Yokohama 715R

The 715R is a regional-haul drive tire. Yokohama built it for trucks that work a territory and come home at the end of it: day-cab tractors, straight trucks, bulk haulers, dump trucks. Pick up, deliver, run the same lanes again tomorrow. It is the rare drive tire that carries both the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake and EPA SmartWay verification, so a fleet that sees real winter does not have to trade rolling resistance for snow traction. All four sizes are the same build: Load Range H, 16 ply, 26/32" of tread at 120 psi.

The open shoulder does the traction work. Yokohama spaces the shoulder blocks for grip and, in its own words, to minimize retention of foreign objects — rocks and debris get thrown back out of the tread instead of drilled down toward the belts. Between the shoulders, Yokohama says the tread design is there to optimize even wear. Under all of it sits the casing, and that is the part Yokohama stands behind hardest: a 7-year unlimited-retread casing warranty. Read that as written — it covers the casing, not the tread, and Yokohama’s terms require the tire to have been retreaded in a manner consistent with standard industry practice. The tread itself runs under the standard limited warranty, down to 2/32" of original usable tread and not past 5 years from purchase. There is no treadwear mileage guarantee on this model.

Here is where it does not belong. Yokohama prints a warranty exclusion on the 715R bulletin in plain language: the product is not designed for use in long-haul operations, and wear from those applications will not be deemed warrantable. Read that twice before the SmartWay badge sells you. If your trucks live on the interstate, tell us the duty cycle and we will quote a long-haul drive instead. It is a drive tire and nothing else — Yokohama lists it only in the drive row, so it does not go on a steer or a trailer position. It is not an on/off-highway tire either; pit, quarry, and haul-road work want a purpose-built on/off drive. Top speed is 75 mph, speed symbol L, in every size. And it comes in exactly four sizes — 11R22.5, 11R24.5, 285/75R24.5 and 295/75R22.5 — all Load Range H. There is no Load Range G 715R, so if you are matching a 14-ply fitment, this is not the tire.

If the axle job is the same, look at the Invovic FM750, our factory-direct open-shoulder drive, molded in Cambodia and made in three of these four sizes — everything but 285/75R24.5. The trade is documented, not vague. The 715R carries the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake and EPA SmartWay verification; the FM750 carries neither. The 715R is built in the USA and backed by that 7-year unlimited-retread casing warranty on casings retreaded to standard industry practice; Invovic publishes no casing or retread warranty and no named retread program for the FM750, and neither does Yokohama name a retreader or a tread pattern of its own — the casing warranty is the document. Going the other way, Invovic publishes 27/32" of tread against the 715R’s 26/32", and the two are the same 16-ply Load Range H with the same service description in each of the three sizes they share, so load rating does not separate them. Put both on one quote and compare the two all-in delivered numbers side by side.