Tire

Monster Truck tires are specially designed tires for monster trucks.

History
Today's standard monster truck tires are derived from tires that were used for years on farm equipment such as tractors. Bob Chandler, who is argued to be the inventor of monster truck and built Bigfoot, kept putting larger and larger tires on his truck until he decided to recycle some old tractor tires for his truck. Using these same tires, Bob managed to get the truck to crush some cars, much to the audience's delight. These tires have since become the regular monster truck standard.

Description
The average monster truck tires is exactly 66 inches tall and 43 inches wide. They can weight anywhere from 800-900lbs, taking up about a third of the truck's average 10,000lb weight.

A team can go through as many as eight tires in a single year. Tires can cost $2500-$7500 each.

Firestone and Goodyear have, for years, been the leading brands in monster truck tires. In recent years, BKT has been sponsoring Monster Jam and has been the official provider for Monster Jam's truck tires.

A majority of trucks have their tires facing forward with the tire stripes pointing downwards. On occasion, trucks may run some, or all tires facing the opposite direction. This may be for stylistic reasons, or because the backwards facing tire is an opposite side replacement for a flat.

Trailer Wheels
Monster truck tires are so large that trucks with their regular tires cannot fit into their transportation trailers. Because of this, the tires have to be mounted on and unmounted back off after every show weekend. Much smaller tires are put onto the truck so it can be driven back into its trailer.

Trailers have doors on the side that allow for the tires to go in and out easily when loading and unloading the truck.

"Cutting"
Not all monster truck tires look the same, although they are all delivered as such. Monster truck tires can be "cut" to fit a specific design. Cutting each tires takes approximately 50 consecutive hours. Tire cutting is done for more than just appearance, it is also done to accommodate driver's style of driving as well as the driving conditions the truck will mostly be driven in.

Although all tires are delivered the same, the style inwhich tires are delivered may vary, depending on the manufacture of the tires.