Landfills and tire damage

A plug kit, and ‘Fix A Flat’ will be your friend.

 

As someone with a enddump that goes into places like that a lot i can say the trick is getting the right tires. High ply count, thick sidewall offroad and hybrid tires are typically a lot more resistant to damages. For example on my ram i use these Discount Tire | Tires and Wheels for Sale | Online & In-Person and ive taken my fully loaded (as in max gvwr) 1 ton over stuff that you would think should shred my tires. I also have a set of bridgestone 864s on my steers and rear trailer axle (dump truck). They are designed to go into scrap and waste so they hold up amazeingly well

Its all about the tires and getting severe duty tires. Standard tires get shredded. Further a plug and patch kit can really help out.

 

It’s the cost of doing business......factor that in when looking at something from the outside and thinking these guys are getting rich I’ll cut the rate and clean up.

 

Right there.

When I’m dragging a 14 wide parachute down the road, I’m not complaining about 4 mpg or paying pilot cars, it was all factored into the rate.

 

The only time i’ve ever seen a scrap hauling truck of any kind with new first line high dollar premium tires is when it was new in the dealer parking lot. They Run cheap, used or retreads. Gonna destroy them anyways might as well spend less doing it. Most guys I know in the business have a few tire repairs a week as a given. Even a couple buddies who are hauling the rebar out of the finished side of the plant have it rough because they still have to go to construction sites full of debris. One close friend who just doesn’t want anything but new eats a set of first lines once every 3 months. Seems like 10 tires every oil change is the inside joke on that one. Lol

 

Buy cheap tires, patch 'em until they're junk and then toss them for another cheap tire.

No sense buying quality tires when they'll be junk before they're worn out.

 

I had one customer once who asked me about removing some garbage and I won't go to our landfills I won't do it, not in my pick up truck. In a full size commercial CDL rig it's one thing, but not in my own truck and a lot of our landfills around here are limited they really only want commercial garbage haulers you know the big time garbage trucks and city run operations, they don't want us little guys there. However, I did call up a local transfer station and they said I could dump a pick up truck load there, but it was going to be expensive and exactly what you were going through I thought, uhhh I don't want to go there and get a flat tire, that wouldn't be cool.