Rockport, Texas
Saltwater Flats RV Resort
Weather Condition; High 67 Low 59, Damp and Cloudy
We have been extremely busy getting things done around here.
We had to locate a surety bonding company so we could get the required
VIP Bond for our summer gate attendant job. We didn’t know anything about
surety bonds until we bid on this job. We made a few phone calls and found an
insurance agency in Rockport that had a underwriter that writes surety bonds.
We stopped by the insurance office and talked with an agent. We explained to her what we needed and she
made a phone call. She said she had an underwriter that could do the surety
bond. We were given an application to fill out.
We went home, filled out the application. The following morning we
returned the application to the insurance office.
Next we needed to replace the tires on the trailer. We did some
research and decided to get our tire at Discount Tire. We buy our truck tires
from them, so why not!
Several days went by and we still hadn’t heard anything from the
insurance company regarding the bond. Dawn was starting to get nervous that
maybe we were not going to get bonded. I told her, there wasn’t any reason we
wouldn’t. She still worried anyway.
I called the agent on Friday morning and left a message. We ran a few
errands and did some housekeeping. At 4:30 the phone rang. It was the agent
telling me that the bond would cost $100.00 and that we needed to pay for the
bond up front.
Dawn and I jumped in the truck and ran to the agent’s office which
closes at 5:00.
Now back to the tires, we got a quote for our tires at Craig’s Tires in
Rockport. We then called Discount Tire and got a quote from them. Looks like Discount
Tire is about $40.00 cheaper per tire.
We talked with Daryl and scheduled a day that he could take our tires
off the trailer so we could go to Discount Tire in Corpus Christi. That’s the
nearest store to us.
On Monday, Daryl showed up and jacked up the trailer and loaded the
tires into the truck for us.
You know we’re a Red Neck when your
trailer is sitting on blocks!!!
While we were gone a rumor went through the park that our
tires were repoed! Thanks Marsha.
We decided to go with the Yokohama Geolandar tires.
We sat at the window and watched as they
worked on replacing our tires. It
normally doesn’t take long at Discount Tire but we were lucky enough to get the
new kid in the tire shop. We watched him
take our old tires on the rims and install new valve stems. He then put the new
tires on and go them all aired up. He had the new tires lined up ready for the
spin balance machine that was in use, when the shop foreman walked over and
started removing the valve stems. Dawn and I looked at each other and said “What
The Heck!”
The kid started the procedure all over again. We watched as he redid each tire. Once he was
finished, he started with the spin balance. He seemed to struggle with the spin
balance machine. The shop foreman went over and helped him with a couple of the
tires. We noticed that in all the confusion, one of the tires was put on the
machine and then taken off without being spin balanced.
When it was time for us to load up the tires, we told the kid that one
was not spin balanced. I showed him which one got skipped. He told me they were
all done and I explained to him that we were watching and knew what happened.
He took it back and ran it through the machine. Dawn noticed that all the tires
were 2012 except for one. She told the foreman she wanted all of the tires to
be 2012’s. They grabbed it up and replaced it. We had to wait a little longer
but we got what we wanted.
We returned home about 2:30 and waited about 15 minutes for Daryl to
return and put our new tires on the trailer.
We are so very, very glad to have new tires on our rig. We feel safer
already!
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