Tires

Forklift Tires — Solid, Pneumatic & Press-On

Shop by the size stamped on your tire’s sidewall. Singles ship nationwide — and 2–3 items save 7.5%, 4+ save 15% automatically.

Replacing drives and steers together? Shop both sizes on one page — 2 drives + 2 steers = 4 items = 15% off automatically.

All 55 matched drive + steer sets — 44 press-on, 11 solid/pneumatic — are listed on the Quick Shop Navigator.

1Which wheel system does your forklift have?

Full sets for a specific truck? Shop by equipment — cushion forklift sets or pneumatic forklift sets  ·  Not sure which you have? Read the Buying Guide → or call 1 (866) 313-2180

▼ Featured forklift tires are listed below. Use the filters to narrow by construction, compound, and brand.

Verify exact tire size and fitment before ordering — check the size on your current tire’s sidewall.  ·  Warranty-backed  ·  Supplying fleets, dealers & government buyers nationwide.

Press-On, Mold-On, Solid Resilient or Pneumatic — Telling Them Apart

Most ordering mistakes in this trade come from four words that get used interchangeably and mean different things. The wheel already bolted to your truck decides which one you need — not preference, and not what the last supplier sent.

Press-on forklift tires are a rubber cushion bonded to a one-piece steel band. They mount on a flat-base hub and go on with a hydraulic press, which is why you cannot fit one in the field with hand tools. Polyurethane press-ons use the same flat-base hub and the same press, but a poly compound instead of rubber — non-marking, cooler running under continuous electric duty, and higher load for the same footprint. Mold-on tires look similar but the rubber is moulded directly onto a wheel that ships as one unit, which is what most scissor and boom lifts take. Solid forklift tires are a single rubber casting with no air chamber, mounted on a multi-piece bolted rim — a split rim or a lock-ring wheel. Pneumatic tube-type tires use that same bolted rim but run on air with a tube and flap.

The last number is the part everyone gets wrong

On a press-on tire the last number is the hub diameter — the flat steel base the tire presses onto. On a solid or pneumatic tire the last number is the rim diameter. Same position on the sidewall, two different measurements, and it is the single most common reason a tire arrives that will not fit.

21x7x15 is a press-on with a 15″ hub. 28x9-15 is a solid or pneumatic on a 15″ rim. The tires are not interchangeable and the wheels are not either.

We stock press-on hub diameters of 4″, 5″, 6″, 6-1/4″, 6-1/2″, 8″, 10″, 10-1/2″, 11-1/4″, 12-1/8″, 14″, 15″, 16″, 17-3/4″, 20″ and 22″. The odd fractional ones — 6-1/4″, 11-1/4″, 12-1/8″, 17-3/4″ — are where fitment goes wrong most often, because they read as 6″, 11″, 12″ and 18″ at a glance. Measure the hub, do not eyeball it.

Polyurethane is the exception to all of this: it is catalogued by wheel ID rather than by tire size, because the inside diameter is what has to match. Polyurethane press-ons by wheel ID runs from 4″ through 30″.

Compound and tread, in plain terms

Non-marking means the carbon black is left out so the tire will not streak a finished floor — standard in food, pharmaceutical and clean-room work, and available in both rubber cushion and polyurethane. Smooth tread gives you maximum contact patch and the longest wear on clean indoor concrete. Traction tread trades some of that wear life for grip on ramps, wet docks and swept-but-gritty floors. If you are weighing tread patterns against each other, our guide to forklift tire tread patterns covers it properly.

The small parts that keep a bolted rim together

If you run split-rim or lock-ring wheels you will eventually need the hardware, not the tire: tubes, liner flaps, O-rings and the right valve stem. Valve stems are ordered by part number, not by size — TR75A/TR440, TR77A/TR442, TR78A/TR444, TR175A/TR443, TR179A/TR445, TR218A, TR220A, TR300, TRJ1175C and TRJS2 are the ones that cover almost every industrial wheel we sell. Tubes, flaps, O-rings and valve stems are all stocked separately.

Buying drives and steers together

On a four-wheel truck the drive tires carry the load and wear out first; the steers usually have a season left in them. Replacing all four at once costs less per tire than doing it twice — two drives plus two steers is four items, which triggers the automatic 15% multi-item discount. Our matched set pages put both sizes in one cart so the drive and steer cannot get mismatched.

Not sure what is on your truck? Read the size off the sidewall, or read the data plate and call it in — 1 (866) 313-2180. We supply fleets, dealers and government buyers nationwide, and we would rather talk you into the right tire than process a return.