Rotating drive tires.

Hello, when rotating tires on the drives, which position helps with tire life?

I know the right rear axle tires wear the fastest and which wears the least fastest?

Im thinking of rotating the tires with the most tread over to the right rear and the tires from the right rear to which ever position wears the least.

What are your thoughts?

The tires I have are Continental HDL2 DL.

I really like these tires.

 

These Continentals are my first set of tires since I started working for the company.

They originally were on the 2001 sterling I used to drive for over 4 years.

I pulled the tires off and installed them on the current truck I’m driving now.

When I pulled them off the other truck, I rotated them for this truck with the highest tread placed on the right side rear drive.

Now I’m seeing the right side rear drive is wearing down and am now thinking the tires should be rotated soon once weather warms up.

 

Hmm...

I’m sure I can rotate tires like that and keep them in the same direction, but will have the issue of having to do serious cleaning of the inner rims of oxidization and thick layer of brake dust to make them look presentable on the outside.

 

I know of guys that do that, move the tires to the front, 4 new drive tires on the rear.

As the person that does the fleet tire changing, all the other trucks run recaps or cheap tires that we just change whatever is worn out with 2 new ones each time.

I do most of the further away driving, heavy hauling, floating and got the complete set of 8 virgin continental drive tires. The other truck I drive, the blue freightliner in the sig, that one uses virgin 728 bridgestones.

I’m no fan of recaps on my truck, especially rain or winter.

I’m happy that my boss allows me to chose tires that I like.