Stepping Out With My Own Numbers

Yep i ain't knocking the guy. Just trying to make sure he understands what the real potential is. Just like a year ago our two, whenever it was, that he first got a truck and was leased to some Cartier paying him peanuts. I kept after him to seek better, and he did.


Fyi, produce broker that's a buddy of mine told me today that was having to pay 4k from Florida to Cleveland/pittsburgh/chicago. Reefer or vented van, either works. I asked him what Boston was costing him and his response "i don't want to talk about it"

Obviously not every truck is getting that, but that's what he is having to pay the guys that know how to work the market. Holiday weekend and those melons gotta go no matter what it costs.

 

Just like on the road, everybody is always in a #### hurry.

 

My only experience with caps was bad too. Never again.

 

If its down to the steel belts, that's the casing coming apart, not the cap. That's common with cheap recappers that don't properly test the casings. Look at the sidewall and find the date. Would be interesting to know just how old the casings are.

 

You do realize that even "virgin" tires are capped tires right? The process of how the tires are made for virgin is the same for recaps. It really comes down to the glue that is used and the type of tread put on.

Here are a couple videos for reference.

 

Right. I would bee getting them off to. I'm just trying to help you understand the issue is these cheapo recaps, and not all recaps.

 

In the last 7 years I have not run on recaps at all. All this time I have not had a single explosion, just usual flats caused by punctures. Prior to that when recaps were used by the company I had been with, the explosions were all too common, all the damage and hazard they caused plus my time wasted was horrible. Based and this experience, I'll never be convinced to using recaps again.