I don’t doubt your expertise in your area. You certainly manage well.

I pulled off the side of a gravel lane into a mowed grassy area. The truck slid about 40 feet and luckily stopped just before the trees. So, maybe they were good to stop me at all!

Last month I bought a set of BF Goodrich all terrain radials for wife’s Expedition. This is the second set of this tire for this vehicle. Traction in mud and snow has been excellent. These new tires have a nice ride. Maybe the old worn out set was tired. Price seemed very high at $1,292. They have added side tread since the last set.

If you do any type of driving in the wintah ...like 12,000 miles or so....The Blizzacks will last you 2 winters if your lucky. The tire compound is as soft as a pencil eraser. But they are excellent in all wintah conditions. I had a pair ..once.

Just remembered the name of the tires we used to buy - Firestone Town & Country snow tires. Large and small lugs. They were studdable. If stuck in snow, just floor it. Oh the miserable days before I had anything 4wd. Now everything I own is 4wd.

I think we will settle on Bridgestone Weatherpeak all season. They are rated for 70K miles. She only puts on about 7,000 miles a year.

Anybody familiar with those?

The Weatherpeak are a very new to market, crossover type tire, I believe. They will likely be somewhere in between a regular all season and a winter tire. Tire compounds are becoming more and more advanced all the time, but these won't provide the same level of performance as a "winter tire".

I think I got over 40k on my last set of blizzaks. All in one winter though. I always leave them on and finish them off since they're not getting saved for the following winter. Got over 50k out of the Michelin X-ice. I always start the winter off on fresh winter tires for work though.

99% of roads around here are paved, so maybe Duratrac aren't for me

If you are mostly on paved roads you dont need a tire with a real agressive tread.

What's wrong with Duratracs?

Honestly I have been impressed by only one Goodyear tire - the Marathon trailer tire.

Various Wrangler iterations have been lousy. The Wrangler Duratracs Kevlar came on my 2019 F-350 single rear wheel. I have used the truck mostly on unpaved roads and off-road. The tires have been disappointing in mud. As stated previously, maybe they do well on a lighter truck. I have used them only a few times in snow here at home because my truck hibernates when the salt trucks start running.

Just to show the differences in ideas on tires Duratracs are some of the best tires i've run on my tacoma. enough so that i could put another set on when its time to swap out. if i opt to not put them on, it'll be because ive opted for MT's instead.

What I know of the downside of them to be are that they dont have the strongest sidewalls, they will chunk in the rocks and they have a relatively short life span. This isnt rock country so I dont care at all about the chunking. I've got about 32k miles on a set but they likely only have 8-10k good miles left. They wont give you the mileage of AT likely. if your on pavement alot and can get by picking and choosing your offroad driving a common AT tire is probably better option and most seem to handle offroad snow and hard pack road snow decent.

around here i'd say that most trucks are sitting on AT's of some type. i've run about every brand. i've stopped using them as theres not a set out there that can handle actual mud. once youve packed the tight spaced tread with clay virtually no amount of tire spin is going clean them or move you forward unless youre crawling with traction control. for the cross over/tweener tires that span between AT's and MT's there are about 3 that are common here-------duratrac, st maxx and klevers. The cooper maxx are likely the best on road, in the rocks and snowy conditions and they last forever. if that covers your needs they are great option. once they hit our mud, they are no better than many AT's i've run. duratracs strength is mud, theyve taken me across many open worked up clay field after a week of rain sunk all the way to the rims than i had any business being in. but they are not MT's either. klevers tend to split the difference. if you are on pavement and just winter snow, a snow flake rated AT is probably a much better option for you

For winter only, any aggressive tread is ok with me

I ended up getting the Goodyear Authority. Awesome tires. They are only sold at Wal-Mart I think.

this is not true.
I have run Blizzaks all year round on my daily driver for over 2 years. yes the softest rubber is on the outside and it'll wear quickest, but the remainder is still better than your average all season tire.

I run a nokian tire on my car now. Its a special all year round tire that does not wear like a blizzak but is meant to be driven all year and is excellent in the snow/ice unlike most all season tires.
For those of you who don't know Nokian is a Finnish company that is most likely the best in the world when it comes to winter tires.
So impressed by them I put a set on my wifes minivan when she needed new tires.

winter driving is ALL about traction, that means its all about the tires, nothing more, a 2wd car with the great winter tires is always better than 4wd with average tires.