Doing a remodel on a flip house, my recently retired brother is doing all the work. I am busy with full time shift work, but I am happy to help with the heavy loads. Brother arrives at my house with lowboy trailer behind his Z-71. Everythings look fine. We head to Houston 30 miles away. Buy half pallet of flooring and 55 sheets of drywall. Heavy but not an extreme load. We notice RR trailer tire air is quite low, but still rolls OK for the moment. I suggest heading to nearest convenience store to use air machine. He says no, DT has free air and will check all the tires for free. I tell him I have not had good experiences with DT, but he is driving so OK he chooses.
Drive 2-3 miles to nearest DT. Sure enough there is a "free air check" line set up with about 6 vehicles waiting. I say lets skip this, it might take a while. He says, no we are here already, and it will go fast. I disagree but let him decide. It goes SLOW. The tech checking everyones tires talks to each customer, probably suggesting them to buy replacements. A car or two leaves the line and parks and goes inside store. Finally we get to the air pump after 20+ min. Tech checks and tops off 3 of the 4 trailer tires with a few PSI. He goes to the low tire and attempts to fill it several times. He checks his air machine, adjusts it some, then tries some more. Calls manager. Manager explains the air machine "does not detect enough PSI" in the tire to allow filling it". What???
Manager suggests we (get this!) "Go to a C-store, air up tire, return to DT, get back in line and re-check the tire and new PSI, since the air machine can now (supposedly) top off to correct pressure". What???
Drive 2-3 miles to nearest DT. Sure enough there is a "free air check" line set up with about 6 vehicles waiting. I say lets skip this, it might take a while. He says, no we are here already, and it will go fast. I disagree but let him decide. It goes SLOW. The tech checking everyones tires talks to each customer, probably suggesting them to buy replacements. A car or two leaves the line and parks and goes inside store. Finally we get to the air pump after 20+ min. Tech checks and tops off 3 of the 4 trailer tires with a few PSI. He goes to the low tire and attempts to fill it several times. He checks his air machine, adjusts it some, then tries some more. Calls manager. Manager explains the air machine "does not detect enough PSI" in the tire to allow filling it". What???
Manager suggests we (get this!) "Go to a C-store, air up tire, return to DT, get back in line and re-check the tire and new PSI, since the air machine can now (supposedly) top off to correct pressure". What???