TAME THAT ALLIGATOR!
You CAN be an Alligator Tamer. It’s easy!

Every day motorists are endangered by countless road alligators on highways everywhere. These road alligators are mean, ugly and dangerous!

Yet, road alligators can easily be tamed just by paying better attention to a few basic rules.

Rule one: Check your air pressure on a regular basis using a properly calibrated tire gauge. Do NOT thump your tires to determine if they need air. If you think you can really determine whether your tires need air by thumping them, you might as well thump the hood of your truck at the same time to determine if you need oil.

Rule two: Be certain each tire in a dual wheel position carries the same amount of air as it’s mate and that both tires are within an acceptable diameter range. Otherwise, both tires are in jeopardy and you are setting yourself up for a tire failure - and maybe even two tire failures. The TRIB web site, www.retread.org, has an excellent article titled Dual Wheel Positions (Matching of Tires) which provides guidelines on how to properly maintain duals. It is worth reading and sharing with everyone in your organization who touches tires. It can be found in our Tires from A-Z section on our web site.

Rule three: Check your vehicle alignment on a regular basis. A properly done front end alignment doesn’t cost, it pays! Your drivers will love the difference a properly aligned vehicle makes and so will your tires.

The Tire Retread Information Bureau has a vested interest in continually bringing you information about proper tire maintenance. We want your tires, hopefully retreads, to be trouble free so that you can concentrate on more important things than being stuck on the side of the highway at three in the morning after having thrown an alligator on the highway.

You CAN do it. Be brave. Tame that alligator! We will all be better off if you do.