Bad Tire? What bad tire?

[blackw900]

I was getting a couple of new steer tires put on last week and this guy was outside trying to put air in a tire on his trailer.
He was out there a long time cussing the thing, so I wandered over to see what the problem was....

This is what he was trying to put air in.....

The tire guy came out and we were just standing there staring at the guy in disbelief.
The guy didn't want to replace it and asked if they would patch it....
He finally let them put a used tire on it and after they dismounted this tire I just had to take a photo and share it here.

Just amazing.

 

[Injun]

I just gotta ask...What company was that?

 

[2xR]

Nice, even, treadwear... he got the goody outta' it.

 

[blackw900]

I just gotta ask...What company was that?

Some guy with his laundry wrapped around his head....From Fresno, CA.

 

[blackw900]

Nice, even, treadwear... he got the goody outta' it.

He squeezed every mile available out of that one....

 

[Injun]

He squeezed every mile available out of that one....

He could'a got a few more if youd'a given him a tube of JnB Weld and a can of Fix-a-Flat. Selfish p****.

 

[Tazz]

And people wonder why I say the DOT is not doing their job. Walk through a TA any morning.

 

[blackw900]

He could'a got a few more if youd'a given him a tube of JnB Weld and a can of Fix-a-Flat. Selfish p****.

I didn't have time to dig out the JB Weld.....


I was too busy oiling my brake drums so my brakes would stop squeakin'.

 

[blackw900]

And people wonder why I say the DOT is not doing their job. Walk through a TA any morning.

Sad thing is....This guys tractor was a POS, held together with tarp straps and duct tape.
I see guys like this running all over the place and yet...The only trucks I see "around back" of the scale house are nicer, newer and obviously better maintained.

It makes a guy wonder sometimes.

 

[ScooterDude]

Looks like standard issue for most can haulers.

 

[Tazz]

Agreed. Working Manchester they would say "pull every third and hazmat". Watch a truck roll through with the volvo wobble on the steers and sparks coming from the trailer tires.....but he was #2 so bypass he goes

I asked the guy why the heck he didn't pull him in and his response was "Can't spend to much time picking and choosing so we do every xx truck. Random roadsides will clean those guys up.'

The CVSA guy just shook his head and made some notes. Kelvin said they brought it up in the conference call held the week after. No idea if anything will change.

 

[Southern Fried]

I notice a lot of construction floats (assumedly local) going across with no working lights, etc just about everywhere I go. Often they're carrying machinery that is just barely secured. Must P the heavy hauler off real bad.

 

[butter]

This is an accident waiting to happen. Even i ii am not that cheap. Did you call CHP or Dot?

 

[Duck]

This is an accident waiting to happen. Even i ii am not that cheap. Did you call CHP or Dot?

Why would he do that? The tire was replaced.

 

[Blood]

Rookies.


10 bucks worth of slime and I coulda went a couple more weeks on that tire.

 

[butter]

i didn't read clearly. Would you call in a case like this?

 

[Duck]

i didn't read clearly. Would you call in a case like this?

Probably not, ... unless it was on a bus's steer axle or something.

 

[Mike]

Why not just regroove it?

 

[Southern Fried]

Somebody probably told him it was better grip in the icy mountains.

 

[Sinister]

I asked the guy why the heck he didn't pull him in and his response was "Can't spend to much time picking and choosing so we do every xx truck. Random roadsides will clean those guys up.'
.

One of our part time escorts was 17 years Air Force (and R.I.F.'d out under Clinton with her full 20), then got a full pension from the DOT as a driving test administrator.

She also thinks the government works just fine.