Stepping Out With My Own Numbers

That logic says because lots of cr england thermo king units are constantly breaking down it musty mean all reefer units break down constantly. Unless you know exactly what their tire maintenance procedure was and what supplier they got caps from, then you really cant cone to any logical conclusions from some random company. This is what my experience had been, i can run continental recaps on my spread axle trailer grossing up to 92k lbs in the hot heat of the southeast summers and have absolutely no issues with them. But i take tire maintenance seriously and do more than just kick the tires once a week. Not saying you don't, but we all know the average company driver doesn't stick their tires every pre trip.

 

I think Love's is starting their own recap tires and a lifetime warranty, I believe the trailer tires were $220.

 

Agree with you 100% on recaps. If a person is staying up on maintaining their virgin tires and running proper/equal air pressures all the time, avoiding curbing tires like the plague no matter what, then those casings will make excellent retreads. The same maintenence routines must be followed with the retreads. And you will never blow a tire. The problem with tires is most drivers neglect and abuse them.

I had at one time never had a blow out in 6 years of running my equipment. 3-1/2 years ago I had a set of 8 drive tires, that I had owned since new, recapped. They did awesome I got another 150,000 out of those tires. However, I got lax on air pressures last spring.

By summer's end last year 2 had popped and a 3rd was about to from a bulge in the sidewall but I caught that and swapped a spare on it before it did. I actually caught bulges in the sidewall of the 2 that popped the day each blew out. These blowouts were 100% my fault. That last 6 months of those tires I let the air pressures go and was running lots of heavy 75mph and 75mph + speeds. Those tires popped from my abuse.

But I did get my money's worth out of them 500,000 miles on that set of tires. Caps are a great money saver. It's crazy to make blanket statements about them. Mine cost .01 cent a mile over their usable life from virgin to recap. That cost would have been less had I not spent $700 on 2 used tires out there on the road. A cent a mile tire cost is good. Anything under that is great. I could have been under it but from my own laziness I wasn't. Those caps failing were 100% my fault from abuse plain and simple.

 

The only reason i stopped running them is i just don't run very many miles so they get older than I'm comfortable with. Last month i bought 4 new drive tires. The 4 i replaced were made in 09. I just wasnt comfy capping an 8 year old tire.

 

Congratulations @Misesian looking forward to more adventures with you.

 

Good luck to you. Wish I could help, but I only hauled reefer for a little bit as a company driver.