Violation

Call it in if its a co. truck and have them replaced, if you mark it on pti you are driving on bad tires that you marked as bad?

 

393.75 Tires (a) No motor vehicle shall be operated on any tire that (1) has body ply or belt material exposed through the tread or sidewall, (2) has any tread or sidewall separation....

This is listed in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations Pocketbook. Or the little green book. It took all of 2 minutes to find this and you new drivers should have this book in your back pocket. Then if you have conflict with your instructor you can show him or her. O

 

Any steel belt visible is a violation, that tire will get you a ticket if they see it.

It looks like you spun on some large gravel, not the only way to tear up a casing at the bottom of the lugs but the most common.

 

It'd be almost impossible to see with a trailer hooked up.
Put a little of this on it

 

Ya,It's Threads Showing,the rest of the Tar looks like like Deep Tread?

 

Welll ,you could pack some mud in it if you're trying to get over? But,yeah,Anything that's a Potential ticket or OOS gets my Attention.

 

Any steel in the tires is a DOT problem. And a ticket for you at mimimum, a potential point of failure for a Bomb for any poor people near it.

Toss em, put replacements on. Good replacements not recap.

I am going to go along with the drill idea. Sabotage is not too far out of my experiences. With that in mind, CHECK every single tire you got. All of them. Carefully.

 

The second pix, where you see the steel belt showing, the far left one has wire that is
shaved to a point? Right next to a cone shape bottomed hole?
So IF someone drilled a series of holes and hit the steel belt, and the drill tip hit
and dwelled; turning on the steel belt - it would look exactly like that.
Kinda sharpens the end. If it just broke - it would be square ends laying together.
X1 Heavy has the right idea. Look this rig over - real good.
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Yeah, Flex seal. That'll fix it! What a joke.
Altho; I had a leak where my airhorns were put in on cab roof, and I fixed it with that.

 

Rock penetration is a very common issue. I don't see a reason to blame anybody else to have those holes caused.
Look up different tire manufacturers what they state about their product in regards of rock damage/ejection.
Every type of tire is different. Some of them just eat and keep them, others spit them out at speed.
The first version on the Good Year 572LHD was a bad version, they sucked up everything. The Yokohama TY 517 was decent on this, they stayed fairly clean.
My last set, the Continental HD3 kept most of the rocks and my tires had similar damage like in the pictures.
I'm running recaps now and they have quite a V-shape between the lugs. I didn't have to remove a single rock yet, they just stay clean.

 

Agreed. Replace them and move on. Can't count the tires I barred off and on.
Just seems funny both holes look so similar in depth.
If you count possible drill hole they also are similar. You could do this in under a minute.
This fool could have had tire blow up in his face, (IF it is drilled.)

Every Goodyear I ever ran blew out in the sidewall.
They had a ring that flexed and got hot.