Been an annoying last few days.

4 days ago, decided to get a Tirepass at Loves since I had a couple drive tires a few pounds below 100 lbs cold. Instead of inflating the tires, the machine deflated all 8 of my tractor drive tires to between 70 and 90 lbs. The shop there refused to put me at the front of the line for service so they could re-inflate my tires with the high pressure shop line. I spent an hour with my personal trailer air line adapter filling all my tractor tires to 90+lbs.

The next day, I stopped again, at a different Loves, and the next morning it took them a tire tech to do a tirepass. At least their equipment worked.

Yesterday, I picked up a trailer in need of several small maintenance issues, and rolled into the Nashville TA. They said it would take them 45 minutes to get started on repairs. I settled down to wait. Two hours later, I finally find out that they only have a single mechanic, and they are on another job, with one more job in front of me. I told them to cancel my work order, and drove the remaining 300 miles to the Marietta Terminal.

This morning, the terminal techs made short work of the repairs needed, and I started on my PTI, so I could make delivery.

Got a message to stay put. Another driver broke down 1 mile from their final. Can you go rescue that load?

Sure. I went to rescue the load. While hooking up I discover that the trailer has a LRI trailer tire missing half its tread. It still holds pressure, but is leaking air badly. The auto inflator is the only thing keeping it from losing bead.

I hobble to final, make delivery, and am now waiting for a road call technician from a nearby TA to fix this tire. I don't dare put it on a major road at any sort of speed.

Hopefully this stretch of interesting days will end soon.

 

At least two tires can be entirely missing and the auto inflation system will not drain the tanks. It doesn't allow enough air volume to pass. I know this because some turd at a truck stop stole the auto inflator lines from two of my tires in a truck stop about a year ago, and I was able to run fine even though the line that fed both missing lines was open and losing air rapidly.

 

I think what he was saying is that you might want to use the off duty time you have right now to start a 10 hour break then push that drop and hook to tonight then drive straight to deliver your second load.

You didn't give quite enough details for us to know if that's possible though.