Balanced tires...

Heres the deal. I work at a co-op and work in the car care center. Now on all car tires its a no brainer balance new ones everytime. Now on the otherhand on your typical trailer the wheels probably arent balanced, its kind of personal preference and type of trailer that permits weather or not to balance them. From what ive seen if you have bias ply trailer tires. Balance or no balance chances are they are going to wear uneven, radial trailer tires on the other hand usually wear a lot better than bias ply trailer tires. That being said if i install trailer tires i wont balance unless there are weights already on them or the customer specifically requests it. Let me explain. If someone comes in with a nice double axle horse trailer with aluminum wheels than you bet i would balance them. If you get someone come in with a old wore out double axle horse trailer with rusty steel wheels and all the marker lights are busted and it looks like its been abused and mistreated than chances are they could care less if their tires are balanced. It just depends. Now if someone doesnt request they be balanced then i base it on trailer. We have a lot of flat bed trailers come in with 235/85r16 and we put 10-16 ply trailer tires on, 99 percent of the time they will not get balanced, no sense in it, in a 16ply tire the tire and wheel probably weigh about 50-75 lbs combined, no use in balancing them unless requested by the customer. Same on a single axle yard trailer and double axle yard trailer. If its a decent trailer and if it is requested they will get balanced. But if its not mentioned they probably wont get balanced. Thats the way i look at it. But im honest too if you ask me to balance them than they will get balanced no doubt about. Even though we dont charge extra if we balance them or not. I guess it just depends on where you have your tires installed. But also consider its hard to get trailer tires to wear perfect, varrying load weights and various roads/turns and driving habits have just as much to do with affecting tire wear as balance does.