Tire Question
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Yeah, a lousy picture. But it looks like you see the recap band. It looks the same all the way around, right? Shouldn't be a problem.
Yeah, a lousy picture. But it looks like you see the recap band. It looks the same all the way around, right? Shouldn't be a problem.
Yep the cracks are all the way around. I just wanted to make sure. I'm a little bit paranoid about these things...
It's that first week thing!
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It's just the seam where the new cap meets the old casing. Small cracks like that are nothing to worry about. The rubber there is very thin and most all of them do that.
Besides the obvious noticeable cap, some of them are hard to tell when new you can look near the DOT number on the sidewall. There will be a new number branded into the casing that starts with an "R". For every one of those that you see is equal to the number of times the casing has been capped. Normally you will only see one but I have seen up to 4 recap brands on one casing.
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
The tire core cannot be more than 5 years old. If the sidewall looks cracked check the DOT number on the tire, the last 2 digits are the year of manufacture. The 2 digits before that are the week, in the photo this is the 51st week of 07 (2007)
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
The tire core cannot be more than 5 years old. If the sidewall looks cracked check the DOT number on the tire, the last 2 digits are the year of manufacture. The 2 digits before that are the week, in the photo this is the 51st week of 07 (2007)
That's just one of those truck stop rumors. Now tire shops are refusing to cap tires more than 5 years old because they don't want to take on the liability of an older tire casing.
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
It's that first week thing!
You kicked Level Boss butt in school. You defeated the Level Boss on road training, now you're up against the Final Boss! Every loaded trailer will get you additional life power. You'll make it!
THats just epic good sir!
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Ok I have a question about one of my tires. This is on the passenger inner tandem.
I don't know how well it will show up but there are cracks in the rubber underneath the tread (about an inch down). I'm going to assuming that these are recaps. Could this be a potential problem? Could this blow out on me?
Any help is welcome!!
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".