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Are fleet tires usually retired for rot? Is there a limit to how many retreads can be done? I guess it could help, but I would think the outside would rot faster than the inside from sun exposure.
it's pretty rare for a fleet tire to be allowed to rot, normally drive tires will last somewhere around 350,000 miles (approx numbers of coarse but thats a good average from what I have seen with my own) the truck I drive gets around 250,000 miles a year put on it so max is 1-1/2yrs on my drive tires (there is actually 2 of us that drive the same truck) The tires are then recapped and used as trailer tires, recaps last a little less probably around 300,000 miles and rough guess the trailers in this company see somewhere around 150k per year so another 2 yrs on those, general concencios at least in my world is 1 recap, I do know guys that have done it as many as 3 times on a carcass, but in some states it's not legal past 1 anyway. My guess is more fleet tires are retired for road damage than rot. I had a old semi trailer I just used around my farm had it for 8 yrs, and bought it with well used recaps on it, rough guess somewhere around 10yrs old was when I started noticing the dry rot on the sidewalls, but of coarse since I didn't use it on road I didn't care. (just used it to haul water tanks around the farm to the cows)
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