{"id":26613,"date":"2024-09-10T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26613"},"modified":"2024-09-10T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:06:20","slug":"eposode-1101-tire-counting-big-rigs-have-22-24-even-26-or-more-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26613","title":{"rendered":"EPOSODE 1,101: TIRE COUNTING: BIG RIGS HAVE 22, 24, EVEN 26 OR MORE TIRES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I AM a tire counter.  How utterly boring!  Right, maybe, but consider
the cost of those tires.  Perhaps $500 per tire which amounts to $11,000
for a 22 wheeler.  No wonder these huge machines dominate the roads.
They pay their way

Here is a picture of a 22 wheeler hauling fluid of some kind.  Fliuds slosh
around.   The weight on the tires must vary making the truck dangerous.
Yet I have never seen a huge rig upset.  Rollovers are usually 18 wheelers.
Why is that?

Dad was a truck tire builder.  Big Strong men were needed to construct
truck tires.   He qualified and was proud of his work.  The day
he reTIREd  Eric and I visited the Dunlop factory in Whitby
and actually saw dad building a truck tire.   Impressive.  He slapped
great lengths of heavy rubber on a spinning wheel. Vulcanized I imagine whatever that means.
Real pure rubber tires were reserved for aircraft because real rubber
can take the stress of a B52 trying to land on a Norad  airstrip in
Minot, North Dakota. Loaded with atomic bombs.  Or the stress
of an airbus loaded with people like us.<\/div>\n

alan

P.s.  This is the second version of the tire counting habit. The first
version was longer but I hit the wrong button on my computer..
Perhaps a story about rubber will come next.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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