That's something I've never seen before

I've done that. Years ago, pulling a dump trailer, tire let go on the wagon, there was a spare on the trailer, a jack, and a lug wrench in the cab, so I got off on an exit, and changed the tire. (worked up quite a sweat, if I remember). When I got in, the boss couldn't believe it, and I had to show him the flat tire in the rack. He said he never had a driver change a tire on the road before.:smt102

 

Used to happen quite often way back when. What was scary was those old split locking rings since many driver's did not know how to deal with them.

 

Are you sure he's not stealing them?

It's not even an emergency....he's just rotating LOL. Closest I've come to doing that is banging out a steel rim with my sledge and re-seating the bead with ether and airing it up. That was a nasty ding I put in that rim if I recall.

Stupid sharp curb at the Alexandria Bay toll booth got me.

 

I re-set beads with ether all the time. I've been meaning to get a nice torque wrench and some spoons to save me that $35 for swapping on a spare. I've already had a jack and blocks in the truck for ages. Swapped on some new shocks in the Petro parking lot when I got too bored with twiddling my thumbs on memorial day, and got some weird looks, especially when I offered a passerby a cold beer.

 

it's getting that rare? My uncle showed me his truck jacks once, big fat short things. He was driving one of those flat front cabovers in the 70's. I do everything I can possibly do myself. Don't think much of those lazy guys who won't lift a finger to do any real work, just sit and turn the power steering wheel and get fat. Used to take a strong arm to to turn that wheel before power steering was invented.

 

Hi PWD, well, it is pretty hard to get the lugnuts off a Budd wheel, they use a 1" drive impact to put them on. Maybe on the steer, where you can get at them. I've driven trucks with manual steering, and it's intense and I don't want to get the ladies all riled up, but if it wasn't for power steering, there would probably be no women truck drivers. ( or let's say, I'd be a little nervous around a gal that could steer a truck without power steering)

 

I pump my own Diesel. Anyone impressed?

 

Are there not a few things wrong with that picture?

 

About a month ago I was sitting in borden town waiting to get a trailer tire replaced and a man can in asking about getting a headlight changed on a cascadia they told him it would be an 8 hour wait to which he replied well I has to be fixed so I guess I'll tell dispatch I'll be late . now on these cascadias it takes longer to open the hood than it does to change the bulb so I assumed he was looking for an excuse to be late and didn't offer to change it for him lol