Highway ribs on drive axles?

I run G167's all around including on the steering axle. The steering axle is a Marmon Herrington MT-17. Now I need to replace at least 4 of them but Goodyear only offers the tread pattern in a retread.

 

If you want to retread your VIRGIN casings with your commercial truck center, they will probably charge for the new retread and the casing that comes with it. Certain casings are better than others, ie a never-before-capped (NBC) 2010 Yokohama is more valuable than a NBC 2010 Double Coin just as a NBC 2008 Goodyear is superior to a NBC 2009 LingLong casing, depending on its application. Some Goodyear dealers will give you an even swap if your virgin casing is their definition of an "A-grade" casing, which, for Goodyear, would include any GY, Dunlop, or Kelly casing. If the truck center was a Yokohama dealer, "A-grade" may be redefined. For example, you come in off the road to your Goodyear truck service dept. and ask for two Goodyear G167 PC retreads because your one NBC Dunlop SP193 from 2009 and your other NBC BF Goodrich ST230 from 2008 are down to a barely legal 2/32nds of tread. The Dunlop SP193 casing and tire will cover the cost of the casing you bought with G167 retread #1. Since the BF Goodrich is not in the Goodyear family, you wouldn't get quite as much credit toward covering the cost of the other casing you bought with G167 retread #2. Of course we're assuming both retread #1 and #2 are Goodyear brand casings on their 1st retreading - not always the case, but works for an example. Either way, if you decide to go with retreads, you'd get your retreads for fewer greenbacks, especially since the casings you traded in were of moderate to high quality in this situation.