Chinese Tires?

Funny thing is, my steers are bulging at the bottom when at rest, and I always have them at 110 psi. I will try to post a pic soon. Maybe my tire gauge isn't accurate...

 

Max PSI rated on the Alcoa rim is 130 psi.
The sliding PSI scale recommended by the tire manufacturer is proportional with the tire load.
34.000 LBS divided by 8 drive tires is 4250 LBS/tire.
Max tire load/tire is over 6000 LBS.
On dual setup and for this tire load most manufacturers recommend 85 psi, usually.
Using 90 PSI helps with the ride comfort, by a lot.
It helps also with the tire wear and traction by maximizing the contact with the road.
Driving in the desert areas the pressure rise up from 90 to 125 PSI.
Mostly on the sunny side.

 

Michelin used to have them on their commercial tire website. Last time I looked, they still had the rolling resistance calculator, but now you have to do some double backflip-carry the one- subtract the phase of the moon calculation to find the rolling resistance.

 

Yeah, I don't see what the big broo-ha is concerning rolling resistance. I've read that for every 10% decrease in rolling resistance, there is only about a 1% improvement in fuel economy. Is it really worth obsessing over? I would rather have a stronger tire that gets slightly less fuel efficiency. I guess it's a matter of preference.

 

Yeah a few years back I landed a job carting "Dunder" its the waste product from the Power Alcohol plant where they process molasses and turn it into Ethanol, and Mentholated Spirits anyway it was very cheap to buy for the cattle farms for around $200 per cubic metre ( 1000 litres) we used to have to deliver the stuff out to these cattle properties basically in the mulga, sometime no roads just a cattle track and the risk of running over a stake from a broken tree was very high as a result my boss used to buy container loads of very cheep size 11 R 22.5 from China to use on the trailer wheels at a fraction of the cost of the name brands.

 

I'd be more concerned with the amount of fuel he has left at the moment.