SmartWay Express Inc. Review California

How long have you been driving man? Who is attacking you? I certainly wasn't attacking you, and it certainly isn't my nature to attack people even when attacked. If you truly read some of these threads, you might have seen that I've taken an internet beating on some of these threads, because I have unpopular opinions a lot of times. It don't mean anything. Doesn't change how I feel on things. FYI, I do drive and I'm about to enter my 15th year. My experience, education, and your picture suggests to me, that the tire is ok. It ain't the prettiest tire I've seen, but if I grab a trailer with that meat, I would run it. Now I ain't one to attack you, but you're right, there are other guys that will absolutely maul you because of how whiny you're coming off. You need to understand that folks are gonna have differing opinions. Doesn't make them an unsafe driver or one that "exposes families to deadly accidents." A trailer tire certainly won't do that lol. Anyway driver, hopefully you find a company that suits your needs and helps you prosper. I wish you well.

 

Good grief.

 

Yes I've driven constantly. I've maybe been out of a truck for a total of 11 months in that time. One due to illness(5 months) the other 6 due to other issues that isn't important to this thread. Point being, we've both been out here long enough to understand that tires blow. There's any number of reasons why they blow. Retreads lose the retreaded part. Some tires have been ran too long. Some are defective. Some had too low air pressure. That's something that never gets talked about. How many drivers wear down tires because they don't check the air pressure regularly? It's the nature of the beast. Sometimes I've ran a less than gorgeous tire down the road to get it replaced. Tire damage is not totally unavoidable. Tires will blow and pieces will be on the road. What's to be done? It's the nature of the beast.

 

Do I smell grease or oil…
It must be something in the water

 

To be fair the tread on that tire did look a little too low,plus it looked like it had a little bit of feathering going on.
I’ve had a few tires where previous drivers didn’t report them to Road Service like they were required to (the old “pass the buck”routine) and the trailer ends up being OOS for tire replacement(s) ,which could screw up a delivery appointment! The most recent case I had the driver drove over 150 miles with a BLOWOUT and dropped off the trailer at a company terminal. I was supposed to deliver the load the next day in New Jersey on my way home. Not surprisingly I had the trailer put in the shop-head of the shop took photos of the tire and sent them to our company headquarters and my fleet manager (who is based at company headquarters as well) asked me to take photos of it and send them to him too. The driver who dropped off the trailer in that condition had a lot to answer for! The load came out of Atlanta (Sweetwater beer load) so he had TWO PLACES en route he should’ve stopped at to get the tires replaced.

 

There was a reason that tire was replaced on someone else's trailer. If you're going to the trouble, and labor of replacing a tire, why would you put someone else's reject tire on another trailer? I agree, that tire shown has a bit of life left in it. But it doesn't make sense to replace a bad tire with another one.