Both of these are big-tire markings. Both fit 25-inch rims. Both show up on wheel loaders working quarries, aggregate yards, and heavy construction sites. And yet the three inches of
An OTR tire can spend a year in a corner of your yard before it ever touches a machine — and emerge worth considerably less than the day it arrived.
A quarry tire works harder than almost any tire on earth — and rarely the way buyers assume. The defining image of aggregates work is a wheel loader feeding a
Look at the sidewall of a loader tire and you will see one of two things: 26.5R25 or 26.5-25. That single letter — the R — is the most consequential
Ask ten fleet managers who makes the best OTR tire and you will get ten different answers. That is not because the market is confusing — it is because “best”
A wheel loader, haul truck, or dozer tire is one of the most expensive single components on the machine — yet a large share of OTR tires never reach their
If you operate wheel loaders, you already know the number: 23.5-25. It is the most widely used OTR tire size on mid-size loaders worldwide — the default fitment on machines
Ports never stop. Cranes cycle around the clock, trucks queue at the gate, and every machine on the terminal is expected to run two or three shifts a day, seven
Ask ten construction fleet managers which tire they run and you will get ten different answers — not because they disagree, but because a construction site is really half a
Mining tires are the most expensive, most mission-critical tires on Earth. A single rigid dump truck tire can cost as much as a pickup truck, and one unplanned tire failure
It is the first question every fleet manager asks before signing a tire order, and the honest answer frustrates people: “it depends.” A 23.5-25 loader tire that delivers 6,000 hours
If your wheel loader spends its day in a gravel pit, you already know the story: tires that should last 3,000–5,000 hours are shot in 1,500. Gravel is the single
