When the come from the tire manufacturer, they expect them to go on with the arrow pointing in the direction of the rotation of the tire.

But these are off the road use tires, and go through tremendous abuse. The manufacturer claims longer life, but these tires never get the chance, at that kind of life anyway.

Most likely they will be punctured, or some other fate, that will shorten their life anyway, and if you were to talk to a tire manufacturer Representative, everything they promise to warranty, they double talk around, and tell you you should of not done that, even though it says you can, cause I have talked to several different reps. from different manufacturers, and they have the same story, you are always in the wrong.

That, or he will say you mounted them wrong, when you had a tire man that has been doing his job for over 15 years, and is proud of his work. So the time difference doesn't matter which direction they point, cause most likely they won't be on there long enough to tell any way, so that is why you see them in all different directions, when they get older.

This is true with Army, Marines, civilians, any off road operation, they just don't have the time to keep things perfect, cause they have way more then one truck to take care of.

Now I only had one truck, and when I put a new set on, I done like they said, but I don't know if that made a difference. The first set wore uneven cause of faulty rubber, course they blamed me on air pressure. then the second set same way.

Then the third set wore perfect, I treated them exactly the same as the first 2 set's, but I got the full 300,000 miles out of them, before they wore down to the wear bars, and I was totally happy, so I thought.

The only thing, when we went to take them off the rims to replace them, everyone of them the beads around the rims broke lose from the tire, leaving me with no trade in's, so I change to street tread after that, so I didn't haft to worry about the rubber rotting with a 100,000 mile life span.

I was total shocked that none of them blew up going down the road, cause like I said, as soon as they tried to take them off the rims, they all broke completely around the whole tire, where they seal next to the rim, all 8 drive tires were Luger's for off road, and extended mileage.
Kerry