Tire tread for improved wear properties

A tread for a tire, the tread comprising a rubber composition that is based upon a cross-linkable rubber composition, the cross-linkable rubber composition comprising, per hundred parts by weight of rubber (phr):

• 100 phr of rubber selected from between 50 phr and 85 phr of a functionalized styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) and between 15 phr and 50 phr of a polybutadiene rubber, wherein the functionalized SBR includes a functional group attached as an active moiety and wherein the butadiene portion of the SBR has as trans-1,4 content of between 30 wt. % and 70 wt. %;
• a plasticizing system comprising a plasticizing resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of at least 25° C. and a plasticizing liquid, wherein the plasticizing system is added in an effective amount to provide the rubber composition with a glass transition temperature of between −25° C. and −15° C. and with a dynamic modulus G* at 60° C. of between 0.8 MPa and 1.3 MPa;
• between 60 phr and 125 phr of a silica filler;
• and
• a sulfur curing system.