Goodyear Endurance LHS

This is a steer-axle tire for tractors that run interstate and super-regional lanes and pull tires off for wear, not damage. Goodyear’s own positioning is its best long haul and super-regional steer tire for high miles to removal, and the whole design points at that one job: wear the rib down slow and flat, then hand back a casing worth retreading. It is badged Steer/All Position. Goodyear put 13 fleets and more than 13 million combined test miles behind it, and publishes removals at 175,000 miles, 186,000 miles, and more than 210,000 miles in one fleet test.

The mechanism is a short list of features Goodyear names itself. An optimized wear-resistant tread compound is what it credits for the extra-long miles to removal. A dual-layer tread — two layers of tread structure, not a two-part compound — carries uniform stiffness for slow, even wear. A pressure distribution groove helps promote long, even wear. Under all of it, premium rigid casing construction holds a consistent footprint under load and is built for maximum retreadability, which is the real point of the tire: the casing is the asset, the tread is the consumable. The sidewall runs an advanced compound that Goodyear says helps lower rolling resistance, and that is what earns the EPA SmartWay verification this tire carries. Tread depth is 18/32" in every size and both load ranges.

It is not a drive or trailer tread. The rib pattern has no lug bite, so on a drive axle you have no traction under torque; Goodyear’s linehaul drive is the Endurance LHD. It is not a winter tire either. Goodyear publishes no 3PMSF symbol and no M+S marking for the LHS anywhere, so do not spec it for snow duty. It is not mixed service. Construction, waste haul and aggregate work belong on the Endurance WHA or Armor Max MSA line, and putting a linehaul rib casing off-road is outside its published application. Speed is capped at 75 mph, speed symbol L, in every size. It is made in four sizes only — 11R22.5, 11R24.5, 285/75R24.5 and 295/75R22.5 — with no 275/80R22.5 and no 315/80R22.5 in this model. 11R24.5 and 295/75R22.5 come in both 14-ply load range G and 16-ply H; 11R22.5 and 285/75R24.5 are 16-ply H only. Watch one pressure: 295/75R22.5 in 16-ply H needs 123 psi, not the 120 psi the other H sizes run, to reach its rated load. 285/75R24.5 is approved on an 8.25 inch rim only. And do not plan on a retread going back on the steer axle — Goodyear publishes no long-haul steer retread pattern, so an LHS casing comes back as a drive or trailer cap. There is no mileage or tread-life warranty on Goodyear commercial truck tires; the seven years is casing coverage, not a mileage guarantee.

If the axle job is the same, have us quote the Invovic FM303 alongside it. The FM303 is our factory-direct steer and all-position radial, molded in Cambodia and built for the same regional and long-haul steer duty — in one size, 295/75R22.5, in 16 ply only, against the Endurance LHS’s four. It also runs 14/32 of tread where the Goodyear runs 18/32. What separates the two beyond that is documentation, so here is the documentation. Behind the Endurance LHS sit the Goodyear Unisteel casing warranty — the casing covered through the first retread for seven years from the casing DOT date, and for unlimited retreads inside those seven years when a Goodyear Authorized Retreader does the work — the named UniCircle and Precure retread programs, EPA SmartWay verification, published fleet-test mileage, and a full Engineering Data Book entry for every size and load range. The FM303 comes with none of that on paper: no published casing warranty, no named retread program, no SmartWay verification, no fleet-test miles on the record. If you run a casing program, or your lanes require SmartWay verified equipment, that decides it and the answer is the Endurance LHS. If neither applies, put both on one quote and compare the two all-in delivered numbers we send back.