[05TundraDC]

another thing, when you say a tire is has a "Traction rating", what exactly does this rating mean? Does that number correspond to only dry traction, or wet and dry traction?

Because if the former, then the number would be deceiving if you are only going based on it. If you are looking for a tire with superior wet traction but the traction rating only references dry traction, then you would be not making the right choices.

That's partly the reason I was thinking the all season category in general, because regardless of the traction numerical rating I would think that in general they should be made for "wet traction" more than say a highway tire that has high dry traction but is unable to perform well in the wet.

If on the other hand that number you are talking about does refer to wet traction, then that is what I need to be looking at.