Quoll
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Sod's Law.
My boss (brother-in-law) had just put four new tyres on the rear duels of my work vehicle last Friday.
On it's first trip out on Sunday night I was about half way through my run when I realised I had a flat, annoying and not much fun at 2:am in the middle of winter. Fortunately I was passing through a small town so I was able to pull over under a street light.
Upon checking the damage I realised both tyres on the rear duel were flat, seeing as how the tyres were new I assumed the tyre fitters had botched the job and not seated the beads correctly.
One good thing about duel tyres is that in an emergency you can run on just one tyre.
Of course you have to be able to get the jack underneath first and when both tyres are flat it's not that easy.
After spending half an hour shifting my load as far forward and to the other side as was possible I managed to find a place to get the jack to fit (I did have to use part of my freight to lift it up high enough to do the job, but we wont mention that here).
So both tyres off and the spare on, I settled down in the cab for a little snooze before ringing the boss (he starts his run at about 3:30) to make sure he was happy with the way I had set up the load and tyre and to prepare him for the good news.
Naturally he wasn't all that happy and said he was going to rip into the tyre guys when they opened.
I continued on with my run, I was only about six kms from my next stop which would halve my weight so all was well.
When I got back into town to offload the last of my freight I had a good look at the tyres in the daylight, not what I was expecting to see.
Earlier in the night I had swerved to avoid some sort of road-kill, after looking at the tyres I learnt two things, I hadn't missed it completely and I knew what it was.
Two brand new tyres totally ruined, the spines snap off and can keep working their way in over many months, not a good night.
My boss (brother-in-law) had just put four new tyres on the rear duels of my work vehicle last Friday.
On it's first trip out on Sunday night I was about half way through my run when I realised I had a flat, annoying and not much fun at 2:am in the middle of winter. Fortunately I was passing through a small town so I was able to pull over under a street light.
Upon checking the damage I realised both tyres on the rear duel were flat, seeing as how the tyres were new I assumed the tyre fitters had botched the job and not seated the beads correctly.
One good thing about duel tyres is that in an emergency you can run on just one tyre.
Of course you have to be able to get the jack underneath first and when both tyres are flat it's not that easy.
After spending half an hour shifting my load as far forward and to the other side as was possible I managed to find a place to get the jack to fit (I did have to use part of my freight to lift it up high enough to do the job, but we wont mention that here).
So both tyres off and the spare on, I settled down in the cab for a little snooze before ringing the boss (he starts his run at about 3:30) to make sure he was happy with the way I had set up the load and tyre and to prepare him for the good news.
Naturally he wasn't all that happy and said he was going to rip into the tyre guys when they opened.
I continued on with my run, I was only about six kms from my next stop which would halve my weight so all was well.
When I got back into town to offload the last of my freight I had a good look at the tyres in the daylight, not what I was expecting to see.
Earlier in the night I had swerved to avoid some sort of road-kill, after looking at the tyres I learnt two things, I hadn't missed it completely and I knew what it was.
Two brand new tyres totally ruined, the spines snap off and can keep working their way in over many months, not a good night.
Ewwwww.
