(For those of you who've been checking the blog lately--I've had some trouble finding time at home to update. These brief notes were written more or less on the dates given, but it took me a while to get them typed in. I'll try to do better...

Picked up a trailer in the dark this morning. Thought I'd checked it over pretty well. When I stopped to fuel, I looked it over again, and found one tire had a bald spot the size of my hand, worn down clear past the first steel belt. All the tread gone. A blowout waiting to happen.

I mentioned once that you can back one of these rigs in a complete circle without moving the back wheels. What I didn't mention is that doing that is a good way to grind the tread off those back wheels, if you're not careful. I presume that's what happened here.

We're legally required to inspect the truck and trailer at least once a day (the company requires us to do it twice). This is one of the reasons...