01-18-2011, 12:27 PM
The shipper probably would not use a front-loader. Tires are essentially hollow donuts taking up a lot of space if inefficiently loaded. I've seen trucks carry used tire loads many times on the Colorado highways, and they are always loaded carefully and compactly with an eye to using every available space in order to maximize the load. Tires loaded into gons would be loaded the same way, or chopped into large chunks if loaded by front-loader. Space=weight=money.