Why are container trailer wheels and tires different?

The cont. co. order the cheapest tire and wheels they can get, its been like that from when all trailers used tube type wheels many years ago

 

Money.

Thats one reason I quit containers among many.

BOOOM! There goes two tires either drives or containers. ...

BOOOM!!! All it has to do is get hot and throw on 120,000 into a 40 foot box.

BOOOM.

money. Cheep cheaper and cheapest towards no one gives a dime. Er darn.

BOOM. Call road service spend a thousand. They slap a 500 dollar tire on there. It will still be on there 20 years and dry rotted.

BOOM.

 

Can haulers have a well earned reputation for not respecting others property (thieves) so the crummy tires are out of self defense.

 

Nah, it's to prevent theft. Nobody wants tube tires on their truck and the rail knows it. Besides, mileage wise, containers don't put many on, mostly rail miles.. BTW, how long you been truckin'? I understand not long, and I don't mean to be rude, but tube tires were the standard of the industry for 75 years. The 1st truck I drove with tubeless was in the 80's. I'm very surprised you never heard of them, but it shows, it's entirely possible today. You could count on at least a flat or 2 a week. Tubeless revolutionized the industry.

 

If I recall tires in the early 70's were good for 8000 miles. Radials were hideously expensive then. If I reach back far enough in my cobwebs there was even glass ply or similar for performance in the 60's

The Maryland State Police tried interceptor cars with huge grotesque V8s and found that the tire budget was not worth it when giggle cops burned them off for fun.

 

I knew of one trailer that belonged to a friend’s excavating company up until 4-5 years ago, had split rims on it.

It was a good trailer until it was time to change the tires.

I think it was getting harder and harder to find replacement tires so he decided to get rid of the trailer and bought a new one.

 

You can also put a 22.5 tire on that same old wheel called the Dayton or Budd
All vehicles had them years ago, gotta tighten them in sequence and torque right or they wobble going down the road.
Thats why all tire places have the ‘cage’
Put it in there while airing up incase it explodes

 

We called them "wagon wheels" When changing a wagon wheel, it's very important not to take the nuts off all the way at 1st. I've seen lugs( the thing that clamps the rim to the hub) fly across a room.

 

Those 10.00-20 tube type split ring are still the standard container chassis wheel and tire setup in 90% of the world. Billions of them laying around. They will be using them for a long time to come due to cost and interchangeability.
I just stripped down a 2006 Trac chassis (for its axles) that had gotten totaled in a wreck out here on I-10. It had 2 Goodyear made wheels with 1974 dates stamped on them. The newest one was from 1996. The only things the shipping company wanted back from that chassis was the wheels and tires. They didnt even care about the permanent Maine plate.
That should tell you something.