Take a quick look at any tire, and you’ll notice a series of letters and numbers around the sidewall. These might seem like random gibberish, but they tell you lots of helpful information about your ...

If you look at the side of your vehicle's tires, you'll notice a line of numbers. One of these number sets is the tire load index. Here's what that means.

Products that meet the new maximum load capacity must display the HL code on the sidewall ahead of the size, for example "HL 245/45 R19 101 Y XL." In this example, the tire's load capacity is 1,819 ...

Before you go shopping for new tires for your car, learn how to decode the numbers printed on the sidewalls.

American drivers are increasingly confident in their ability to tackle off-road conditions – even as challenging weather remains a key concern, according to the latest Hankook Tire Gauge Index ...

Cup and Xfinity teams will have a new left-side tire code for this weekend's races at Darlington.

NASCAR Cup Series teams head to Darlington Raceway for the second time this season, and a largely similar Goodyear Racing ...

That makes the load capacity of the new HL tires almost 25% higher. Conti did not disclose which tire model or models it's producing with the HL index nor for which OE customers they're being built.