Goodyear Endurance LHD

A long-haul drive tire for the tractor that runs the same interstate lane every week and comes off the axle on tread depth, not on trouble. Goodyear’s own positioning is direct: its best tough long haul drive tire for high miles to removal. It sits at the deep end of Goodyear’s linehaul drive range — 30/32" on every size — and it is still EPA SmartWay verified for low rolling resistance. That combination is the unusual part — Goodyear’s own fuel-economy drive, the Fuel Max LHD 2, buys its verification by dropping to 24/32". We quote it in 11R22.5, 11R24.5, 285/75R24.5 and 295/75R22.5.

The tread is a closed shoulder at 30/32" — 6/32" more rubber than every other Goodyear long-haul drive, which all run 24/32". A closed shoulder gives the drive axle a continuous edge around the tire instead of separate shoulder blocks, which is the long-haul convention when even wear over high miles matters more than bite off the pavement edge. TredLock Technology covers what a closed shoulder normally costs you in the wet. Goodyear describes it this way: running straight, the microgrooves stay separated and provide enhanced traction in wet weather; on a turn they come together and interlock into one block, stabilizing the tread to help prevent irregular wear. Under the tread, Goodyear credits a cap/base tread combination and new casing compounds for the longer miles to removal and the lower rolling resistance, and a steel belt package for casing toughness. This is a premium casing tier, built from new to be recapped.

Drive axle only. Goodyear lists the Endurance LHD under Long Haul, Drive in both its product application guide and its retread guide, and does not offer or recommend it in a steer or trailer position. It is also strictly a highway tire: the Unisteel warranty excludes chip and chunk damage on tires intended for highway service, so gravel, quarry, logging, waste haul and construction-site work are the wrong duty cycle for it. It is M+S rated with no three-peak mountain snowflake marking, so keep it out of chain-law and severe-snow-designation lanes. Speed is capped at 75 mph on every size. On sizes, Load Range H exists only in 11R22.5 and 11R24.5. Goodyear does not build this pattern in 285/75R24.5 or 295/75R22.5 Load Range H — those two come in Load Range G only. If the spec sheet says 16 ply on a 285/75R24.5 or a 295/75R22.5, this is not the tire.

If the axle job matters more than the badge, ask about the Invovic FM770 — our factory-direct closed-shoulder long-haul drive, 27/32" against the Goodyear’s 30/32", doing the same work on the same axle. For traction-first mixed regional work, the open-shoulder Invovic FM750 is the one to ask about instead. The trade is worth stating in documented terms. The Goodyear carries a published Premium Casing provision — the casing covered for seven years through the first retread, or for an unlimited number of retreads across those seven years when a Goodyear Authorized Retreader does the retreading — and that provision names all four of the sizes we quote. It has a named matching retread, the UniCircle Endurance LHD at 26/32", EPA SmartWay verification at the tire-line level, and a manufacturer-stated United States build. The FM770 has no SmartWay verification, no published casing warranty and no named retread program of its own, and it is not built in 285/75R24.5 at all, where the Goodyear is. The FM770 is 16 ply in every size, so the two meet only in the Endurance LHD’s 16-ply 11R22.5 and 11R24.5 builds; in 295/75R22.5 the Goodyear is 14 ply and they do not overlap. Both get quoted the same way — one all-in number, delivered, free delivery inside 25 miles of Bakersfield and delivered pricing nationwide. Put both on one quote and compare the two numbers; they come back from us, and we do not guess at them here.