Is it me or is it time to ban recap tires from on-highway use?

Spread axle trailers are notorious for eating caps. 3 axle setups too. Or more.

 

We're running right at 80k when loaded and around 26k empty. But only about 10% empty miles when we're busy

 

New Jersey too. I’ve seen those tires they run on the containers. Looks like an oversized bicycle tire. Can fit 2 of them together to match one single tire you would find on the reefers. Probably rated for 55mph max when it was new 20 years ago.

 

Spread axle trailers will eat up a virgin tire just a easily .. I'am not sure thats a good comparison for a talking point

 

You do enough sharp turns even a regular tandem will chew up the tires if it’s loaded. It’s just easier to chew them up on spreads or tridems cause they swing and rub around more. Had a customer we frequented and the place was designed in a way you needed to have the trailer pivot hard to get in some spots after a few months of doing that I would notice huge chunks of the tire missing or the tire would pop from the sidewalls.

 

I ran caps on my drives for 6 or 7 years and never had one problem. Not one. That being said, most of the time they were my own casings, I checked the pressure weekly with a guage, and didn't run like a bat out of hell. The only reason I stopped was because caps got within striking distance of virgins. The place I took them to for capping xrayed the sidewall, and wouldn't cap if the sidewall was weak. Caps catch a lot of crap from people like you when you should be throwing your crap at the person with the steering wheel in his hand.

 

They are? Or are people who don’t keep an eye on pressure notorious for ruining tires? Pairing with a broad brush isn’t good when there’s plenty of evidence showing otherwise.

 

Believe it or not those are tube tires. Those guys run the absolute bare minimum.

 

Gators don't just come from recaps. Virgin rubber & recaps, when they fail can leave the gator in the road.

 

I agree with this ^^^^^. Theres a fair amount of steering wheel holders that can't read a road map or trip plan Hell they don't even have enough common sense to understand their GPS with out getting into trouble
Does anybody really think their are mentally capable of using a tire gauge let alone know how to inflate a tire to the correct air pressure ??
For those that are struggling to answer the above questions
The answer is ...NO THEIR NOT
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