how many of you do it every morning ?

It would be a good idea to buy a 32nds gauge and routinely check your tire tread depth and brake pad thickness.

 

For a big box carrier driver who routinely goes to company terminals and has that checked for them, perhaps not so much. But, otherwise, yeah, it would be a good idea. Do you even know what the minimum requirements are for tread depth and brake pad thickness? If you pick up a trailer at a customer, will you know if you'll need to get it to a tire shop so you won't be put OOS?

 

Everyone on TTR does thorough pre/post trip inspections. this is how I know that there are never any TTR folks at the truck stops I go to.

 

Don't know if you were serious with your last line or not, but you pretty much nailed the steering wheel holder mentality right on the head with that one.

 

Well, if you have 25/32nds on a tire, you're not going to suddenly lose it (unless you have a cap failure). It's not something you'd need to check every day. Now, we did have one driver who managed to wear a set down... he swore up and down it was axle alignment... his two tires on the right side of his #2 axle...
He claimed axle alignment, I figured he got into some ice or a soft spot and spun the hell out of them, so we didn't send it out for a three axle alignment, although we let him get the impression that we did. Oddly enough, he was all giddy about a month later, because he didn't have a problem with his tires wearing down.
Yeah.