With proper maintenance on your tires and truck, you should be getting 160,000 to 190,000 on a good set of steers. What you need is a good set of tires with a low rolling resistance. Michelin XZA3's have the lowest rolling resistance on the market. Fuel savings alone will pay for these tires several times over, regardless on the cost of the tire.
You can go to Michelin's website to compare rolling reistance on many brands of tires and they have a cost savings calulator.
Michelin's XZE* tire has a rollings resistance of 120, not too good. The XTA Energy is 86.42, very good and the XOne XTA has the best at 81.74, though Wide Singles are not recommended for spread axle trailers.
Rolling resistance on trailers has the most impact, drives next and steers the least.
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Terry L. Davis
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Last edited by terrylamar; 08-03-2010 at 02:21 PM.
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