air hose

But wait, I have a good rubber air hose too, I'm 45 miles from the terminal, AND I can't get the bead to seat.
If only I had some starter fluid.
I threw my old can out, it started to leak,

 

we haul the same trailer each night. we run day cabs as well. as such, i leave the air hose in the trunk of my car. also too, our trailers have the Hendrickson inflation system..

 

I have held that someone who is safe is the one who will not do something he or she is not comfortable doing. That being said, perhaps you should look for a job that does not involve maintaining equipment. First, running under inflated tires is a violation, and depending on the psi, could be oos. Second, running underinflated tires leads to tire failure, so running a low tire down the road to the closest shop shouldn't be an option. Third, a road service call will be north of $100.00, and could cost several hours. If I owned a company, and I had to pay that much, and possibly a load because my driver wouldn't do what virtually all drivers do, I wouldn't have this driver working for me anymore.

 

I always carried an air hose, tire inflator, and die grinder for doing antenna work when I was running coast to coast.

 

I was on top of a mountain the other day coming thru BC about 40 miles outside hope checked my psi had one drive tire holding 50p don't know when it lost 60 could have been several 100 miles ago I'm not sticking my face down there and adding air I took it easy drove it into Hope and a tire guy fixed it for $156 at the flying j.

 

Haven't heard anyone mention that ol trick in awhile

 

In the truck stops I see the ones with the red stiff hose a lot but there are others that have a softer hose. They usually have brighter colors like orange, green or yellow that will be better in the winter.

 

Why would you check if you're not going to do anything? You stuck your face down there to check, why wouldn't you stick your head down there to air up? If it blew on the road, would you have continued to th Flying J, or would you have had it fixed there?

 

I have one. I have a lot of tools and I am a salaried company driver. I am home nightly and don't want to be waiting around for road breakdown for minor repairs or have a ding on my license for small problems. It is even more critical for drivers that need miles to pay the bills!

If you have one piece rims I think the danger of separation is greatly reduced. If you are a scaredy cat then get the clamp on type air nozzle and you can be nowhere near the tire while it is filling.

You are way more likely to die driving than from a rim separation while inflating. Unless your company runs 32 year old rims...

Make sure you get a rubber hose not the plastic version.

I have the cheap plastic hose and it is warm when it leaves the truck (in winter) but after filling the tire it becomes very stiff and hard to roll up.

Mikeeee