Come on Calvin you were all set to change to a steel case, retreadable, and regroveable 17.5" commercial truck tires until you were called out about it and the conflict with your undieing support for ST tires. You know the ones with the dense tread, just like those that you love to hate! Yes the same ones that will run 6 or 7 years and can be sold on places like CL for a couple hundred dollars!
So you have already done your own research on the subject and as you stated you were getting to old for tire problems, yes? You posted in quite detail about your research and tire choice. However like in the past you may have gone back and deleted as much of that as you could when your ST tire ship came in again. I will dig around and see if I can find it for you, OK? If some one quoted your post, then you would not be able to delete it in the quoted post.
Again there are many that post about real world success with ditching ST in favor of LT tires and you could have done that years ago. However you got on your little ST tire agenda and for some reason can not let go of it. That raises a LARGE question about motive and/or compensation!
Chris
