Experienced driver...but at new company damaged inside tire...how mad will they be???

When you say damaged is there a chunk out of it or is the side wall partially cut?

 

Sounds to me like you might have ran over something, I've had railroad tracks do that to a tire if you are driving parallel to the tracks and you rub against the tracks with the side of the tire.
How mad the company is going to be is a difficult question, unless theey're a bunch of prix I would think it would be considered stuff that happens sometimes. Do they require you to bring the damaged tire back to a company terminal? If not, i would just call in and say i have a flat drive tire and dont volunteer any more info than they ask.

 

big deal you hit something in the road it happens all the time.

 

Tell them to stuff the tire up there butt if they get pissy. Tell them the tread is seperating and that you need a tire. Get it replaced out on the road, not the terminal. Ask the tire guy not to spill the beans when they talk to your companys road service.

 

Yeah I have to agree it could of happened amywhere and these kind of things will and do happen. I seen a guy last week dropping a flatbed at a yard and ripped just about all the tread off his driver side drive because when he dropped his wagon it was loaded and he had 2 of the trailer ratchets all the way to the front. He destroyed the tire and ruined the ratchet.

 

I knew a guy who just drove on the highway until it finished blowing up so it looked like a popped tire on the highway.

 

I've never had a problem with getting a tire replaced. There's no telling how or when the tire got cut. Usually the company has an account set up with a national account and they'll just send you to the nearest outlet. They may want a picture, I know Roehl does. I've never had a problem with them trying to come back on me about the tire either.