Tear in red line hose

I've had people ask me that while waiting to load or unload. I always tell them no but they want to try it anyway. They watch too many Duct Tape commercials.
I have trouble with people who ask a question because they truly don't know the answer and then argue with the information I give them.
One guy did that, said duct tape would fix an airline 'cause his daddy told him so, and he wanted to borrow my roll of duct tape too. He had on a short sleeve short and he had really hairy arms. Hairy like gorilla hairy. I told him to pull off a foot of tape and wrap it real tight on his arm and not to take it off until he was ready to put it on the air line. He did.
I loaded next so I don't know how it turned out for him. Maybe he learned something. Probably not.

 

Very possible I guess.

I've had hydrovac operators swear up and down that duct tape would seal up a 3000 PSI hot water hose. Yeah, no. It doesn't.

 

Never, and I mean never ever tell a DOT who's going to do an inspection on your truck, "Ok, go ahead. But you won't find anything."
Speaking from experience.

 

Rescue Tape is sold at many truck stops... Properly applied, it will hold hundreds of PSI. It works as advertised, I've used it successfully.

STILL A TEMPORARY FIX, however.

 

We had DOT guys transfer to the Highway Patrol they must have gotten bored lol.

 

I said was I just said not to say to a female DOT in N. Platt.. She looked until she found a hair line split in one of my brake liners. I got out of that with just a little bit of money. But the replacement brakes that were installed, were junk. They chattered bad. Especially when backing up. So, since I had to get new shoes put on somewhere else.
Two brake jobs because I ran my mouth to a DOT.