The wall
New Tires
Cooper, Mastercraft, Falken, Hercules, Delinte, Dick Cepek and Mickey Thompson on the showroom wall. If your size isn't on the shelf, we order it in.
How we buy and how we stock
Seven brands on the wall isn't an accident. Highway tires, all terrains and mud terrains sit side by side because a lot of what comes through the door in this parish is a work truck, not a sedan. When a size or a tread isn't in stock we order it, and we've brought in staggered fitments for cars decades old that most places would have turned away. Gordon DeVore's set for a thirty year old vehicle came in from out of state and was mounted before lunch the same day it arrived.
Bailey's Tire Service, walk in during opening hours or ask us to check a size before you drive over. Call (985) 876-5082.
Picking the right tread for a work truck
Load rating matters more on a work truck than most drivers realize. A tire rated below what the vehicle needs will run hotter, wear faster and handle worse under a trailer or a loaded bed, even if the size is technically correct. We check the door placard load range against the tire before we sell it, not after.
Highway tires ride quieter and last longer on pavement, but they lose grip fast in standing water and give up traction on shell or dirt roads. All terrains split the difference. Mud terrains bite hardest off pavement and are the loudest and shortest lived on the interstate. The right answer depends on where the truck actually spends its week, not on what looks toughest on the shelf.
Heat and standing water do more damage to rubber down here than most drivers expect. South Louisiana summers cook the compound faster than a drier climate would, and a tire that sits in a flooded lot or a wet ditch line regularly ages from the outside in, even with plenty of tread left. Rotation and a look at the sidewalls at every visit catches most of that before it becomes a blowout.