Why are container trailer wheels and tires different?

WEAWY!

Not give a darn about that perm maine?

Thats really not caring are they? What do they want that for then? Scrap weight value?

 

I 26 running out of Charleston is covered with blown container dolly tires.

 

The chassis was rearended by a reefer. Twisted it up and knocked the conex off and onto the highway around 2:00 am. A end dump then broadsides the dark blue hiding in the dark conex and catches fire before it comes to a stop. No one injured. There were 3 trucks involved and everything was scrap. One truck and one trailer that had burnt to ground and the chassis were stored at my friends shop down the road from me. He scrapped what he couldn't use. I got the tandem part of chassis for $0 after it was all said and done. They came out of Houston and got the wheels and tires. The plate was torn but still readable so I guess they just maybe cancelled that number. Don’t know. I hung it up on my shop wall with the rest of ‘em i’ve gotten over the years.

 

Or get you in your nuts if your squatting in front of em.

 

Pure and simple and simple,
To slow down theft.

 

My new 1981 cabover came with tubless bias ply. Some guys were getting radials. Remember seeing them and they looked like they were low on air (kinda) compared to bias ply. The Goodyear drive tire ,think were called " custom cross rib" were a good tire, in the day. I tell ya even the radials chassis are using on the rail blow out. They cap ancient casings. Funny to think that younger drivers don't even recognize tube type. But hey, no big deal, can't know what you have never seen. More exciting when old tube type blow out..more rubber to fly. Innertube, inside flap whoo hoo.

 

I/we went through the same garbage being in gen X.

Just think of it as a hazing ritual.

 

Before I moved on from cans, the new chassis had the tire inflation system and tubeless tires. The O/0 also ran 10/20 a on their truck. And the drivers ran cans out of Chicago to the East Coast, west Coast, South East and Sdouth west, And took cans to Detroit to hand off too Canadian s that were going to Halfax to catch a ship

 

Because they are cheap, and the chassis pools that maintain these chassis are cheap, then they cry that they go over budget on tires. Also, look at who owns the chassis or the pool. If the chassis is a TRAC, its a TRAC leased chassis, 90% of them will have radial, as TRAC does their darndest to maintain them. Where as the regular chassis are a hodgepodge of junk, riding on junk tires that are underinflated. They are 90% recaps, recapped by the cheapest possible place around.