I'm really done with this company driver stuff. Right now I'm under a heavy load and this is on the rear axle of my tractor. I'm expected to drive about 2000 miles with the tire like this. Of course, it's my ##### if I get caught by DOT for this. When I was doing the pre trip and found this I was 20 feet away from a garage that could have changed it, but rather than allowing me to get it changed, the company wants to save 30 or 40 dollars on labor and wants me to deliver my load and head to the terminal to get it changed.
I've wanted to be an owner op for a while and this just pushed me to the edge. Anyone out there own a truck and might be willing to allow me to drive for them and make payments out of my earnings to buy the truck? I know it's probably an odd request but I just can't get financing on my own. I work my ##### off and would definitely be able to earn enough to make payments, pay for fuel, etc.
I'm really tired of this, Ready to go on my own
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Tez, Jul 23, 2011.
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how did that happen ??
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I'm not really sure. It wasn't like that on my morning pre-trip. I drove 1 hour on the PA turnpike to my destination, sat at the receiver for 3 hours, and then drove to my pickup where I noticed it. The only guess I can make is that maybe the heat while I was parked or there was something on the turnpike that I hit. I never saw anything in the road and never heard it hit the trailer when it came off.
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If those are cords showing, you tell them you need a road call service truck and you don't move the truck!
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it happens from time to time it is probably a recap and didnt get a good seal in that one spot or he could have ran something over in the road whos to say !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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daddy&mama2go i know thats right been their and done that my self never again no thank you live and learned once their thats enough for 100 people lmao!!!!!!!!!!!
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There are cords showing and you can't see it in the picture but there is a split that goes pretty deep into the tire. I figure it's gonna blow the first good bump that I hit.
As far as my driving record, I have a suspension for failure to respond on my record. -
Guess what...if you own your own you will probably drive on it rather than spend the ### to replace that tire on the road... your outlook on stuff like this changes 180 degrees when it's your $$$, you have a truck payment to make and you are spending $1500.00 per week of you own money on fuel.
BTW... anyone who makes a deal on financing like you want is a fool IMHO of course. Nothing personal but that is NOT "going out on your own"....BigJohn54, jbatmick, Mr. PlumCrazy and 1 other person Thank this. -
Let the DOT work for you.
swing in, talk to them, tell them that the company wants you to drive on a bad tire and that you want their opinion, if you have electronic communications, show the dot where they said to drive it, and he will shut you down and they will have to fix the tire.
although hopefully its a good dot and they don't ding you for driving on it.Jarhed1964 Thanks this.
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