Big, angled lugs (tread blocks) provide terrific grip in mud. Small blocks with minimal depth that are densely packed across the surface of the tractor tire spread load and minimize impact.

A tire's tread pattern plays a very important role in the amount of noise the tire produces, amongst other things like how much life your tires have left and the road surface you are driving on.

Big, angled lugs (tread blocks) provide terrific grip in mud. Small blocks with minimal depth that are densely packed across the surface of the tractor tire spread load and minimize impact.

Selecting the right tread pattern for tires used on the often-hostile road surface of a construction site, as shown here on this dump truck, can help resist "chipping and chunking" caused by stones ...

You have probably noticed that different tires have different tread patterns. Here are the reasons for the various patterns and why they have grooves.

Of course, we're talking about tire-tread patterns. Be they full of grooves, packed with interlocking blocks, zig-zagged with sipes, or totally slick, you can learn a lot about a vehicle's ...

While tread spacing and stagger is still key in a true mud tire, the addition of extra sipes, biting edges, and block alignment, is upping the on-road benefits of the modern mud-terrain radial.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bridgestone Americas Inc. has developed a line of agriculture tires, dubbed the Firestone Maxi Traction, designed to deliver improved traction and treadwear versus previous ...

If your car is noisy, it could be due to your tires, because of the tread. Here's everything you need to know and how each one affects your road noise.