6 tires and counting

I made a 2.5 day 1400 mile round trip from home starting this past Monday morning. Clean pretrip. No problems. I generally check my tires about every two days, and certainly before i leave the house at the first of any week/trip. Trailer has auto inflation, tractor checked manually by gauge, not by thump.

Run was smooth. I probably pulled to the shoulder twice on entrance ramps to grab a snack or take a leak, nothing unusual. Where this run is there are a couple of very long stretches with no good places to stop or rest areas so you do what you gotta do. Did my 10's in in a rest area and next one in a truck stop, no parking on shoulder.

Anyway, Wednesday morning I wake up 2 hours from delivery (near home, it's a round trip). Did a quick walk around in the dark and when I got rolling I had my trailer inflation light on. Stopped and looked at everything, couldn't find or hear a thing. Rolled on carefully since I was relatively close to home.

One hour later stopped for fuel and realized I had a drive completely flat and off the bead. Made no noise. Light load. Really pissed me off that I missed it and I'm not sure how long. I was on a tight schedule and I called about 3 places trying to get in for tire service and everybody was swamped. Since I was close to home and light I decided to limp on in carefully, drop my load and then get the tire fixed.

Problem is the delivery was past my favorite tire guys and close to my house so I decided to just head home and deal with it later since I had some stuff to get to at home. I park my truck at home and come back this afternoon (24 hours later) and ALL FIVE right tires are completely flat. Every one. All right drives and my right front steer. There is no way someone did this. As in, it wasn't vandalism or anything. It's secure where I park and I already knew i had one drive flat. Also, I know I've likely got at least one trailer tire flat because the light was on during my last leg home like I said above.

I pulled all tractor tires this evening and am taking them in tomorrow. WTF? I have never seen this. I can't see anything in them but I was humping to get them dismounted at dusk. Hoping for the best tomorrow. I'm afraid to go check my trailer where I park it. I hope I don't find 4 more f'n flat tires on the right side.

 

I saw a couple of small things that I marked with chalk but no big nails or anything. I'm wondering if maybe I hit some cable? I didn't hit anything on the road though, that I know of.

 

I do but I haven't had any trouble with those in a long time. And it really wouldn't explain 6 complete flats all at once.