Best advice on buying 19.5 rims and tires

ppine wrote:
With a car it is easy to change the profile of the tires to accomodate larger wheels, ie different F series. On a truck I don't want 50 or 60 series tires.
Maybe someone can explain the attraction of larger wheels. I don't get it.

I went to 19.5s for the load capacity, my original tires were 3200lb and the new 19.5s are just under 5000lbs per tire. The vision wheels are good to 4500lbs so I am good for 9000lbs on the rear axle. The truck rides rough unloaded but I haul a 3600lb commercial cap so the truck is always loaded.

I went with Toyo m608Z in size 245/70R19.5, they are noisy and had tread squirm for the first couple thousand miles. I have about 35,000 miles on them so far, with how they look I should get over 70,000 miles out of them. They do great in ice and snow and good on wet roads. If it was a truck that was a DD with part time hauling I probably would not go with 19.5s, I should note I run 3500lb Helwig helper springs and Firestone air bags and the truck is loaded to 10,800lbs.