Best Tires for Travel Trailer?

JJBIRISH wrote:

hddecker wrote:

JJBIRISH wrote:


hddecker ,
possibly Carlisle bias ply tires are still made in the USA, I think they were made in Carlisle PA but moved the plant to Tennessee.. Some of the rubber stock I believe is made in Greenville Illinois, but all of this was a few years ago so can not guarantee it today…

gmw wrote:

I belive that you are correct about the bias ply. The problem is they don't make a 16", then too bias ply are not really the best RV tire.

This whole argument over tires, be it brand or ST vs LT is never going to be resolved. It will forever and a day come down to a personal choice. The only thing that I am sure about is I won't pay a premium for Goodyear Marathons made in China.

It will go on and on until the involved industries decide it’s in their best interest to do something about it… the end user isn’t demanding better and is more than willing to accept the status quo, then go and spend another $1500+ to address it themselves…

I can’t imagine a salesman selling a new trailer and after penning the deal says, oh by the way you owe me another $1500 if you want tires that are safe enough to get the trailer home…
Yet that is essentially what happens with every trailer sent off the lot, and our silence is deafening at the showroom…

there is no concern what so ever for what we the replacement market think or what we want… we are an easy mark and they know it… they created the division and continue to drive the division home…
they do it by plaqueding the trailer for the ST tire with their known shortcomings and lack of required reserve capacity and stopped building most LT tires in sizes that we use for our trailers and the required de-rating causing under sizing on most of the rest, even though it’s primarily a legal and liability issue (I am often accused of lying about this)... it keeps the division alive and well…

they are blurring the lines even farther with the newer euro-commercial line of tires and right now their effort seem to center around limiting or keeping them out of our US market… an example of that might be that GY has about 6 lines of euro- commercial tires but are not importing them to the US yet…

still the arguments will be the same but there will be more choices of under-rated tires out there with even closer ratings…

and still they (all of them) REFUSE TO RECOMMEND A LT TIRE for trailer use even one of sufficient size in the US…

The problem is when an ST tires blow it's an UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIM (99.5% as to cause). Some of us run the same tires, adhere to the published SPEED RESTRICTIONS and don't have issues. Therefore, LT tires are a unnecessary expense.