Best way to keep a spare drive/ trailer tire handy for a road side repair

A steel rim with a mounted all-position tire in a carrier under the trailer, a 30T long-ram bottle jack, and a 4ft breaker bar worked for me. Never had to use it, thankfully.

 

Just make sure tread depths are similar before mating the spare in a dual location. Any more than about 5 or 6/32's difference and you will quickly scrub the tread off of one of the tires tire in that dual combo like a pencil eraser. I saw a trailer tire go bald in about 500 miles once. Never thought it could happen so fast.

 

We used to have tires that sat on rim which went onto spoked wheels. Let's just say that the nicer aluminum wheels and other advances in technology retired those old monsters thankfully. Those old spokes always found a way to shake a nut or two loose creating a increasing problem on the whole thing.

 

If a rim is in such disrepair to need changing, I would scrap it and replace, not fix.
Especially if it was aluminum.

 

Those old Dayton wheels are much easier to change out on the road though.

You can still get new trucks with Dayton hubs in heavy duty applications.