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Its almost always the casing that blows, not the cap itself. The big companies that regularly use recaps like estes and ups have their own casings capped and have a strict maintenance plan implemented. Things like tire inflation systems so the casing never suffers sidewall damage from being ran flat.

For us 1 truck operations we could get just as good of results by having our own casings capped instead of taking what is on the shelf. However that means buying another set of tires or waiting 2 weeks to get your tires back.

 

As Spyder said recaps are not the problem, maintenance of them is. Look at statistics and you will find given proper maintenance recaps have a lower failure rate than virgin tires. Think about this, almost all the tires on commercial aircraft are retreads, and they had an exemplary safety record. Also not many people are aware plenty of motorcycle road race tires are also run on recaps. Arrange a visit to a tire plant, and then a quality retread plant, and you will see there is no reason to not use quality, properly made retread tires.

Be honest, how many people still think "tire thumping" is an accurate way to gauge air pressure? Bet you had your recaps blow. I know more than one person at Mercer who got put out of service for ALL tires below 80 psi .... his reasoning was "I don't have time for that BS checking air pressure, gotta get down the road and make money". So he sat at the scale and had 18 new tires brought out. Same guy later bought a second trailer and it came with recaps. I took it upon my self to check pressure and they were around 60psi. He didn't care, then proceeded to blow three of them within the first 100 loaded miles. Now he is like the rest of those #####ing about how recaps suck, ignoring the fact it is the maintenance that is the problem.

 

Sounds like he's the moron...a lazy one too...only takes a few minutes to check tire pressure...he's probably the same one who says if you dont run 75mph you wont make any money either..smh

 

Speaking of tires, I just replaced my Michelin Energy D drives. 4 of them still had 8ish/32nds, but the other 4 were starting to do the high mileage chunking. Got 350k miles out of them. Petro gave $50/ tire casing credit. Our price was $510/tire.

 

That's impressive... Did you go with the same tire again?

 

well now..Been with Mercer for exactly 1 month now..Had 3 trips and now sitting at home for 12 days Because the agents keep yanking my preloads away from me..Am I missing something?

 

What do you mean Yanking? Is it guys lower on the board getting the loads you've selected or loads you've been actually dispatched on getting cancelled? Flat or Van?

 

Apparently,These are all broker loads(I'm van). It appears that everything I select is being undercut really bad.

 

of course I'm in Massachusetts too.

 

I've had the same experience on the flat side as I've posted previously. Any bid load that I try and get is almost a 99% guarantee that I wont get it because its underbid by another company. Lots of fuel money haulers out here right now circling the drain...