Depending on which industry statistics you find most reliable, somewhere between 85% to 90% of commercial trucking fleets retread their tires at least one time. A retread is approximately 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of a new tire, and so it clearly is in the fleet's best interest to protect this valuable tire casing from damage. Depending on your specific service vocation, tires running in pickup and delivery service may retread a casing as many as three or four times, while tires running in linehaul service will typically get one or two retreads. This difference is because tires running in pickup-and- delivery-type city service will scrub the treads off much more quickly due to increased turning compared to tires running in a purely linehaul operation.
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