Dealers have more choices than ever when matching skid steer tire tread patterns to specific applications for their customers. "The skid steer product line looks a lot more like a small OTR or medium truck type of offering now," says Nick Phillippi, general manager of Nebraskaland Tire Co. Inc., which also does business as Kansasland Tire and Coloradoland Tire. Dealers now have opportunities to stock tread patterns, tread depths and ply ratings, as well as radial and all-steel skid steer tires, that did not exist just five years ago. "Ten years ago we were still dealing with two or three tread patterns," says Phillippi. "The Denman and Galaxy brands were the leaders trying to get different patterns and styles involved with a specific tire. But Titan, Michelin and everybody else started doing the same thing in the last five years."
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