Bridgestone’s steer radial
Bridgestone’s new steer-axle radial–the R280–is designed to fight irregular wear during long-distance and long regional hauling.
During the early stages of wear, the tire’s footprint shape automatically optimizes itself to increase the effectiveness of Bridgestone’s patented Equalizer Rib design. The Equalizer Rib structure is one of several features of the R280 to prevent the initiation and spread of irregular wear. Among others are stress-relief siping along every rib to fight river wear, special sipe contouring to resist block wear, straight-sided ribs, and Bridgestone’s Defense Groove design to fight wavy and shoulder edge wear. The exceptionally wide tread delivers slow, even wear.
To improve retreadability, the R280 radial’s groove bottoms have platforms designed to kick out casing-damaging stones. Contact www.trucktires.com or 1-800/543-7522.
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