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I have a Logan 22 foot Stockman horse trailer that I run all over Washington, Oregon, Idaho Utah, and Nevada to dog competitions. It also gets used off road for training dogs, trail rides and getting into some of these dog competitions. It seems like any time I am off road for an extended period of time I get flat which results in a new tire. I am currently running Goodyear Marathon st 235/80r16 tires load range E which I know are junk. What is everyone running? I am for sure going to go with g rated or an LT tire.

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I replaced the tires on my truck (Michelin LTX M/S) with about 30% of the tread left and put them on my 5er. Very few people pull their trailers enough to wear out a set of tires. I know your truck doesn't have 16 inch wheels, but perhaps you know someone who does.
 
No I have torsion axes so they have some suspension. I am more concerned about punctures. Towing empty yesterday if felt the same as always.
 
Geostar 235/85R16 st G rate tire. They are a commercial grade tire. 110 psi rated for just under 3500 pounds. I have 7000 pound axes on my trailer so they should work great. I had Goodyear Marathon load range E 235/80R16 which I had 4 flats and two failures of the tire. Changing tires in the desert 15 miles away from the nearest highway doesn't interest me. The guy at Schwab said all the cowboys were putting them on. I figured they are really hard on stuff so they ought to work for me.
 
You would if you a towed off road and if you towed with animals. Next time your at the tire store check out G rated tire compaired to an LT HT tire there is nocomparison in strength of side wall or in the tread.
 
I mainly use Cooper Discovery AT LT 235's in D range on my heavy flat deck dove tale equipment trailer and haven't had one early failure. My triple axle toy hauler weighed over 18K loaded and I had zero issues running Firestone Transforce AP's in 235/16 in D range. It came with Chinese E rated ST tires that cracked all up the first year. The Firestones ran nice and trouble free even in Florida on 100 degree days. That triple 43' toy hauler was hard on tire sidewalls when turning, but the LT's held up better than the ST tires on my two other utility trailers. I bought ST tire and rim combos a couple years ago at TSC and they still crack and delaminate early, gonna put US made LT's on when the ST tires finally fail. I don't know what ST offerings are out there now, but GoodYear ST's in 15" on my Arctic Fox did not impress me at all. No better than any other ST. But I had GoodYear 16" ST's on my 41' Day Dreamer 5th wheel and they did fine for years in E range. Only ST set up that ever lasted, they came from the Forest River factory.
 
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I will avoid ST in favor of LT tires at every opportunity. I even found an XL rated P-metric tire that works well on my TT. The ST tires are poorly made, are not rated for typical highway speeds, and my last set of ST GY Marathons began to delaminate internally, and the odd shape lead to a broken leaf spring.. I just lucky it happened when moving the trailer at low speed in my yard and not on the highway.

As far as side walls are concerned, I'm not convinced the STs are really better than typical LT or even some P-metric tires.. to cut away all the opinions in favor of facts, I did cross-section cuts of the failed ST tire, and compared to a small P-metric tire and saw virtually no difference in side wall construction for these 2 radial tires. The ST tire being somehow tougher for trailer use does not hold up from what I've seen. They are cheaply made tires sold for too much money, that don't last long and require frequent replacement and are at best rated to top speed of 65MPH, ( the low end P-metric or LT tire can go up to 100 MPH or more, not as you actually go that speed, but it suggests much better typical speed performance.. why would you want to ride a max capacity on a tire.. that is just asking for trouble! )

Here is a prior thread with more details:

https://www.turbodieselregister.com/threads/252460-Tire-recommendations-st-225-75-R-15
 
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I run 16" Michelin XPS Ribs on my 26' horse trailer. I've replaced one tire in 8 yrs for a nail through the sidewall. While not used off-road regularly it has seen it's share of Texas ranch roads and Colorado logging roads. When loaded, trailer runs 17.5K which just about maxes tire load rating. I considered G-rated tires but even with torsion axles, I want the sidewall flex that an E rating allows. Seems like most of the ranch trailers I've been around run the same tires as the ranch trucks, usually E rated A/Ts (probably b/c they're a used set off a truck).
 
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