11r x 24.5 steer tires

I have a 1979 W-900, pretty much identical to snowmans truck in smokey and the bandit. Anyway, its time to put some front steer tires on it and there are a LOT of options out there, i havent really priced anything, but i wont hardly put 3000 miles a year on the truck but its not easy finding used 24.5's around here. Just wondering what opinions you guys have on a manufacturer or model of tire you guys have had good luck with. Ive been looking through a site called

https://danthetireman.com/

way to many options...

Around here b f Goodrich work good they don?t seem to have
much gravel were. Dayton?s are softer better winter grip
I?ve good long term were on Goodrich

ran toyo,s on a tanker 105.000 lbs 04 W 900 love them as steers probley 100 to 125 thousand miles had 4 sets in 6 years

Well as far as brand I have had good luck with several Major brands of tires: Michelin, Yokohama, Goodyear being the one that held up the best. For a mid range tire, that is not getting used much I have had good luck with Hankock tires.

I have ran a lot of used tires too. I have several truck salvage yards I keep and eye on that sometimes have real good tires at good prices. I usually only by sets of at least four tires and like to get eight. I can usually get them with 60%-80% tread for $150-200.

Best buy recently was a set of 10 (two steers and 8 drives) Michelin tires that only have 3000 miles on them. The came on a new truck 8 years ago. The fellow did not like the traction they had. He put a full set of new tires on of a different tread pattern. He keep the original tires. He traded trucks and traded the tires into a local tire dealer. I bought those tires for $225 each. Those tires new are over $500. The only thing is they are eight years old. They where stored inside out of the sunlight but they do have some age on them.

That being said I quit running any used tires on the steering axle. I have had three used steer tires blow out in a 7-8 year period from tires that where major brands and looked like new as far as thread wear/weathering. The first caused a truck accident/roll. The next two just got the rims. Even looking at the tires after they blew you could not see any thing wrong with them. The first one I still feel was some thing laying in the road. It had a straight cut across the thread but we could not find anything. The other two showed cord separations. I feel those tires were damaged on the original trucks. Remember about the only newer tires are going to come from newer trucks that get wrecked. Not many new tires get put on old worn out trucks that get scrapped. This was three tires out of 100-150 tires I have bought used over the years.

Just looked at my latest tire price quotes an Pomp's tire has Hankook steer tires for $265 + FET. So you talking under $600 for a new set. I would just get a set of new tires on the steering axle and feel safer driving down the road.

At 3000 miles a year any brand you buy will most likely dry rot before you wear them out.
But steer tires is no place to skimp and try to save a buck.

Had 22+ years of selling truck tires. Firestone lasted longest on our gravel, if the guys were running all
highway the ones with the decoupler groove worked best. Most of the guys running over the road ran Michlins
or Firestone's. Our county road crews ran all Firestone's, both steer and drivers. Its been 12 years since I
sold these and I cannot remember the tire model numbers.

I don?t know much about tires, but when I drove
school bus I would only put Hancook (sp?) on them.
I had really good luck. It?s been so long since I put
tires on the semis here I can?t remember but one
and I think it got Hancooks in the drive axle, but the
stock trailer that pulls the Belgians got Hancooks.
For sure.

I liked the 362 tread for drives and the tread with the one groove in the middle. Want to think it was a 199 or something like that. Of course they discontinued them. all were Goodyears. Liked Dunlops on the trailer. For the mileage you are talking though any decent tire will out last the condition of time.

thanks for all the input, i dont know enough guys to get a good feel for whats out there anymore and whats lasting or wearing out in 15-20k miles. that tire website kinda threw me off with way more options than i was expecting.

however, i do not believe in the statement that any new tire will do. I have some drive tires that dated back to 01 that show zero cracks, dry rot, sidewall splits etc, and tread still looks fine, and i have had some others that were less than 4 years old blow up while sitting there on the truck. And two of those were a brand name.

I may try to price some hancooks around here and see what they have, maybe see if they have a 362 type.

Wasnt planning on trying to save a buck for steer tires...thats kinda why i asked what guys who are actually running trucks are using.....and how they are getting along with them, not asking if anybody had some scab steer tires i could get for 20 bucks....