Tires on a trailer

With all due respect, did you read my comment and comprehend my point before you started in on me and making snide remarks? I did not give the OP a hard time. I was venting on how drivers are being trained and in way too many situations their lack of training. Look, I welcome any and all criticisms of my comments, I just ask that before you take off on a tangent at least look at my words first!

 

And besides some of do know it all, just ask we'll tell ya, and if you disagree your wrong end of subject..

 

Remember the OP was referring to a trailer, not a tractor. The trailer's generally (at least once in the past) ran recaps and their tires were most of the time in a different rack. I would be willing to bet this shop did not have the proper tires and used what they had. I can't tell you how many times I have seen trailers with tractor drives and steers on them. Heck, a few years before I retired I had to have roadside service to change a tire and they brought out the wrong tire. I called my company and they said to tell that mechanic to go back and get the right tire.

 

I get that and thats fine if they are replacing 2 at a time. But if these guys had all 8 off. Just as easy and takes the same amount of time to match the sets across the axle instead of “shot gunning” them on.

 

But you want the nice rims facing the outside!

 

A whole lot of woulda shuda coulda mixed with no telling what will result in this. Without actually being present there is no telling why they pulled a stupid. It's also possible they were only putting those tires on as a temp measure until the trailer can get in for service and then have the right tires placed on it. A lot of carriers have shops dedicated to trailers and refers.

 

Or at the very least the same color. Lol

 

I'm still a bit irritated and want to add some things to my post #11. Do you think a DOT officer will give a driver a break just because they did not know? I doubt it! In fact, DOT officers write tickets and OOS orders almost every day and play on a driver's ignorance of the North American Out of Service criteria. Drivers all across the country are having thousands of dollars each and every day taken from them because of this kind of ignorance. The carriers don't give a tinkers dang either. You can call me a know it all supertrucker all you want. Just know this, it breaks my heart to see a driver, especially a green driver, bust his rear only to see his or her company do them this way. I can't to this day get my head around why this OOS criteria is not taught during the training period. It's shameful if you ask me.

Moose now gets off his soapbox!

 

I totally agree. I've held my Class 1 for 8 years now. All driving school taught me was how to recite the pre-trip and refine my shifting to pass the test. Don't get me wrong I learned a lot of stuff in school but the "experience" I got having an O/O father put me head and shoulders above a lot of the rabble out there these days. Hell I could throw a set of triples on and do basic roadside repairs before I was even 16. I had a better understanding of the HoS and logbooks than the guy teaching the logbook course FFS.

 

There is a lot of “set you up for failure” culture in this industry. I don’t have an answer where that attitude and mindset originated. It’s sad. It seems like no one in these big companies that have the power to change that care to do so.