Yokohama BluEarth 109L

The BluEarth 109L is Yokohama’s fuel-focused trailer tire for long-haul and regional-haul work. Yokohama names two applications for it: closed-axle trailers and spread-axle trailers. That means vans, reefers and flatbeds that run highway miles all week and still get shoved into a tight dock at the end of them. BluEarth is Yokohama’s badge for its most fuel-focused tires, and the 109L carries EPA SmartWay verification. It comes in load range G, 14 ply, in all four sizes we quote.

Yokohama credits five things, and it is worth keeping them straight. The optimized tread pattern is what resists scaling, the rubber a trailer tire tears off in the lateral slides that come with tight maneuvering. The compact tread blocks roll smoothly for fuel efficiency, and Yokohama attributes tracking to the five-rib design. A single advanced stress control groove sits at the shoulder to resist damage from sharp turns or accidental curbing. Yokohama calls the casing ultra-durable, and the 109L is named by model on its Seven Year, Unlimited Retread Warranty — casing coverage, not tire coverage, and it holds only for casings retreaded in a manner consistent with standard industry practice. The compound is where the fuel story lives: Yokohama says it resists wear and provides one of the lowest rolling resistance coefficients in the category. That is Yokohama’s exact wording, hedge included, and we leave the hedge in. All four sizes run 12/32 of tread and are built in the USA at West Point, Mississippi.

It is not a steer or drive tire. Yokohama publishes no all-position and no drive application, so spec it behind the kingpin. One nuance fleet buyers ask about: the 109L is not stamped a Free Rolling Tire. Yokohama reserves that designation, and its no-other-position fitment prohibition, for other part numbers. It is not severe-snow rated either, with no 3PMSF symbol and no published M+S marking, so it will not satisfy a winter traction spec. Load range G only, so if your spec calls for a 16-ply H-range trailer casing, this is not it. Four sizes and no more: 11R22.5, 11R24.5, 285/75R24.5 and 295/75R22.5. And it is not a weight play. It carries 12/32 of tread where the major-brand load-range-G trailer tires on this store — Michelin X Line Energy T2, Bridgestone R123 Ecopia and Firestone FT492 — carry 11/32, and it weighs more for that rubber: 109 lb in 11R22.5 against 103 to 105 lb for those three. There is no mileage warranty. Coverage runs to the 2/32 wear indicators or five years from purchase, whichever comes first.

Our own Invovic FM591 is the factory-direct trailer tire in the same position. Same axle, same job, opposite bet on tread — 19/32 to 20/32 against the 109L’s 12/32, which trades rolling resistance for removal miles. The rest of the difference is what each maker puts on paper. The 109L is named on Yokohama’s Seven Year, Unlimited Retread Warranty — casing coverage, conditional on standard-practice retreading — carries EPA SmartWay verification, is built in the USA at West Point, Mississippi, and Yokohama publishes a weight for every size. Invovic’s sheets carry none of that: no casing-warranty program, no SmartWay listing, no published per-size weights, and the tire is imported from Cambodia. Neither maker names a branded retread pattern for these casings, and neither tire is 3PMSF. Size coverage is the other constraint: the FM591 covers 11R22.5, 11R24.5 and 295/75R22.5, so on 285/75R24.5 there is no Invovic swap and the 109L is measured against the other majors. Put both on one quote and compare the two all-in numbers, delivered.