do any of you owner operators use run flat inserts on your steer tires?

No.

Steer explodes. That leaves the rim minus the fender, hood and a few other unimportant things for the moment.

Grab wheel if you are not already on it with both hands hold it just enough to hold the whole tractor trailer straight. Come off your power, stay off it. Don't touch a #### thing let her drift to a halt on the side of the shoulder.

And that's that. New steer tire time plus a assessment of other necessary damages to be repaired.

 

Seems like a good idea for anyone hauling scrap metal. Those metal scrap yards are messy as hell.

 

I did that when scrap was hot and heavy......tires took a beating.....brand new tire installed early morning just to have a sidewall puncture at 3 that afternoon.....happened on a regular basis

 

Get yer popcorn!
This is how the Guberment does it! With a foam filled tire. Seems like a very practical thing to me, NOT!!!
But watch this anyways:

 

Oh yeah. I jumped into scrap metal after I bought my truck. It kept me local but ####... I averaged two tires down every month.

If it rained for any length of time, the scrap yards couldn't clean up as good so driving through puddles meant risking getting metal in tire(s).

It was six months to get me off the ground. I hope I never have to hook to another high side though.

 

Yeah that's about right. Regardless of how much I looked... especially if it had been raining.....I always got something in my freakin tires.....it was endless but I ran my rear end off...... 2am to Darlington by 6...unload...then to little Washington....load...then to Ahoskie...unload...and back to little Washington for a load to take home and back to Darlington.
What a relief to have one going to Smithfield in the AM instead of SC

 

I was leased to a contractor running omnisource in Kville NC. I started when metal prices were high. The line to the shredder was out of the front gate, so many trucks deep it would take 3-4 hours to get it off. That's 3-4 hours of your truck sucking in nasty stinky dust.

The company I leased on to was poorly run/ mismanaged. It was not uncommon to wait 2 hours for a van trailer to be free'd up and hooked to only to get a call to drop the van and grab a flatbed for an "emergency load!!!"

There are no emergency loads in scrap metal. Lol.

There is a lot of money in it if you approach Omnisource with your own authority. A lot of money when the scrap prices are up.,

 

I dont remember the extended loading times being that terribly bad. There was, if I remember correctly, a omnisource in Clayton i unloaded at for the high end stuff....copper, aluminium, etc...that was tighter than a tick to get around in. Nucor in Darlington was a pain.