I need tires

[Daveb]

Stayed with the lt245/75r16 stock size. Easiest, least stressful thing to do while on the road. If these don’t work out, I will deal with it once I get home.

 

[Marky Dissod]

Stayed with GM OE LT245/75R16. Easiest, least stressful thing to do while on the road.
If these don’t work out, I will deal with it once I get home.

If for whatever reason, you need to deal with it when you get home, the two best websites that use comparable online ratings:
tirerack.com
simpletire.com

Biasing toward Load-E-rated highway tires, assuming you will NOT upgrade to 17" wheels, I'd consider
FireStone TransForce CV2 (better) or or AT2 (good) or HT3 (ok)
Yokohama Blu-Earth Van All-Season RY61
Toyo H08+
Nexen Roadian HTX2
Toyo Celsius Cargo
General Grabber H/T
Falken WildPeak H/T02
Toyo Open Country H/T II
Nokian One H/T
Kumho Crugen HT51
FireStone Destination X/T

 

[AuroraGirl]

If for whatever reason, you need to deal with it when you get home, the two best websites that use comparable online ratings:
tirerack.com
simpletire.com

Biasing toward Load-E-rated highway tires, assuming you will NOT upgrade to 17" wheels, I'd consider
FireStone TransForce CV2 (better) or or AT2 (good) or HT3 (ok)
Yokohama Blu-Earth Van All-Season RY61
Toyo H08+
Nexen Roadian HTX2
Toyo Celsius Cargo
General Grabber H/T
Falken WildPeak H/T02
Toyo Open Country H/T II
Nokian One H/T
Kumho Crugen HT51
FireStone Destination X/T

now how many of those are OWL? or RWL?
(outlined white lettering and Raised White Lettering)

 

[Marky Dissod]

now how many of those are OWL? or RWL?
(outlined white lettering and Raised White Lettering)

Whichever lettering option costs less, so long as I get the tire I want.
All I ever wanted from tires are contact patch & sidewall-structural performance / behavioral characteristics.*

*Having yanking a car from goopy mud recently, I now also consider how off-road characteristics play with or trade off of each other.

 

[AuroraGirl]

Whichever lettering option costs less, so long as I get the tire I want.
All I ever wanted from tires are contact patch & sidewall-structural performance / behavioral characteristics.*

*Having yanking a car from goopy mud recently, I now also consider how off-road characteristics play with or trade off of each other.

i had to dig my truck out of clay mud last spring around this time
THAT was Not fun I had a trailer attached and i quickly sunk down, the trailer was an anchor and the truck then was resting on the frame/axles/crossmembers.. holy cow that was work. i just did a bunch of shoveling and wheel barrow work to get 3/4 ruts filled back in so they arent big divots, i mowed around them last year lol.

 

[Marky Dissod]

https://www.gmt800.com/threads/my-02-tahoe-z71-helped-me-do-a-good-samaritan-deed-today.9440/

The auxiliary NYPD's Chevy Express wore 'comfort, ride quality, low noise' tires, and managed to get utterly stuck in ONE INCH of (goopy) mud.
Had my Z71 been wearing anything less than Sumitomo Encounter AT tires, don't think it would've successfully freed either of those vehicles.

Granted, the vast majority of the time, the truck is empty except for me and dog.
But there will always be times when I want/need to put a load in it which would severely overload these tires.

Daveb wants Load E-rated tires because wants to be ready just in case he needs to load up HEAVY.
I want off-road-able tires because I want to be ready just in case I'm forced to get mudded up.

 

[Daveb]

I am now home in SW Missouri. If anybody can use a nearly new set of these Michelin Defenders, let me know! I remember my 91 1/2 ton RCSB used non-LT tires so maybe those and light weight Burbs? would use them. I have been very happy with the Coopers i ended up buying. Very smooth and quiet. As this truck will never be off highway, I think they will make a perfect fit for me.