Is your dispatcher allowed to make a driver take a trailer to the shop knowing it has a flat tire?

Got a point here.

 

i've done that a time or two..many times, a tire shop is not that far from where i drop/hook up to another trailer, and it's cheaper than calling a road service.

it's a PITA, i'd have rather been on the road, but it did not happen all that often.

 

I got a flat on a trailer I drive to a shop. Not hard.

 

Pull your air line hose out of the tool box and put air in it…. Might behave to put the tire next to it up in something to get it to hang/reseat

 

EVERY THING isn't a legal question. I've pulled a trailer some distance with one low or flat tire, depending on the condition of the tire. For example, if the tread & sidewalls are intact I would drive it to a repair location. I would not pull a trailer with a tire that has some of the tread missing such that it is likely to throw more tread while moving. If moving the trailer I would be in a "limp along" mode not "go make some miles" mode. Meaning, I might be driving 45-55 mph with 4-ways on, right lane-only.

 

Here is a cautionary tale:

This is a real review posted on Continental Expresses’ Fort Worth terminal on google maps.

 

Touching a bumper has been a fireable offense at a few previous jobs I’ve had….

 

I dunno. I've seen some flats sit so long as to mold the flat shape permanently in that spot. If course this was at the farm, but still....

 

Air hose? Tool box? , sorry, nice to start the day with a chuckle. I don't mean to ridicule the post, but really, all the drivers have today is a cell phone. When I pulled rail cans, many of them had low tires. The schmoes would pull them anyway with 48,000, and there they were down the road with 2 flats. Many times, you'd pick those up at the crappiest of places, nowhere near an air hose. That got me to thinking, where can I find an air compressor at 3am in Chicagos back streets,,DUH, I'm sitting right behind one! I got 50ft of hose, a glad hand( for the red line,) and while I couldn't get 80lbs , at least 60 got me down the road. Then, a few years later, I see truckstops selling a kit with the exact same thing,,daang!

 

Well, move to the top then!

Geez loueez, do I have to do all the thinking around here?