24-Hour Roadside Assistance in De Soto, MO

When a tire goes on a loaded truck, the instinct is to keep rolling to somewhere better: the next wide spot, the next lot, the yard a few miles on. On a narrow two-lane road with little or no shoulder, that instinct is understandable. It is also expensive more often than drivers expect.

A tire run flat under load does not stay a tire problem for long. The sidewall folds and overheats, the casing is finished, and within a short distance the wheel itself can be bent or cracked. On a dual position the neighbor tire is now carrying both loads and starts to fail too. A single flat becomes two tires and a wheel.

Safety decides it, not the repair bill. If the unit is stopped somewhere it could be hit, on a blind bend or in a live lane, move it as little as you can to get clear, slowly. If it is somewhere you can be seen and passed safely, stay there, put the triangles out, and call.

Whether the unit can still move under its own power, and whether it has already been driven on the flat. The second matters because it changes what the technician should bring: a tire only, or a tire and possibly a wheel.

Then the usual: where you are, which way you were heading, the tire size and position, and what you are carrying.

Commercial units: tractors, trailers, straight trucks, work trucks and equipment. Authorization is settled in advance on a fleet account, and a wheel that did get damaged can go to wheel refurbishing at this store for an assessment.

Fenton runs roadside assistance toward St. Louis, and Viburnum to the southwest.

The De Soto store is open Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM, and is managed by Cathy Bequette.

See the national roadside assistance page for all 48 locations.