Anyone running toyo drives

I have been buying firestone steers and trailer tires. So far so good. Made in the USA at a reasonable price. Don't have them on my drives yet but I will definitely go that route when needed.

 

We had bridgestones on our drives in 2001, Yokohamas on the steer. But it's not our choice FFE decides what tires go on that truck. What we did do is replace all tires at first frost each year for winter battle. Michelin is tops. Followed by Bridgestone and then Yokos in that order.

For personal cars it's the same with the exception of no Yokos but rather Korean Hankooks which I found to be pretty good for what we do here.

Good year has been a total and abject failure in our cars lately. Three sets of them with belt flaws from the factory which got worse and threaten a zipper failure or something on all 4 for the cars. Eff it, rip em off and put a new set of a different model on. Well, it's been 6 months and these finally started to develop the same sidewall cupping as the other good years. When the next tires are purchased, we will not be buying good years ever again, something changed in their production and not for the better.

 

Back on the 2012-2013 International's Knight trucks they came with 8 Good year drives and steers up front, the steers held up on some and on others went to hell. The drives all went to hell most cupped after 40-80k on them and got pulled off most the trucks around 100k mark. They drove the shops nuts to the point they just started pulling them and putting on Bridgestones. They had enough with Goodyear even as recaps afterwords they were nightmares.

Tires are the one place I don't skimp money on, I fully believe its the one place you get what you pay for and I wont chance damaging my truck or a rim over some cheap tire.

 

My father recently started putting Goodyears on his drives. He hauls extremely heavy up here in Ontario. 95,000lbs on the deck almost everyday. The Goodyears are doing pretty good for the application. The wear is reduced significantly from the Michelins he had before. It's been over 6 months since he put them on and no signs of any defects in the tires or irregular wear. Fingers crossed nothing happens like stated in the above posts. The Michelins handle the road really well in slick conditions and winter cause they're a softer compound. Not so great for hauling heavy. Michelins are the only ones that go on the steers though. No one comes close to Michelin steers in our experience!