Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

I've been driving 20 years and have never heard of steers lasting 250k.

But I am hard of hearing every now and then

 

Me neither.

 

I run Yokohama steers in all positions. Picked up 7\10 mpg, smooth and quiet and makes rotating simple. Drive a screw through a steer patch it put it to the back and rotate two drives to the steer. When they have been in the drive position for a few thousand miles and you move them to the steer they wear like steel. Solved all my irregular wear issues. They also outlast any drive tire I have ever used even though you start out with initially less tread depth.

 

I just bought firestone 951. Good price and my shop runs them on their fleet of trucks and average 160,000 on them. I had a set of BF Goodrich and put 150,000 on them but due to bring out of alignment I had to replace them because of really bad cupping on the outside of over tir.


I know plenty of people grossing over $4,000 and some that net over $4,000, but their certainly not pulling a dry van.

 

Doubt I will go 250, simply out of fear.

That said, recently rotated my steers @100k. 12/32 tread left, and absolutely no abnormal wear.

Can't remember the exact name, but they are the newest michelins. Directional tires that are now rolling backwards since being rotated.

 

CS and box planners made for a very annoying week.

Picked up a load in Laredo and headed for Arkansas. Load delivers about 15 miles or so from my house. I get an hour away from my delivery location and my appointment changes from the 3/1 to 3/6.

So, I relay to our dropyard in Lowell, and of course, no empties, nor did they even give me a pickup mt task.

Supposed to pick up next load on 3/2 at 1400. Never get an empty pickup location, even though I called multiple times. By 1500, I call again and they still have nothing. Load pickup gets pushed out to 3/3 at noon.

Next morning, still no empty location. At noon, I bobtail to the Walmart D.C.'s. Nothing. From there, down to our drop yard in Lowell. 4 empty trailers there, but still crickets from the box planners.

Grab an empty, head to shipper to pick up my loaded trailer. Bobtailing in is not an option at this place.

Load picked up over 24 hours late due to waiting two days on the box planners then ultimately driving around Northwest Arkansas on my own to find a trailer because they can't.

No idea why we are losing freight. No idea at all.....

 

Michelins were all I used when I was an o/o best tires out there but still didn't get 250k on the steers.

 

Since i started buying good tires and stopped letting idiots touch my trucks suspension i get 200k+ on steers. And that's doing local flatbed where im jumping curbs getting into job sites every day.

 

Do you have a bad ICA? Mine would have been all over this immediately..

 

Put new steers on a couple months ago. I use a local tire tire shop which I trust.

I put Bridgestone Ecopias on @ their recommendation. According to the shop manager, 220k to 250k mi is what the local fleets have been getting out of them. These are trucks that do a lot of docking and city driving as well as a few hundred miles of hwy every day, with drivers that don't care what they do to them.

They also said Michelin has been a problem tire lately, mainly with side wall failures. Yokahama is fine for a budget tire, 130k to 150k mi. Goodyear tends to start cupping around 60k, but rotating every 10k helps.

I didn't ask about any others as I tend to stick with major brands and had already narrowed it down to one of those four.