What do you actually check on a pre-trip inspection?

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  1. Sons Hero

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  3. REO6205

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    The IGNORE button is great but there's a downside to it. We used to have a driver on here that told so many tall tales, irritated so many people, and passed out so much bad information that eventually almost everyone had him on IGNORE.
    Since only people who didn't know any better would answer his posts he was soon reduced to basically talking to himself.
    He, in effect, banned himself. Hardly anyone noticed.
     
  4. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Asking for a “fiend”? o_O

    We frown on fiends around here, mister. :biggrin_25523:
     
  5. Sons Hero

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    In an effort to avoid everything rated R, he eliminated the R.
     
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  6. Old_n_gray

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    Too many beers on no sleep. :oops:
     
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  7. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    I have a tire losing air on my regular wagon, but it’s such a slow leak you can’t hear it. I probably won’t be able to find it until the next time it rains.
     
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  8. Sons Hero

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    I had a tire like that on 1 of our trailers, been fighting it for 2 years, but it would only leak low enough to need air about once a month. Had it off twice trying to fix it, but couldn’t find anything in it. Younger brother just told me yesterday he took it off again, and found a tiny screw in it. He said the head was pulled in with the rubber closed over top, and such a tiny bit of it was through it barely scratched the back of his hand when he was checking the tire. Hopefully he got it!
     
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  9. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    You sure seem to make the simplest things complicated. If you take the rubber plug out you can stick your finger in and if you pull the finger out it will have oil on it. Because the hubs are an oil bath hubs. They look like the pic below.
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    Are you really having a hard time with this or are you just trolling like most here think?
     
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  10. expedite_it

    expedite_it Road Train Member

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    I'm really having a hard time with this. Is the red thing the plug?
     
  11. expedite_it

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    How is that a downside? It sounds like an upside to me.
     
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