Michelin LT failure

Chris, thanks for the interesting pictures of the Bridgestone Duravis R250. That may well be the way I go. It also matches the recommendation from a small local tire retailer that I spoke with after my tire failure. He is located in the country in central Texas and many of his customers are ranchers with large stock trailers. The overwhelming choice of his customers who pull on both paved and gravel is the Bridgestone Duravis R250. (Full disclosure: this is also his recommendation to them) However, he reports that these customers also replace with the same tire, so that seems to backup his recommendation. Of course, this is all based on his word, but he came across as a no BS good honest man.

The OEM tires/wheels were no name ST225/75R15 LRD. Therefore the LT225/75R16 LRE tires that I am now running are as large as I want to go. My bolt pattern is 655. (6 bolts on a 5.5 inch diameter.)

I do have a question about TPMS for the forum. It seems like all the ones I find are mounted on the valve stem. Some even do both pressure and temperature. I’m not sure how responsive the sensors would be to temperature out in the “cooling wind” as they rotate down the road. Does anyone know of a good TPMS that works with a trailer having the sensors mounted inside on the wheel?

Thanks everyone, Kevin