North Carolina allows retreaded steer tires on all medium and heavy duty Class 8 trucks. NOT allowed on buses! Trash, refuse, and concrete mixer trucks often used retreads on the steer axle. These trucks have more problems with sidewall punctures and tears from running in bad areas than from blowouts and tread separation. Proper air pressure and frequent inspections can eliminate most problems with ALL tires.
I don't run steer retreads on the tractor-trailer dumps or quad-axle dumps that I own now. However I did run them on the concrete mixer trucks that my family owned 12 years ago. The mixer trucks generally run no faster than 55 MPH and no further than 15 miles from plant to jobsite. We had no more problems with them than we did with the new steer tires. We only allowed one Bandag recap on the casing after making sure there was absolutely no damage to the casing.
Federal Motor Carrier Regs allow them to be run on the interstate also.
The quickest way to verify this is to do a google search using 'retread steer tire legal' and check the results!
Hope this helps, JAMES
