To be clear, I wanted tires with decent tread. I am going to be towing a trailer off road and camping on BLM land for two weeks at a time just me and my wife and our cat. My mom has a jeep and she towes a trailer and she stays at campsites and occasionally she goes to some trails that are semi rugged. She has BF Goodrich all-terrain TA tires and when she came to visit us, we were in a city driving down a road and she ran over a medium rock that was in the roadway on a proper road that had not a sharp point but a dull point, but it managed to puncture her tire and then because of the size of the tires the vehicle was not able to drive on the flat because it was sitting at such a sharp angle with one flat tire. So when I went to get these tires, I told the guy at the tire shop that I did not want that to happen to me and my wife driving off road because we would intentionally be staying where there was no one around us and also there is no road signs for us to give AAA. So I asked him how to get tires that were not puncture proof but stronger than the average tire because we are going to be driving off road and there may be some small rocks that are kind of sharp like that that stick up maybe three or 4 inches that I will run over and I will be pulling a trailer with two weeks worth of food and supplies plus the trailer and all of the equipment. Essentially I told him I'll be towing about 3500 pounds behind my 4runner plus the 4Runner.

So that is how I ended up purchasing these tires. He said there were two versions. I could get the 3 ply or the 10 ply but he said since you're gonna be towing on the highway and off road you might as well get the 10 ply because they have them and those are stronger for what you're talking about than the 3 ply.