What if it Snows?

Well a customer of mine has told me to go screw. I was charging him the minimum for mowing. He didnt like the thought of paying $40 per mowing and that $160 was now due. So he told me to take a flying.....................

I asked as a tree management company, he doesnt have a minimum that he charges to do a job? The cost to deliver is the same for an hour or 30 mins or 50 mins? It doesnt matter how long you are. You still require a fee to do the job. Ok, it took me 20 mins to do his job now. He feels he is being charged $120 per hour. Told him that would be nice if true. Oh well, one less customer. Nice of him to message me 2:30 am.

 

My tractor has Continental’s on it. 160k and they look amazingly good. I’ll measure them later.

They are in my learner opinion a summer tire. I kept watching other drivers in snow covered drop yards with drives that looked like winter tires just drive in and hook up. I had to throw chains to get in and out.

 

There was a forum member that went to the darkside whom ran SS with michelens. He saw 140k out of his, they were racing slicks when he changed them last. Then again that was I saw of him. Pmracing I believe it was.

 

They squeeze fuel. Truck 2 has General deep lugs on it, and I'll bet he could go almost anywhere with no chains. They are bad ###. He still gets high 8's.

 

I am getting to old for this crap — had 2 interviews yesterday — the first one was with a 25 year old punk ### b#### that got in a couple lies before I walked out. 2nd one was pretty cool — less than 10 minutes talking then went and pre-tripped and road test. Amazing the difference between folks that know what they are talking about and those that don’t.

 

Thats kinda My opinion too... But between the truck and trailer, going with supper singles reduces our lite-weight by 1600 pounds. And a vast majority of our loads are all potatoes... Most of which pay by the hundred-weight, and we load them up to 79,500 + on a regular basis.

I guess the powers that be think the increased revenue is greater than the repair costs when weighed across the entire fleet.

 

There are a bunch of trade offs with Wide Base drives.

If one goes flat, Limping to the next exit is not advised because you may mess up the rim.

Not all tire places keep them in stock. in 2013 I got a flat on the previous truck and the road call service manager went out and verified there was one in the back of a truck doing deliveries cause they were out of stock and the next closest one was an 2 hour round trip. He also did not have any rims in stock.....

The wide base tires were swapped onto that truck by the "dealer". They had a 2 inch offset to the outside. The 2 inch offset are known for destroying axle housings at the outer bearing because that little bit of extra load is enough to cause bearing failure. Had to get the axle end cut off and replaced by an "axle surgeon" because of the failure. Be vary careful of any retrofits.

Tire pressure should be adjust for load weight or you get strange wear patterns.

The good: Saves weight, May get better MPG

 

Truth here about wide singles. You have to get the right axle ends for them. The offset is what will make that decision. Alcoa claims to have retrofit wheels. All the wide singles I have had were factory install.

 

Our tractors all have zero offset rims factory installed. I've not had a problem with wierd or unproportional wear. We run ours at 115 psi in the summer and 120 in the winter.

We are finally switching the trailers to zero offset rims as well, with the 2" offset we were getting bad wear on the inner portion of the tires. So far we are seeing better results with the zero offset on the trailers.

 

Air pressure is one thing wide singles need to have set correct. Probably the most common problem is odd wear due to air pressure.