How many bad tire stories can you have in a week? Too many, is the best answer. It started a week ago Friday when I noticed the little tire(wheel) on my old hand truck was wobbling a bit. I mentioned it to my warehouse manager and he took out a hammer and hit it a few times and it was perfect. Perfect until I used it at the next stop and the tire completely fell off. I have no idea how this happened, but it was not good. Bringing boxes into an office is easy, but when your hand truck has one wheel-it's not easy at all and you get a lot attention. I delivered Friday afternoon mostly without a hand truck.
Monday morning I took a spare hand truck at the warehouse and started using it despite the fact that there wasn't a lot air in its tires. It made it a little tougher to push, but I got it done. Back at the warehouse, I switched to another hand truck which also had too little air in the tires. No worry, though, soon one of the tires had a hole in it and I used that a little bit. It got a lot of attention also.
Monday afternoon I went for my scheduled oil change. I asked them to check my two front tires since one of them was low on air last week. I was afraid there might be a slow leak in one of them, but no worries-both of them had nails. To make matters worse,they could not be repaired so I got two new tires.
Driving home, I realized that the low tire pressure light was on and it did not shut off as I returned home. They must have not set something up right when they put the tires on, but I wasn't worried. There's no way it could be a problem with the other two tires and I never even checked them.
The bad tire week ended with my warehouse manager putting a new tire on my hand truck and the air pressure light in my car being fixed. My car and my hand truck just keep on rolling along-this week has to be better at least for them.
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