Hot asphalt coming off tires after emptying a load. Legal???

If your mud flaps are on and legal, then it becomes road hazard.

 

Eh... well, I never went up top of the reefer to shovel 3 feet of snow. A bridge took care of that.

See where Im going with this? I do care about debris and what not from going off road and into situations where the truck will pick up stuff that has to be cleaned off. I once wallowed a 87 COE into a mud hole and rammed the rig out of it causing a huge mess all the way up the drivers door. The wind dried it out before I got back to the yard. Safety saw that and was amazed. How in the world? (Don't ask...)

Another time a rig in front was shedding rocks this big bouncing along 78 near frystown in the valley narrows and I had to manuver it very hard to get away from it's path that would come through the glass and into my face. It took out the steel door on my drivers side with a loud boom. Safety again.. what in hell? I am more worried about where that rock went because there was three lanes worth of people trying to hoof it for harrisburg in the rush. We will never know.

But one very bad day, I'll share it here. It has to do with the amount of rivets spent in holding together a 9800 Transtar conventional for B&B of Little Rock. A very old tractor with very poor riding qualities. It finally shook the rivets, hundreds of which spilled onto the I-30 approximately hotsprings and west in Arkansas. Then while I am thinking about all those poor people trying to see about flats or about fixing to have flats right quick, my cab floor fell one foot onto the twin frame rails leaving me and my head approximately where the steering wheel is and my feet pushing out into the 75 mph wind and pavement rushing by below almost against the engine.

Nothing in school or experience trains for that sort of problem. It was death waiting to take me and whoever else got in the way if I did not do something correct in the next few moments to save my life that bad day. I allowed her to drift and lug down each gear without touching the throttle which was essentially flopping around anyhow. Split axle shifted down as she lugged off to the shoulder to a stop without touching the brakes.

That caused a new problem a few weeks after the cab was repaired the axles of both drives locked in and refused to release clutch creating a wheelie of about 10 feet. After that little ride she started dumping all of the oils from both axles all over the service road to 30 near Little Rock. The People were aware that my rig was very sick and we had now a hazmat problem that required a response from fire and heavy tow. Totally screwed up traffic.

To this day from that bad day, I refuse absolutely to man any equiptment in which there are problems and flaws not fixed to factory spec. I don't care if you fire me or strand me or whatever. It was not going to happen.

Debris? Sure. Let me get into this lot or field and we will do some figure 8's to shake everything off, maybe rub a wall or two to get it. No problem. If you saw my tractor trailer trying to fornicate with a light pole and concrete base... that might be why.

 

The entire Internet is speechless after that last post.

 

LMAO

 

In my sleeper like . Is this....there's no....is there....am I old enough to even.....I'm going back to sleep.

 

Is there any way to scrape that off before starting down the road?

I mean, come on man, plastic scraper, pavement scrubber. There is something that YOU can do, to make your tires safe for the road.

How are you going to see that there is a problem with your tires if they are covered in Asphalt anyway?

You could also probably call your friendly neighborhood DOT man and explain tell them all about the problem. I'm pretty sure they will have a solution.

 

That post brought tears to my eyes ha! Makes me second guess myself getting into trucking

 

My brother-in-law ran in the mud in the oil patch. When about to get back on the highway he would use a trenching shovel to clean out the mud between the duals.
They were paving near Saskatoon recently. They gave the dumps about a half mile acceleration lane for most of the asphalt to blow off before they got up to speed.