Tires are one of the biggest operating expenses for any trucking company, but some carriers don’t treat them like the ...

Tire tread patterns aren’t quite as diverse as snowflake, where no two are the same. But tread does differ widely, not only by brand but by wheel position and application.

Of course, we're talking about tire-tread patterns. Be they full of grooves, packed with interlocking blocks, zig-zagged with sipes, or totally slick, you can learn a lot about a vehicle's ...

Tire selection is often focused on brand name and application, but tread pattern can have just as much impact on the tire’s lifecycle.

Selecting the right tread pattern for tires used on the often-hostile road surface of a construction site, as shown here on this dump truck, can help resist "chipping and chunking" caused by stones ...

They also serve as the perfect location to test tires — and for us to see how popular pickup tire tread patterns compare when pitted against each other under controlled winter driving conditions.

While tread spacing and stagger is still key in a true mud tire, the addition of extra sipes, biting edges, and block alignment, is upping the on-road benefits of the modern mud-terrain radial.