went with the intention of going back to hywy & at that time, the economy was just into the recession & my local dealer said he could'nt give tires away. he offered the kelly kda's to me at below his cost to keep inventory moving & keep workers busy. got 8 kda's for $2400.00 and that was with f.e.t. mount/dismount, all new valve stems. total paid $2400.00 it is true better m.p.g. will save you more in the end. for me I will sum it up this way. if I save $ 15.00- $40.00 a week in fuel, I probably will not notice it, because it comes incrementally. I'll spend it as I save it. now when I had the hiwy tires & they lasted about 140.000 miles or so, I thought now I have to fork out $2500.00-$3500.00 for 8 new where if I had the lugs, I would only be 1/2 way to replacing them, saving me approx $3000.00 right then. so do I want to spend $15.00- $40.00 more per week in fuel, or break out $3000.00 at once sooner? the longevity of lugs is why I have them. I hope you can follow my logic on this. I want a hwy tire that gets great m.p.g. rides good & lasts like a lug.