Can you convert a new trailer with duals to super singles?

and when you have a blowout, you aint going anywhere.

 

...just like with any other tire. Over $1000 in fines if you get caught "limping" on a flat plus you still have to pay for the service call not to mention the piece that flies off and hits somebody.

You can just put wide singles on. Nothing special required. They do make the rims with zero and 2" offset. I'm at the limit for weight about 50% of the time with 2" offset and I've never had any inside wear issues. If you're worried though, just get the zeros.

 

No the difference is at 70 mile an hour and you have a blowout with duals you can get stopped on the shoulder without wrecking a wheel, a supersingle goes it's immediately on the wheel and it's going to be wrecked in a hurry.

 

That's all BS. When you blow a steer tire, is the rim instantly ruined? Not very often. The tire deflates and you drive on the flat to get to the shoulder. It's the same thing with wide singles. If you're blowing virgin tires that often that it's even an issue, you need to start doing proper maintenance

 

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I still wouldn't run them I don't see it making that much of a difference in price to matter and I doubt you get much better mileage running them either.

 

Read it Wrong

 

With todays fuel cost there is almost no savings, which is why we se many big fleets back to ordering duals on new equipment the lat few years. Now if fuel gets back to 5 bucks a gallon and stays there, we all need to be at least putting pencil to paper and figuring out exactly if its cost effective.

 

You need to be finding better salesman. The cost difference when specing new equipment is almost nothing.