Who’s in and who’s out?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Midwest Trucker, Jul 21, 2025.

What’s your status?

  1. Had my authority and I still do.

    27 vote(s)
    35.5%
  2. Had my authority and no longer do.

    3 vote(s)
    3.9%
  3. Leased on and still do.

    12 vote(s)
    15.8%
  4. Leased on and no longer do.

    2 vote(s)
    2.6%
  5. Had my authority and now lease on.

    1 vote(s)
    1.3%
  6. Was leased on but now have my own authority.

    2 vote(s)
    2.6%
  7. Had authority or leased on but now company drive.

    5 vote(s)
    6.6%
  8. I’m a company driver and wish to remain so.

    17 vote(s)
    22.4%
  9. I’m a company driver but hope to own my own truck.

    2 vote(s)
    2.6%
  10. None of the above but I’ll explain.

    5 vote(s)
    6.6%
  1. Siinman

    Siinman Road Train Member

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    Bridgestone has been 2 sets and one set of Firestone before this set. So average about 130K on each set so far. I was running all with 100-115 PSI. I am gonna run these at 120 PSI and see if it works better. The last set of Bridgestones had plenty of tread on them but had delaminated on the edges on both tires. I thought I hit something on the passenger side and made that happen but a days later the driver side did the something. They no longer make that version of tire so gonna guess I had the last run or they started to have issues with them and stopped production.

    The ones I got put on yesterday is Firestone FS509's and was a little les then $450. If I remember right I got about the same out of them as I did the Bridgestones. They are about $200 cheaper than the Bridgestones, the place I got the tires did not have the newer Bridgestones I was gonna try out so I just went with these. Might be the last set I put on here before I sale the truck so not to big of a deal. I would also like to try out the newest Michelin X Line's that just came out this year.
     
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  3. Siinman

    Siinman Road Train Member

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    My last Volvo I had no luck at all with Michelin tires. So on this truck I have never ran any of them, maybe they are better now but I had terrible luck with them.
     
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  4. Siinman

    Siinman Road Train Member

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    Have you tried the newest Michelin X Line tires. I think they are XLINE ENERGY T2. If I decide to keep this or buy new next time I want to spec those out. They look pretty nice and love the drive tires as well that match.
     
  5. abyliks

    abyliks Road Train Member

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    I still only run xze on the steers, but I do like these Toyos on the drives,
     
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