JIMNLIN wrote:
Tireman9 wrote:
Did anyone learn anything from my efforts to file a complaint with NHTSA?
Your not the first person on this web and other trailering websites that has filed a tire complaint with NHTSA. One hauler on a east coast LTL website has 5 tire complaints over a 30 month period with NHTSA. He has 5 thank you letters to show for it.
However he was wise enough to listen to some of the older experienced haulers and made the necessary tire changes that ended his down time on the side of the road. Down time for those folks = lost revenue for their business.
NHTSA has know for years about the poor reliability of trailer tires. With a very small, to non, body count over many years, IMO NHTSA won't step on any tire industry toes and regulate a more reliabe tire in the niche tire industry which includes trailer tires in many cases.
I agree every trailer owner with a premature ruined tire should file a complaint. They also need to let NHTSA know how much dollars in damage the inferior tires caused them.
And the body count may have a lot to do with the response. In this day and age of shrinking budgets and TV news sensationalism, where do you think the NHTSA is going to concentrate their efforts? Where the body count is -- and until we ask Congress to increase their funding (out of our pockets), I think that priority should stand.
