Tear in red line hose

It's a violation, even if you fix it with duct tape. You can repair the leak with duct tape and "limp to a repair, but you will be driving with a violation.

Clean, with alcohol, the hose area on both sides of the tear. Start taping about an inch or two before the tear, and wrap duct tape tightly around the hose with ZERO creases or pinches in the tape. The duct tape, if it is applied absolutely smoothly will temporarily stop or reduce the amount of air leaking from the torn area. This is assuming the tear isn't close to a fitting.

 

Look again. He posted today. November 8th was the date he joined TTR.

 

The next you're at your shop get some airline splices from your mechanic. They come in a lot of different sizes, are a legal repair, and are easy to install.

 

If it’s broken at the glad hand, it can easily be fixed, with .25 cent brass ferrule. Take old glad hand off. Cut a clean end on airline. Put glad hand back on using a new ferrule. Tools needed are a couple crescent wrenches and a razor knife. Ferules can be bought at any parts place, or any hardware store

 

Never thought of that, I mean, fix the flex line, thanks.

Had it once broken in -20f on u turn, but I was at TA, so went in and bought the thing.

 

It's too bad that the truck driving schools aren't teaching stuff like this. A driver doesn't have to be a mechanical genius but knowing how to change a marker lite or a headlite, knowing how to repair an air hose, being able splice a broken electrical wire back together and a few other simple tasks would save a fortune on road calls and repair bills.
We had a driver (not one of ours) picking up a flatbed trailer in our yard. The marker lights kept blowing their circuit breaker. The driver wasn't allowed by his company to do any repairs himself. He had a road call mechanic come out. The mechanic found a bare spot on a wire that was rubbing on the frame. His service call, including night charges, came to almost five hundred dollars.
Our mechanic would have looked at it and fixed it, probably for free since it was only a five minute job but we weren't on the "approved mechanical repair vendor " list for that company so we weren't allowed to touch it.

 

I got the impression that a LOT of trucking companies don't trust their drivers to do anything except drive.

 

Good point. Looking at the kind of drivers we see so much of I cant blame the companies. Some of the drivers I've seen would have trouble figuring out a thumbtack.

 

Not sure if the original question was serious or not.