Highway ribs on drive axles?

I love how he says he has more experience but yet he has only been driving for 8yrs LOL
Next thing you know he is going to say his co-driver was Jesus back when dirt was shiny!

He is also from California, so maybe its Charlie Sheen? Winner, winner SHEEN dinner

 

I'd rather pray Jesus than Kevin Rutherford (the guy that drives RV) but every steering wheel holder knows better. Buy less rubber for more money in the name of fuel savings that ain't - #### it is greeeeennnnn.

Yeah, you all are green like lettuce

 

Dinosaur blood?

 

I'm switching my steers over to 315/80R 22.5's from my low pro 24.5's.

My son has 'em on one of his trucks and they really ride nice and I can load up the steer axle a little more which i need to do during the harvest season (just in case I cross a scale!).

I can buy BFG's for $540.00 each including FET... that's retail. The Michelin XDA's are $760.00 retail each with FET... but my cost with our National Account is around $620.00 each. I will probably go with the Michelins.

I already got a good deal on a pair of 22.5X9" polished aluminum Accuride's... I bought four for $800.00 and sold two to my son who will use them on his buses tag axle.

 

The Michelin XDA3 is my favorite drive, but any similar closed shoulder - lug center type drive is a good choice.

I've run XDA3 drives for 4 Wyoming winters running dedicated across Elk Mountain, they do great in heavy snow to black ice (well, as good as any tire will do on black ice. Driver technique is often more important than tire type. Just, look for the less shiney, rougher part of the road or shoulder and run on that!)

One company I drove for back in the mid-90s used to run old steers on the drive position. I had to carry a 25' - 3/8" MK7 chain with me and ask somebody to pull me off the fuel island or out of my parking spot way too often, when I was empty or light, in the Mid-West winters. Not worth the hassle for me, and not for them anymore. I notice they run XDA3's nowdays, too.

Some guys also, mount a really good set of open shoulder off/on road lugs to an extra set of rims just to run in winter. They run all positions on another set of rims for summer. Thing is when does winter end and summer begin. It can change quick if you run all 48. Again, I think it's too much hassle to do this, at least for me.

If you guys are stuck on running steers in the drive position, just be sure to carry tire chains, kitty litter, and a tow chain or two. You need them sooner rather than later.

 

What's funny is the crowd who complains about us guys with straight pipes are running with lug tires and they don't even realize the screaming whine coming from their tires creating noise pollution for everyone in a one mile radius from the interstate.

Yes I run same tires on my drives as what's on the steer.
Just a nice quiet "whoooosh" instead of that "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"!

 

Should just find some racing slicks to mount on the rims. You wouldn't even know you driving down the road how quiet it is and the mpgs you'd be saving it be phenomenal you won't believe it till you try. Slap on some Hoosiers or Mickeys.

 

Steer tires on the drive axle? How's that working for you?

 

What kind of life do you guys get out of a set of XZE's on the drives? I'm interested in trying them for summer months only (heavy snow belt, steep mountain passes here) if they wear well, I'm just skeptical because of the shallow tread depth.