Interstate 80 is 350 miles north of Bakersfield, the OP’s destination.
Though studded tires are banned in most states, my father had them on one of our cars in the 60s. I delivered chicken&pizzas, our company cars had studded snow tires, they worked very well. When I watch cars and trucks sliding all over the roads and crashing, my opinion is the cost of all those accidents is greater than the damage caused to roads by studded tires.
You’re overlooking that studded tires have worse traction on wet roads.
I only used them in winter, you remove them when the ice melts in the spring, therefore not driven on wet roads. We used them through several winters.
Huh? Where do you live that the roads stay freezing all winter long? Here in NH the average temp for most of the winter is above freezing.
The roads are never wet during the winter? Don’t they salt the roads to keep them wet during precipitation?
Yes studded tires may offer less traction on wet pavement, but is it really that much less to cause a big concern?
If I were looking for the stud traction advantage on ice or hard pack snow, I wouldn’t worry about what I might be giving up on wet pavement.
Minnesota, salt/sand creates slush, bridges often have ice. Rarely have wet streets, either snow & ice on residential and side streets, dry pavement on major roads.
Obviously if you live in a place that does not routinely have snow and ice, no need for studded tires. The point is moot in as much as studded tires are not legal.
Now I live in Florida, I am primarily interested in wet traction.
Well, we have had a good time, after a few rainy days and fabulous days after that, there was even a welcome from a shark on the Central Coast, it is time to head back this weekend. We should head out on Saturday, but will probably get going on Sunday. We do not want to be too relaxed given our good luck on the outbound – we took the direct, I-80/76/70/15/CA-58/41 route , so would like to hear suggestions.
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