Good explanation about trailer tires vs LT

Blah, blah, blah... Just some unknown sales dude. I'd rather get my info. from an industry professional like say Roger Marble's rvtiresafety.net blog - tons of great info. from a retired tire engineer.

When it comes to ST tires, it's heat that leads to premature failure due to towing underinflated, overloaded and/or above the tire's speed rating. It's impossible to know how an owner treated their ST tires so it's impossible to know why a tire failed. As Roger Marble says, most failures are likely to have been caused by improper treatment. Having sufficient reserve load capacity is another important factor. Most ST tire owners don't know how to treat their tires properly. They're not like LT or passenger tires that they are used to. Sales dude didn't talk about load capacity of the various load ratings and sizes of ST tires or reserve load capacity rating.

What was the Load Range of the three tires he was looking at?
The LT Load Range E tires on my truck have a much higher weight capacity than the LT tire he used for comparison.
I would have been much more impressed had he cut the tires in two and showed the differences in construction, and showed LT tires with Load Range C, D, E, and F.
Years ago, my son bought a real nice 32 foot fifth wheel. On the first trip, he had a tire failure. He replaced the ST tires with LT LR E tires, and never had another blowout! Successful experience defeats book learnin' every time, IMO.

My 7X14 box trailer doesn't get used much, but if it ever needs tires it WILL get LT LR E tires!

Ron3rd wrote:
Watched the entire video and everything he says is theoretically correct. The problem is the ST tire market has been filled with cheap China Bomb Junk, thus the mass exodus to quality LT tires. In fact high end 5ers come with LT tires in place of China junk ST tires

+1

mt1729 wrote:
I didn't listen to all of his video. As soon as I realized he didn't know a lot about tires I gave it up. He was right about passenger car tires but that's about all.

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2014 youtube old news and has been on the our trailering forums and other websites and was typical Carlisle advertising from that era. 2019 has a much better educated trailering public.
And a whole lot better ST class tire.

Have seen that one before, just trying to sell ST tires higher profit margin.

Ralph Cramden wrote:
Yes you too can be a Uboob star. Taking corn to popper as I type.

Please pass it along when it's done!

I didn't listen to all of his video. As soon as I realized he didn't know a lot about tires I gave it up. He was right about passenger car tires but that's about all.

Watched the entire video and everything he says is theoretically correct. The problem is the ST tire market has been filled with cheap China Bomb Junk, thus the mass exodus to quality LT tires. In fact high end 5ers come with LT tires in place of China junk ST tires