L and S Tire

Picked up a job working for a local tire disposal company, the hours are long, the works hard, and it's not the nicest equipment in the world. It's nice to be home and the pays pretty dang good for only having a year of driving experience. It took awhile to land a job like this but dealing with all the otr crap and not being home paid off.

 

We go out to local tire shops and pick up their old tires, then we take em back to our yard where the car tires get bailed and shipped in a container. Big rig tires get cut in half bundled and then shipped to who knows where. Anything bigger then that I have no idea what they do with em. Doing this job though made me realize people buy some ridiculously huge tires! Thanks for the congrats cdsinor

 

So far the job's started off rough, driving local is a whole different world from otr. So far I've had two incidents with clearance issues. The first one was an awning that I caught with the outer part of my trailer while turning into a tire shop. I thought I had it cleared because the truck wasn't under it and I didn't compensate for the trailer sticking out. The second one was trying to get out of a dealership parking lot and I found a big opening wide enough for the truck to fit through, but I forgot to check for any low wires and ended up catching them on the trailer. I cut a couple of the wires but didn't pull them all down. From all this I've learned that no matter what you should always walk your path and not assume anything. My boss sat me down and said one more strike and I'm out. Honestly if I was him I probably would've gave me the boot after the first one.