When you're building a heavy-duty pickup for towing, hauling, or a lifted street presence, one decision keeps coming up: Super Single or dually. Both put more rubber on the road than a standard single rear wheel. The difference is how.
What Each Setup Actually Is
A dually (dual rear wheel) runs two narrower wheels and tires side by side on each end of the rear axle — four tires across the back. It's the factory standard on one-ton pickup trucks rated for maximum payload and trailer weight.
A Super Single replaces those two narrow wheels with one wide wheel and one wide tire per side. Instead of four rear tires, you run two. The result is a cleaner look, less rotating mass, and fewer sidewalls to flex under load.
Weight: The Real Advantage of Super Single
Every wheel and tire is unsprung weight — mass your suspension has to control on every bump. A Super Single setup drops a full set of wheels, tires, and hardware off each axle. Less unsprung weight means faster suspension response, shorter braking distances, and less wear on bearings and axles.
There's also the rotating-mass effect: lighter wheels and tires accelerate and stop with less effort, which matters when you're towing uphill or running big tires on a lifted pickup.
Where Dually Still Wins
Dually isn't obsolete. It offers redundancy — if one rear tire fails, you still have the other side holding the load — and it spreads weight across a wider contact patch for maximum stability under a heavy trailer. If you're towing at or near your pickup's maximum rated capacity every day, a dually is hard to beat.
Why a Forged Monoblock Changes the Math
Traditionally, one knock against wide wheels is weight — a big cast Super Single can be heavy. That's where a forged monoblock changes the picture. Because our wheels are pressed from a solid 6061-T6 billet on a 12,000-ton forging press, the grain structure is dense and void-free, so we can machine the wheel thinner and lighter while keeping the load rating you need for a one-ton pickup truck.
Our Super Single forgings run from 20" up to 30" in diameter and up to 16J wide, built to order with the offset and bolt pattern your rig calls for.
How to Choose
- Daily towing at max capacity → dually, for redundancy and maximum stability.
- Lifted street or off-road build, moderate towing → Super Single, for the weight savings and the look.
- Mixed use → talk through your actual loads; the right call depends on your numbers, not a trend.