Tires For Hauling
 

I have been reading different threads on here and have only gotten more and more confused about the choices on tires. The more threads I read the more I wanna pull what lil hair I have left out... I am looking a tire to put on my 96 dodge cummins that seems to love to eat tires. I pull a 26' steel gooseneck horse trailer very often (12,000 #s). I have 305/70/16 KHUMO's on it now and I hate them. Ive lookd at the Cooper STT's and the terra grapplers. Mudd tires are not really what I was looking for but if they will do the job and I can get good mileage out of them IDC. If there are guys out there who pull trailers often, let me know what kinda tires you are running and how you like them. There has to be a good tire out there for the kind of hauling and terrain that I encounter.

go with 19.5 tires and wheels....heavy rated, mine are good for 6400 lbs each and the last set I got 115k miles outa them

as cool as the rickson 19.5's look, the cost of the rims and tires are unreal. i just looked at their website, it looks like the tires alone are over $300 each. the rims and tires package to go on the truck is near $2400:ouch:

yep and at 115k they will pay for them selves in no time..............plus heavy duty service..........6400 lbs each is equivelent to a duelly:rocking:

WHIT...Which ones did you go with.. Got any pics

first set was the Yokahama TY 303....I did them in a 285 series and ended up getting 115k miles out of them, I got busy chasing girls in the end there and failed to rotate them and got them outa wack and they still had an easy 20-25k on them, rebalanced but never could get all the shake outa them so I switched to the G124 from Goodyear, this set I am running the 265 series and like them much better

did you go with the forged aluminum or the steel powdercoated?

steel powdercoated..........I think they were 172 lbs each, that was with the Yoko's on there

I have never regretted this move for a second, if you calculate the milage ya get here you actually come out ahead per mile.......so the payload rating is just a bonus after that.....safer

are you towing a load? Is the 115k highway miles or just running around town?

it was mixed miles...........prolly 70% was unloaded