Drivers...Check Your Tire Pressure!!!!!

Somebody posts something about prime and poof there you are defending prime with your primed answers they taught you. Try thinking on your own for a change and not what prime told you is normal for trucking. Oh; I forgot you don't know anything, but what they told you...

 

Yeah, right. This is a thread about tire pressure Mr. Supertrucker.

 

Make sure you change the summer air to winter air, and do not forget to check your blinker fluid.

 

Try and remember that then.... If the post is going in your favor all is good. If you haven't been taught the prime answer yet, call foul and say something like stay on topic...

 

I have noticed more gators [ tire re-caps,carscasses, pieces,etc.] per mile on over -passes,bridges, curves, etc. than I do on straight highway. Got to thinking about it, and remembered of the last half dozen blow-outs I have had, most were on an over-pass.
Anybody else seen this ?

 

I check my tire pressure every day. I use the thump test because I know what a 100 psi tire should sound like. I also use my tire gauge to double check the ones I'm not sure of. Different tire brands make different sounds . Granted, the money I spend on fuel does not come out of my pocket. However, the money I save the company could go INTO my pocket as a fuel bonus. I'm getting 8.1 mpg. I'm new to trucking, but the techniques I'm learning will carry over to MY truck as an O/O. If I can go from 6.5 to 8.5 mpg, that's 2 extra miles per gallon of fuel. With two-hundred gallon tanks...well, that's an extra 400 miles that I can get out of the full tanks. It adds up. One other thing that I've found out, don't buy a cheap air gauge at a flea market. They are not accurate. I had 10 extra pounds of pressure in the tires than what was needed. I could have blown them out.

 

Blowouts are caused by the heat built up from underinflation, road debris, etc. Your tires are designed to handle increased pressure - 10 lbs overinflation isn't going to cause a blowout.

 

wait a minute.............your sayin were suppose to put air in the tires, I don't get paid fer dat, come to think of it i don't get paid fer much at all