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Load bearing trailer tires are important. You will find the car tires will last for a time and carry loads short distances but if you carry large weights long distances the temperature will build up and the tires will break down.
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Get them filled with nitrogen. Any good tire dealer will have a nitrogen filling capacities. I have been filling every tire I have with it. Along with company vehicles. Works really well with over the road trucks and trailers. They are seaming to last much longer.
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Would the nitrogen keep the tires cooler or what? The problem I have is I want to make sure the trailer will be ok for a 200 mile or more trip! I don't plan on ever pulling that far but I would want it to be safe for me to use under these conditions.
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If a tire over heats the air pressure in the tire can increase contributing to the blow out. Nitrogen does not transfer the heat as easily. This is the same as filling a dual pane window with Argon or Nitrogen.
This does not overcome a poorly designed tire, not built to carry weight.
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Inflate the tires to their max rated pressure for max load (shown on the carcass of the tire) load up the trailer and go. Stop and check the tempreture of the bearings and tires after 5-6 miles at highway speed. Then stop and do this every 50 miles or so.
Your setup is nearly the as what my trailer is. It'll work fine.
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Even if passenger car (metric designation PXXX/XX/15) or light truck tires (designated LTXXX/XX/15) were capable of carrying the load, they wont work well on a trailer.
A true trailer tire (designated STXXX/XX/15, ST means Special Trailer) has MUCH stiffer sidewalls than 'regular' tires do, the difference in the way a trailer will ride on them is huge. Passenger car tires will make it bounce and wobble and will allow too much side-roll in a hard corner. Remember, trailers don't have shock absorbers to reduce the bounce.
Best of luck.
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Thanks for all the advice, I guess I'll get some tires rated for a Trailer. (thanks Murf) Murf how are the Canadians coming along with their oil recovery (from sand) sounds like you guys are a way ahead of us on the oil situation!
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Hey, you maen somebody outside of the oil business and / or Cannuckistan knows about our oil sands, cool!!! 
As of last year the oil sands project now accounts for more than half of all of canada's oil production, and a staggering 10+% of all oil production for North America!!
There is some controversy over it still though. The process being used is only recovering about 75% of the oil in the sands.
Best of luck.
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I called the Trailer Manufacture (M&M) and the said the trailer should have ST205/75R15 6 ply tires on it. The carrying capacity would be 5500lbs. He felt the tires I had would be OK. I ordered the 6ply tires today as I'm to darned old to be sitting along the road changing a darn tire!
I guess the 5500lb capacity should be ok!
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Bob... is 5500 the Gross or Net capacity of the trailer?
Which stuff from your list will be on your 4110 when you are towing?
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