Truck Driving Jobs

ActionEarthMover26 · #11 10-03-2007, 10:25 AM

found a sickle section off of a swather in the steer tire :shock:

Radaremtjcw · #12 10-08-2007, 04:17 AM

i found a 5/8" box wrench in a trailer tire , still got it

Uturn2001 · #13 10-08-2007, 04:25 AM

Wierdest thing I ever seen come out of a trailer tire was concrete.

Was working for Swift at the time and was picking up a trailer from the Laredo yard and the policy was all trailers that came back from Mexico had to be inspected by the shop before pulling out with them.

I went into the shop to arrange for the inspection and they were pulling some really nasty tires off a trailer. The shop manager asked me if I wanted to see something really wierd and showed me the concrete on the inside of several tires.

Don't ask me how they got it in there, and if I had not seen it I would never have believed it.

Mr. Ford95 · #14 10-08-2007, 09:31 AM

Musta been some new balancing compound Uturn.

Windwalker · #15 01-23-2008, 03:51 AM

Two trucks from my company were parked at a rest area in MN. No, we weren't going to the same place, but we were parked there for the night. In the morning, I left before he did. Did my walk around and didn't see anything unusual, and left. Got down to MO, and got pulled around back. LEVEL 3...

Check the lights, horns... Then he goes around to thump my tires. Gets to the right steer and I see his shoulders bouncing. Before I know it, this stern DOT is laughing like a fool. Finally, he waves me over.

On the sidewall of my steer tire are a bunch of "SPIKES" sticking out. Looking down a little closer, THEY'RE PORCUPINE QUILLS. And, he was not the only one that had never seen a tire with them stuck in. I tried to pull one out, and my fingers slipped off. And, as hard as he was laughing, the level 3 was over too.

When I got back to the yard, quills still sticking out, the other driver saw them.

"So, you're the one that ran down that porcupine. One of the other guys tried to pick it up by the tail and throw it away, and got his hand all stuck full just like your tire. We had to have an ambulance come to the rest area and take him to the hospital to have them taken out."

The shop didn't change that tire either. I had quills sticking out of my tire for about 8 months.

But the one I'm still trying to figure out is one of the other guys... When the shop broke down one of his steers to replace it, they found a used comdom inside. As far as I know, to this day, no one has any idea how it got in there.

ICS · #16 02-03-2008, 01:52 AM

about 6 months ago I stopped for a bite and in the tire of this 4 wheeler was a set of keys. one of the keys punctured threw the tread and the rest where dangling from the tire. She must have just picked it up in the parking lot. I thought that was pretty amazing.

stormothecentury · #17 02-24-2008, 03:51 AM

I had a screw in a tire one time.

It was a little cramped, but she didn't seem to mind. :lol:

Seriously, though, my ex-girlfriend's mother was an absolutely terrible driver. My g/f and I were at her place when she got home one day, complaining of a weird sound in the front of her car. I went out to see if I there was anything obvious, and it turned out that she'd hit a cone in a construction zone, and somehow lodged it between her tire & fender wall. And then driven with it like that for a good 15-20 miles.

Fredog · #18 02-24-2008, 03:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by driver2

Just a couple of weeks ago when we parked to go home, hubby noticed a trailer tire flat....we go back to check and lo and behold, there was a deer bone imbedded through our tire, cut two belts.................needed to replace the pratically brand new tire :x :x :x

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how do you know it was a deer bone??

jonp · #19 06-21-2008, 10:40 AM

How about a Hammer? I ran over one in a parking lot and went down the road for a ways and noticed this weird thumping noise so pulled over to check it out. The hammer was stuck into the tread with the claws driven in. Tire didnt lose air, though. I must have struck it just right for that to happen. Tied a piece of rope to it and the frame and moved a few feet to pull it out and went to a garage to get it fixed, still didnt lose air but not taking a chance on it!

Mr. Ford95 · #20 06-21-2008, 01:49 PM

2 months ago found a little metal sliver in a drive tire. Wasn't leaking but was sure odd, looked like a minature shank. It was only about an inch and a half in length. The odd part was I seemed to pick it up after delivering to a site where they refurbish military vehicles. The running joke for the company was that it was shrapnel from Iraq. With it's shape and small size and where I was delivering, very possible it was a piece of shrapnel that feel off a tank or humvee that was brought in for refurbishing.