Owner-operators and commercial fleets need a commercial truck tire that’s versatile, dependable, and can deliver year-round performance, and that’s what the BlackHawk BTR60 has to offer. The BTR60 is a commercial tire that’s designed for all positions on trucks in regional service, and has a set of features and materials that are optimized for those roles. Let’s go in and take a closer look at this BlackHawk BTR60 review:

Features and Benefits

Here are some of the design features that make the BTR60 from Blackhawk a real standout when it comes to value and performance for commercial fleets:

• 4-belt steel belt ply gives the BTR60 great load capacity, stability, and durability
• Tread compound is engineered for long wear, traction, resistance to cuts, punctures, and other damage
• Wide circumferential grooves divert water away from the tire’s contact patch for all-season performance and resistance to hydroplaning on wet roads
• Solid shoulders are designed to encourage even wear and resist scrub damage and wear
• High initial tread depth for long wear and good traction on wet or snowy pavement
• Durable enough for applications such as dump trucks, fuel trucks, sanitation trucks, ready mix
• 20-ply rating for carrying extremely heavy loads
• Stone ejectors molded into a base of tread grooves to easily shed gravel and debris, protecting the casing and preventing stone drilling
• Retreadable for long service, resulting in a good cost/mile ratio

Pros and Cons

As a wide base commercial tire, the BlackHawk BTR60 provides dependable performance across all positions. It is specially designed for highway service on all regional applications. Given below are its pros and cons:

PROS:

• Versatile tire that’s suitable for all positions on commercial trucks
• Scrub-resistant tread compound is a good choice for stop-and-start route use or regional highway applications
• Deep initial tread depth
• Tremendous load-carrying capacity
• Durable design for a variety of applications
• Retreadable casing and solid shoulders extend service life

CONS:

• Not suitable for off-road or heavy-duty mixed-service applications
• Not good in heavier winter weather

SimpleTire’s view on BlackHawk BTR60 tires

Are you acquainted with SimpleScore? SimpleScore is our rating method that gives customers an easy, at-a-glance overview of a tire’s strengths and weaknesses. We look at manufacturer information, the tire’s spec sheet, customer reviews and other data points, then take that information and calculate it to generate 1-10 numerical values for the categories of traction, handling and longevity, as well as an overall average SimpleScore. For the BlackHawk BTR60, the SimpleScore looks like this:

BlackHawk BTR60:

• Traction: 7.0
• Handling: 7.0
• Longevity: 7.0
• Overall average SimpleScore: 7.3

The solid shoulder design of the BlackHawk BTR60 does a great job of fending off uneven wear; as any vehicle starts to round a corner or negotiate a curve, its momentum and weight try to keep moving forward, which causes stresses on a tire’s shoulder and sidewall. The solid shoulder of the BlackHawk helps to resist those stresses and scrub damage for even wear properties. Year-round performance is also a strength, thanks to the extra-deep, wide circumferential grooves that work as a system to avoid hydroplaning.

The steel belt package and stone ejectors give the BlackHawk BTR60 good durability, although it’s not really suitable for rough service and is more of a highway tire. Its scrub-resistant tread compound is a good choice for route work with lots of stops and starts, and the casing is designed for multiple retread cycles, so that operators can get the most out of its service life and improve cost/mile ratio.

Vehicles the BlackHawk BTR60 is a good replacement tire for

The BlackHawk BTR60 is a good choice for all positions on commercial trucks for regional highway applications such as:

• Refuse and sanitation trucks
• Route P&D trucks
• Moving vans
• Tankers
• Dump trucks
• Car haulers
• Ready mix trucks
• Vendor trucks