telling me to drive on a bad steer

If the trailer has virgin tires on it (thats a BIG if) and the tread depth and tread is similar to your good steer tire, you could swap out the bad steer onto the trailer.

The tire guys at the shop in front of you can tell if that would work or not. That would probably be $100 instead of $500-$600 for a new steer. Small companies sometimes squawk about expenses.

 

i had a company play me like this once. i went and had a inspection done. i was over gross. end of that story.

 

The good thing about email is there is a record of what was said.

 

Not to mention chicken ####

 

My father did this once about 50 years ago. Had the Mississippi DOT at Vicksburg put the truck OOS. Today with CSA I don't recommend doing this anymore.

 

The way the OP posted it almost sounds like they have run out of money and are williing to toss you off the truck. Tho a call to safety might be in order. Driver Managers have no clue about safety mandates. I would go with what @LoboSolo suggested. Tho I would put that bac tire on the outside and the furthest rear. As when it goes, you want it to do as little damage as possible to the rest of the tires. Maybe even get the tire mounted on the right side. That way the debris will go where hopefully other cars are not.

 

It's still a chicken #### move, if you can't speak for yourself why do you expect somebody else to?

 

That definitely will have to be replaced but you still have time on it. That also looks like you have more issues going on than tire wear.

 

Well since its Fathers Day why not tell that story. My dad was driving an almost new truck, if my memory is right it was a cream-colored WHITE. His employer took that truck away from him! To this day I don't know why. Then told dad to get in an old POS the list of things NOT wrong with it would be shorter. They argued about this for a while and my dad remembered those scales in Mississippi. Some of the old-timers on these boards might remember how snarky the Mississippi DOT was back then. Dad decided to quit. But before he did he took out his act of vengeance. My mother and I left home headed for Vicksburg about an hour after dad left. Mississippi did take that POS OOS and also had it towed to another location after we picked dad up. The owner was furious, but about a year saw dad at the old Goldmine Truckstop in Carnesville Ga and they made peace. According to my dad, that guy sent another tractor out there and they took the load on out to Arizona. To the best of my knowledge that old truck never was operated on the roads again. Once they got it back it was used as a yard dog until the engine finally blew up!

I agree it's a bit Micky Mouse to do this.