Ken: A lot of high equipment is trucked with tires flat, however it's blocked under the axles, for a number of reasons. Lowers height, protects tires and bind chains or straps stay tight better.
I realize this is a bit different as they drive them on with air in tires, and often times will leave enough air pressure to give tires some grip on trailer deck.
The first time I ever hauled a machine long distance was a self propelled forage harvester with flotation tires. Had it chained on 4 corners and on rough asphalt it just kept breaking chains. After about 300 miles I stopped at a hardware store, got him to chop me up some 6x6 blocking. I let enough air out so machine came down placing most of the weight on blocking. Next 900 miles never broke a chain.
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