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Southern Alberta Canada | You know... that almost looks like it's cut, it's possible that's damage that was done while spinning, say on the edge of one of scales that used to have the "I" beams along the side or something like that. Then the owner of the truck at that time just flipped the tire on the rim so the DOT wouldn't see it and carried on...
As far as recaps are concerned, when I ran several trucks I only ran caps on the drive axles. I would only run exact matched casings, Michelin XZA-1 casings were my preference. I chose those because they were softer sidewalls for better ride, possibly higher quality because they were built specifically for steering applications, the chances of them being virgin and newer casings was higher because you usually don't get as high milage out of steering tires as drives and trailer positions. The reason for exact matching casings was equal loading of all tires, I feel if you mix and match some casings will be susceptible to more loading than others plus it looks better. For some reason I had way better luck with recaps on the drive axles, we had a few throw caps on trailers but never one on a drive axle plus drive axles are easier to monitor and on our trucks it would do less damage if there was a failure.
Another option for farm trucks that are getting low milage is used tires, I've picked up several sets of tires with 50%+ tread left at just over casing cost, it seems around here there are always truckers changing out drive tires for whatever reason (usually oilfield trucks going into winter) that will remove a really nice set of tires and sell them to the tire shops as casings.
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for those who say recap tires are the way to go....Pic!
