terryknight
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we run ATs on all our dually trucks. pick up, dumps, the box truck, everything that may see anything other than pavement gets an AT of some kind
Tires for dually pickup?
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Bird
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All my experience and knowledge is dated, but when I had a 1989 one ton dually, extended cab Chevy, living in and pulling a 32' fifth wheel, the original tires were about worn out when we decided to go to Alaska in March, 1991 (still lots of snow), I put a set of B. F. Goodrich All Terrain T/A tires on my truck and never had any complaints or problems with them; however, I probably only put about 10 to 12k miles on them before trading the truck and trailer for a motorhome.
My only words of advice is do not buy retreaded tires. They are cheaper and supposed to be good, but they are not. Know someone bought 6 for his dually. Not even 5k on them and one fell apart. That one was on the front of the truck. Just not worth your safety. I think they should be illegal on tractor trailer trucks too. Up here in the northeast the seem to be all over our highways.
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Bird
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You know ONE person who had bad luck with a retread? I've known lots of cases of NEW tire failures. That's the reason for warranties. It's been many, many years but I ran a full set of 4 on car with never a problem once and I ran just 2 on another car with no problem.
I assume you are talking about the tire rubber you see along the highway. Did you ever stop to inspect any of it? If you do, you can determine whether it might have been retread that came off, or whether it was a tire that came apart, tread, cords, and all. When one of my brother owned a couple of 18-wheelers, he said he got more mileage from the retreads than from the original new tires.
A blanket statement to not buy retreaded tires is like a blanket statement to not buy a particular brand of car, truck, or tractor.
I work on interstate highways. Everyday highway workers remove them from the roadway. I have first hand experience of this everyday I work. They are junk.
I work on interstate highways. Everyday highway workers remove them from the roadway. I have first hand experience of this everyday I work. They are junk.
Have you ever seen what happens to a 80,000 tractor trailer when they blow a front tire. I have numerous times. It is not pretty. I have seen highways shut down for 4 plus hours to remove the wreckage. I value my families and other people's lives too much to skimp on tires.
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you see people running caps on fronts? / tractors? vs just trailers?
Bird
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I haven't kept up with the trucking laws in quite a few years, but the last I knew it was illegal to run retreads on the front axle of the 18-wheelers. So it's very likely that a blown front tire on an 18-wheeler was NOT a retread. Yep, tires that are not retreads have actually been known to blow out on both cars and trucks. But yes, I know a trucker could have violated that law, but I haven't personally seen one do that.
I once had a right rear tire on a 1956 Mercury blow out when I was doing more than 100 mph. I also had a left front tire blow out doing more than 100 mph on a 1966 Chevrolet police sedan. No power steering on either of those vehicles, neither had retread tires, neither had worn out tread, and neither resulted in any kind of accident or loss of control, so blaming accidents on retread tires without doing a proper investigation is nonsense.
But since all retreads are junk (according to Btown), I just don't understand how Bandag has been able to keep selling them to trucking companies for more than 50 years. If an accident occurs as bad as Btown is talking about, the police (state or local) should have had an accident investigation specialist to determine the exact cause. Of course the cause MAY very well have been a blown front tire, and that tire MAY or MAY NOT have been a retread.
And of course it's been about 43 years since I graduated from the Northwestern University Traffic Institute's Long Course (9 months), and it's been about 23 years since I worked in a tire dealership, so some of my knowledge is admittedly dated.
I once had a right rear tire on a 1956 Mercury blow out when I was doing more than 100 mph. I also had a left front tire blow out doing more than 100 mph on a 1966 Chevrolet police sedan. No power steering on either of those vehicles, neither had retread tires, neither had worn out tread, and neither resulted in any kind of accident or loss of control, so blaming accidents on retread tires without doing a proper investigation is nonsense.
But since all retreads are junk (according to Btown), I just don't understand how Bandag has been able to keep selling them to trucking companies for more than 50 years. If an accident occurs as bad as Btown is talking about, the police (state or local) should have had an accident investigation specialist to determine the exact cause. Of course the cause MAY very well have been a blown front tire, and that tire MAY or MAY NOT have been a retread.
And of course it's been about 43 years since I graduated from the Northwestern University Traffic Institute's Long Course (9 months), and it's been about 23 years since I worked in a tire dealership, so some of my knowledge is admittedly dated.
