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Originally Posted by rbryan4
But you'd need an LT tire to be suitable on a trailer.
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Not really... but an Extra Load tire (designation ending in XL) or Load Range C tire (a designation still used on LT and commercial tires) would presumably be needed to have sufficient load capacity. Many Nokian tires - including the WR - are routinely available in XL (rather than Standard Load), but finding the right size is still a challenge.
Whatever one might think of LT tires on trailers (Goodyear, Carlisle, and others think they're perfectly suitable, selling LT tire models specifically for trailers), certainly commercial tires are suitable for trailers... all the big rigs run on them. There are commercial tires of about the diameter used by Escape, typically used by small commercial vans (such as the Ram ProMaster).
The aspect ratio is a greater issue, since a smaller-than-stock overall diameter is presumably not desired. There is space for more width (than the 205 mm used by Escape), so a wider tire in 70-series will work. Another approach is to use a 16-inch wheel with commonly available sizes of the 205 to 225 width and likely 70 aspect ratio.