Super single rear wheels

Cons: cost, availability, if a tire goes down, you are down, not good in slick conditions. Most private truckers will not go to the singles because of this.

Check out this page of a recent thread I posted about tires.

Tire post

TDInewguy has put them on and says he loves them. You could PM him for additional info.

The advantage to truckers is the weight savings that equate to hauling more PAYload.

What is the advantage to a motor home owner?

I've run about 80K miles on the super single rears and will continue to use them when time comes they need to be replaced.

So how old are they, newguy? How do the side walls look? I'd think there would be extra torsion stresses from making turns (maybe?) on such wide tires so are there lots of spider cracks after traveling 80K?

Super singles can provide better fuel economy. On the other hand,If it blows and you don't have a tag, you'll be on the wheel $$,just like the front I would say that's not so good ! The cost to change over is great. ,Greater than any RV'er is gong to see in better fuel economy in the tiny amount of miles they drive compared a OTR truck. I drove for a major company and they still wont change over. They've run tons of tests, it still doesn't pencil out <$ If it did they'd be on it like ....

Biggest advantage is weight savings. Then, they save a little tiny bit of fuel, maybe a tenth of a mile per gallon.

Both of those reasons are very small considerations in the RV world, considering the great conversion cost of new wheels and tires. If you drive over 100,000 per year, you might want to consider them.

I really like the look of super singles. If you like them for motorhome applications IMHO go for it. I remember when they first were available to truckers and they weren't very well accepted. If you get caught in ice or snow they act like ski's! Any large fishers in the roadway or overlapping asphalt they have a tendency not to follow straight. I also seen a trucker with a heavy load (canned goods) in the truck yard where I worked and he made a very sharp u-turn and the super single tire came off of the rim. I hauled doubles for 44-1/4 years and I had a converter dolly that had two super singles tires and it was so light it was easy to maneuver by hand.

mpierce wrote:
Biggest advantage is weight savings. Then, they save a little tiny bit of fuel, maybe a tenth of a mile per gallon.

Both of those reasons are very small considerations in the RV world, considering the great conversion cost of new wheels and tires. If you drive over 100,000 per year, you might want to consider them.

From my experience in trucking I've never been able to come close to getting 100,000 miles on any truck tire! MH maybe the exception because there so light in weight and a highway tread?

J-Rooster wrote:

mpierce wrote:
Biggest advantage is weight savings. Then, they save a little tiny bit of fuel, maybe a tenth of a mile per gallon.

Both of those reasons are very small considerations in the RV world, considering the great conversion cost of new wheels and tires. If you drive over 100,000 per year, you might want to consider them.

From my experience in trucking I've never been able to come close to getting 100,000 miles on any truck tire! MH maybe the exception because there so light in weight and a highway tread?

Man, what do you do?? I own over the road Pete. I get 250,000 to 300,000 plus on steers, and between 200 and 300,000 on drives. OEM steers I came up just short of 400,000!