Blown tire: how far do you think I can drive?

Haha, and how would you go about doing that? Post your opinion on a forum? I know I would be shaking in my boots if I was your employee.

 

the only reason why he would do it is to save u some money and time why would u fire him for that that seems like a win win for you my company they would fire u in a heartbeat if u told them u werent gonna move with a flat and u demand a service call especially if there is a tire shop right down the road that can single out ur llift axle. and people wonder why companies treat drivers like crap no one has any initiative anymore

let me guess ur one of those "drivers" that want a service call for a burnt out marker light as well right?

 

Oh I swear some of these guys would call for service for a wiper blade. I watched an O/O replace his front differential in a gravel parking lot by himself across the street from a steel mill. Only service call he made was to his wife (200 miles away) to bring him the replacement parts. He would have driven it but it wouldn't move with 80,000 on the deck. These guys would have called for wreckers without ever getting out of the drivers seat.

 

Mr Faulk,your logic is wrong as to the weight on the remaining tire.(i will use your figures so it will be easier to see)
It should be calculated like this:
42000lbs divided by 3 axles=14000lbs per axle.
As an axle puts half off it's total weight on each side,it means 14000lbs divided by 2=7000lbs on that remaining tire.
So,yes it is overloaded.
By 1400lbs.


As to your point that is summer and normal that the tires run hotter:
You must have missed the OP's post (post #5) very early in this thread.

Please read the red bit.
These are the words off the OP,not mine.


ps pls don't say i would call roadservice for changing a wiperblade.
You don't know what i have done in my drivingcareer.

Respectfully
Daf105paccar

 

The OP also come back and said...

It's hotter than the rest, warmer is a better word, because of increased friction. Missing one tire is not going to put other tires in jeopardy. Damage is done the moment a tire blows/dis-ingrates. At that moment it might take the tire beside it out, but not later. Max weight is figured with the max speed rating. Which in most cases is 75 mph. Slow down and the tire's weight rating will increase. New tires are pretty tough. You deal with second hand stuff you don't know what you are getting or how many times it has been curbed.

Look at a truck climbing a hill. All that weight shifts. The tires have to be capable of handling that no matter what is stamped on a tire. By my load pressure gauge I would guessdamate as much as 10,000 lbs can shift on a good hill.



See how nice daf posts. One can get their point across with out kicking up sand with name calling and insinuations.

 

Load range H tire now used as a single (since the one beside it is gone) 7,160# load rating........still not over. I love to argue!

 

I understand you own your truck and trailer. I own my truck as well.

The last "company truck" I drove made it clear as to the limits of what they would allow the driver to do.

They also had rules as far as tires and etc.

The way the CSA and the dot are anymore, not worth the headaches.

You can deal with them. I have just got to the point it is not worth the hassle.

 

He's nice cause he lets you run like hell. You've got a lot to learn out here kid.

 

Mr Faulk,you do admit that my way off calculating the weight on the single tire is accurate?

As to which tires he had on that trailer,he never really stated that.

My main reason for posting and replying in this (beside the fun) is that young driver will read this thread and think........nothing to it,a tire blown.......peddle to the metal and go.
See,those old hands say you are stupid if you call road service (and if i call roadservices,i lose money because i'm paid by the mile).

I wonder what the advocates off running as far as the OP did would say if they saw the same truck stuck on the first lane with both tires blown and no way to move without ripping the asphalt to shreads.

I stand by my point that at the speed the OP was driving(60mph) and the distance travelled (140miles),it was dumb luck that he made it.
There was nothing smart or calculated in this.

I have not been an angel in my trucking career.
Maybe one day i will feel the need to tell it(doubt it as i'm not the greatest writer),for now i will say that running with around 100 000lbs on 6 axles is lightweight to what i did.
So i do know a fair bit about tires used to their maximum.

What i would like to happen when a newbie driver (or wanabee) reads this thread,he thinks 2 or 3 times before he just guns it.

Because getting newbies to think before they f*** up in a major way is what most off us want.

The most accurate statement made on this forum is that ,sadly,drivers are doing more dumb stuff.


ps if you want to see the influence off running loaded,i would advise an in cab tirepressure monitoringsystem.
You will be amased how much pressures change with heat.
And yes,i have one.