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To: jazusamo

A trailer sent into Mexico with new tires often returns with bald tires a week later;their roads must be terrible!(From conversations with drivers of several large national trucking companies.)


27 posted on 05/16/2011 10:51:59 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: hoosierham

Thanks. Years ago I believe our companies would reload our product on Mexican trucks at the border, we must be sending the trailers in now, the bigger companies may have done it then too.


29 posted on 05/16/2011 10:58:04 AM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: hoosierham

I don’t know if you were being sarcastic or not. They come back with bald tires because they get swapped out at some point in their trip down south. Eight trailer tires will run in the vicinity of $2,000. I have sent trailers over the border before and can tell you any and all equipment that goes over with the trailer does not come back. Drivers have to strip out their trailers at a local agent before sending them over. They always come back with something wrong. It could be dents, smashed lights, graffiti, or the infamous tire switch.


33 posted on 05/16/2011 11:28:53 AM PDT by Graneros ("Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.")
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