What bugs me is I spent all morning checking the truck to make sure all is good. Checked all four tires and there were no signs of any sort of damage or anything that would show one was bad.
Perhaps there was a piece of debris on the road that caused it?
I get all brands have lemons and this can happen with any tire but when literally most everyone complains about reliability then you know the manufacturer is just going with the cheapest option possible.
What gets me is that the '01 Dakota that I owned before my RAM came with Goodyear SRA tires from the factory and I ran the same tire on it for the entire 16 years I owned it. They were good tires on that truck. They got good traction, wet, dry, snow, you name it. My only complaint was that the mileage didn't hold up to the 50,000 mile rating. I went through 4 sets in those years (it would have only been three if I hadn't broken a spring shackle on a 500 mile trip and caused the tires to wear oddly). The last set only had 10,000 miles on them when I sold it. My wife's Jeep Liberty is running them as well, no issues there either. Yet on our RAMs the same tires seem like junk, no wet traction, even poorer lifespan, reliability issues. I get it it that the RAM is a heavier vehicle, but the Dakota took a 15" tire, the Jeep a 16", my RAM a 20". I would expect the larger tire to have more material and be equally capable but I guess the design that was good at 15"/16" just doesn't scale up well.
-K
