Tire Recommendations

[bucket]

^This.
And I noticed that about the AT3KO’s. I have yet to have opportunity to run a set of them. I always liked the previous versions for snow traction and longevity. My guess is a shift not unlike other mfgs to aggressive looking tires that have great road manners for the zillions of tough looking pavement pounders running around (myself included).
Bottom line is most all tires perform at least relatively well for their intended use when the tread depth is >50% and traction is almost as much a factor of tire pressure and newer more pliable rubber as it is specific tread design. (R/T tread designs being a decided exception when it comes to snow. I don’t like that design)
And back to the OPs original question. Pick a tire that looks good in his budget and it’ll be fine for his stated use.

Interesting! I've never run any type of "R/T" tire, until I got a set on the work truck this last fall. Honestly, this set I got kicks a$$ in the snow. I wasn't aware that "R/T" was a thing, other than how Falken branded this specific model.

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Well, I guess I've had other RT tires... but they were the old bias ply Goodyear Wranger RT II's of the early 80's. Completely different animal.

 

[EvilGenius]

I have a set of Cooper Discoverer Road + Trail on my daily driver pickup that I really like. Tons of siping for wet/snow traction and it's pretty quiet. Tread rating is excellent at 65k miles. I've been impressed with it so far, but I'm also a Cooper Tires fan in general.

Only hiccup with them so far is they took a lot of weights to balance out. They did balance out fine, just first tire I've had that stacked the wheel weights on top of each other. Might just be my batch of tires though. I got them pretty close to when they first came out so might have been some fine tuning needed in the manufacturing.

 

[Grit dog]

Interesting! I've never run any type of "R/T" tire, until I got a set on the work truck this last fall. Honestly, this set I got kicks a$$ in the snow. I wasn't aware that "R/T" was a thing, other than how Falken branded this specific model.

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Well, I guess I've had other RT tires... but they were the old bias ply Goodyear Wranger RT II's of the early 80's. Completely different animal.

Ya I wasn’t referring to RT in the same general sense as AT or MT. I was referring specifically to the Toyo and Nitto versions which look nothing like that tire you posted.
I didn’t even know other brands used the RT descriptor.