[Scott Douglas]

Dad always had my brother and I pack the wheel bearings on the Boles Aero Zenith tandem axle trailer we had before every camping trip. He liked to run retreaded tires on the trailer. Looking back this was probably a cost savings as we only used it once maybe twice per year. We'd have blow outs every once in a while but the experience of packing the bearings meant we, my brother and I, were pretty quick at changing tires.
I guess my always having good tires on our cars comes from that experience, kind of like the experience my dad had of burning out a wheel bearing on a trailer up in Alaska out in the middle of nowhere influenced him.