Rotating pickup tires

I am due a tire rotation on my pickup.
Goodyear Wrangler SRA tires if that makes a difference.

I have always just rotated my tires front to rear and rear to front same side keeping the same rotation direction.
Just the way I was taught years ago when I first started using radial tires.

I could even see if you had a bad front end where the tire was wearing on one side; taking the tire off the rim and turning it around then putting it on the other side of the truck. This would put the inside of the tire on the outside now but still keep the same rotation.

But I now notice a lot are recommending you use a X pattern when rotating tires. LF/RR and LR/RF changing the tire rotation.

Your thoughts on the subject.
 
The front - rear pattern is becoming more common, especially for vehicles that have a mini-spare. Costco rotates my pickup tires front - rear at my orders. The original full-size Bridgestone spare (nearly 14 years old) has never been on a wheel. They'll do the 5-wheel pattern if you request that, but most people don't bother.
 
I've asked the ? at the tire store and they said as long as they are not a one direction tire you can rotate they as needed.
 
On my cars, (I know you're doing your truck), my tires were always getting choppy wear. My long time tire guy said you MUST change rotation to prevent this. and often too. He said the front to rear, never x-ing was a thing from the very early radial days, especially the early glass belt radial days.
 
Unless you have a tread directional tire no need to think about the direction being turned around You go any place and buy a used tire and you never know the direction it was ran. This has always been a fact for bias or radial tires. Have only bought one pair of new tires last year in years and always was used parts yard tires. I would get as many mile out of them as I did on the last new passenger tire I bought years ago that was a rated at 80,000 mile and at 12,000 it was completely smooth, no tread left. Just normal driving.
 
I rotate rears straight forward and fronts crossed to the back. That way every tire is eventually on every location. That way, I get the most even wear possible. I think the straight forward straight back rotation was necessary when radials first came out but not with today's tires.
 
Tracy is right. Cross tires to the drive axle, and move the others straight. 4X4 = rear wheel drive. I ran the shop at a tire store for 13 years. When in doubt read the owners manual.
 
Personally I don't see the need for rotating tires. I never have all of them last until they are worn out. I end up for one reason or another having to replace the tires one at a time so having uniform wear isn't possible. Tire shops have gotten to where they won't patch a tire unless the nail you run over is in about a 3" wide area in the center of the tire. I end up having to use plugs which aren't dependable because I can't get them to patch it because the nail hole is a inch from the sidewall.
 
Look in your owner's manual. My Silverado shows both ways....aka do it however it feels good. No longer have to worry about bad radials and not being able to run them in reverse once run in one direction.
 
(quoted from post at 15:42:01 10/22/16) I've asked the ? at the tire store and they said as long as they are not a one direction tire you can rotate they as needed.

I have mine done front to back one time and crisscrossed the next and so on. 8)
 
Front-to-back rotation was recommended for the early steel-belted radials. They were known to throw tread if you reversed their direction of rotation. Car manufacturers stuck with that recommendation for decades after the tire makers fixed the thread-throwing problem.
 
I don't bother rotating tires. The rears wear faster from pulling the float and wagons etc. Once the tires get to around 50% I replace them with new. Always need wagon tires anyway.
 

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