Winter Tires?

Lifelong Alaskan here who drives half the year on snow / ice, and in my experience (along with the vast majority of truck owners up here) running quality AT tires year round is safe and works well.

No, an AT tire will not perform as well as a dedicated winter tire. But modern snow / 3peak rated AT tire design, modern traction control / braking systems, and using 4x4 when needed is very effective.

I am running Cooper AT3 XLT’s.

 

What are you missing? Lol. Lol...
Rubber compounds for winter tires are so soft that the surface rubber to 2/3 the way down have to be reinforced with 1/3 hard rubber like you have pictured with your rock climbers. Hey, in Chicago or some other "southern" city, it wont matter. They have salt. But when you live in the north where we get 20 plus feet of white stuff, it makes all the difference in the world. Hint: winter tires stick to ice, how would you expect your antigash rock climbers do that? Also, you're missing studs, do you have holes drilled in them to mount your studs?

 

Used Blizzaks for years in Alaska -- great tires for highway driving on snow and ice -- just remember to take them off in the spring time, they wear fast on dry roadways.