Going Over the Road with Knight

Obviously, you havnt 'graduated' to the "Super-Trucker" Pre-trip!

I.e. * and must be done with 'fingerless gloves" on

1) log 15 mins on your log book/elogs
2) hit the road!!


Btw: used to be DOT reqd logging 30 mins for pre& post-trips in the days of 10 hr driving

 

Or they knew and simply did not care. I run into those alot.

 

I get that even from the shop itself.

 

Tire 'health' is the most important 'daily' parameter to chk!! Esp at the end of the day (post-trip) as have a chance to fix a bad tire b4 heading out early the next day and discovering then during the pre-trip and start your day out in the hole!.

The more experience I got the more I trusted 'tire thumping' with my 2 lb hand sledge hammer to make sure I was in the ball park..would walk around my rig with the sledge in 1 hand and a tire pressure gauge in the other....

 

I increased my knowledge about tires & tire pressure when running the US/Mex border daily in a daycab.

Brand new trlrs would cross over into Mex with new tires and come back with bald or 'missing' tires regularly. A favorite trick was not just to replace the new tires with bald ones but to 'leave off' the inside tire on an axle!

Also found thru experience as I p/u'd trailers in all kinds of conditions in crappy drop yards and not near a truck stop, that in dire circumstances, by re-airing a leaky tire and keeping above 22-24 psi on an MT (or lightly loaded---no heavy load on the tires) could limp in down the road to have fixed. That psi will 'generally' keep the bead seated to the rim. Only 1 time in 10 yrs of driving did I go down along the road (ran over some junk having no time to avoid and 'blew off' a steer tire 10-15 secs later!), but usually knowing your rigs limits and having some mechanical sense, could limp in to a shop...

 

Knight used to send out messages on the Quallcomm threatening charge backs and termination for dropping OOS junk trailers with blown tires and missing parts at customers.

I guess they realized that their #### actually does stink and they should be grateful that anybody wants to work them. That shut their mouths really quick. Sounds like the same ol Knight just a different day.

 

Remember that, guess they couldnt 'logically' enforce as a trlr with a slow leaking tire sitting for 2 weeks could go flat and the driver dropping off was unaware of the leak!

As also trlrs scavenged for parts (usually lights, cranks, etc.) in unprotected drop yards...