Best tires for mileage and quality?

edge wear is a sign of under inflation or cornering too fast and braking (more so on the steers)

 

Our experience and a handful of other grain haulers is chopped edges with higher psi. These tires are only on trailers not on steers or drives. They are of course loaded heavy into the twin cities and empty coming back out.

 

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Once I get 8 matched tires I need to do some adjusting

 

I'd stay what I bought and have now. I'm right about 200k now on my Goodyear G399 steers, and have a long time to go on my Goodyear G572 drives. I like Michelin as well but I'm not a fan of the XZA3 and they don't make the XZA2 anymore. I also really like my XDA HT, but they aren't made any more either . On my step I ran Bridgestone R250ed and was pretty happy with price and performance. I did not like Goodyears offerings in 255/70 22.5.

 

My truck came with the XZA2 on the steers and I switched to the 3 and then the 3+ as they came out. Every one has been an improvement IMO.

My trailer came with XTEs set at 105 from the factory. I bought it used with about 125,000 miles on it and the tires were shot due to the edges being excessively worn. A direct result of overinflation. This is only in drive or (and) especially trailer applications. Those tires will actually bounce, going down the road, and whenever they land the tire flexes and the edges briefly come in contact with the pavement and scrub. 100K later you wonder what happened to your tires.

Tire PSI only changes 1 psi for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit. This is another reason why I run 5 psi higher than Michelin recommends. 80 in California or Texas is only 75 in most places in Canada.

At 80,000 miles and 80 PSI, the current XZA3s are wearing perfectly square.

I've never sat on the side of the road for any tire related reason either. Or any other reason matter of fact.

 

I run my steers at 105 and all the rest at 115 but I am over 100k alot of the time

 

I am at 85535 miles and on my 2nd set of steers a 2nd set of rear drives and bout due for a 3rd set of steers lol like I said I run 90% of 2 lane backass country mountain rds in western Nc Ga Tn Sc Al

 

On this truck I've worn out 2 sets of Michelin drives, 1 set of Generals that were on it when I bought it and 1 Yokohama that's been on it for 15 months and not hurt with 7 other rock drilled Bridgestones....the Bridge stones clearly have a design flaw to hold rocks and damage tires or else the Michelin's and the Yok would have been hurt.

To expect a truck to never drive on gravel or for a O/O or even a company driver to remove every rock from the tread every day is simply retarded...other tires don't do it why should these?
I spent over $4K for these tires and they're trashed at 1/2 life.

For the rest of the trucks life its back to Michelin, a Bridge stone will never be on anything I own in the future. I work too hard for my $ to throw it away on trash.


I truly hope that you posted your comment from sarcasm, not true stupidity being serious.

A comment for the OP... my last 3 sets of steers were Michelin's from XZA2s to XZA3s and I've gotten over 200K miles out of them at 105 psi.

 

Seems like Yokohama recommends 80 PSI on dual tires as well.

http://www.yokohamatire.com/assets/docs/truckBusRefGuide.pdf

As does Bridgestone:

http://www.trucktires.com/bridgestone/us_eng/load/load_pdf/loadTables.pdf


Go figure.

 

. I ran Bridgestone on drive for 738.000 miles