Ford Superduty or Dodge HD?

From : mac davis

Q: on nov 28 754 pm miles n...@nopers.com wrote roy wrote big block tread with sipes are the way to go. im not so sure of that for snow. i have the michelin lts m/s one my truck and their cross terrain on my durango. both look more like a street tire to me. not big open tread as seen on many off road tires. the open sipes help but i think the main gain for snow is the tiny hairline cuts made throughout the tread. my understanding is that they cause the blocks to flex breaking up any ice and pushing it out. the biggest problem i had with the a/s stock tires is ice build up in the tread. they quickly became ice wheels. for a good snow tire you dont want to use something that has a tread pattern like a mud tire. on the other side of that you definately dont want something that has the tread so close together that it packs. being from buffalo originally and having grown up driving there as well as down in the southern tier of ny i learned that the best tire if you dont want to get a true snow tire is a good a/t tire that is m/s rated. soemthing like the dueler at though i have also used the dueler ht with some what good results the bfg at etc. .