And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When I owned a big truck, I found it was less expensive long term to use virgin tires instead of recaps, they lasted longer, didnt blow out, and you got money back for the virgin casing that had not been recapped yet.
Had a similar experience driving a hire car in England except it as a potato sized rock that had been wedged between the 2 dual rear wheels of a lorry I was driving about 60 feet behind. I saw the sucker come loose and it was like slow motion as it flew back and came directly at my head. It hit the windscreen which spider webbed, but the force drove it through the glass and in fell on the dashboard.
I get nervous passing trucks, wondering if a blowout might happen when I'm right next to them. I hurry to get by, but I see a lot people with their cruise control on take 2 minutes to pass a truck.
Those people are stupid. Back when I was driving truck in the oil field, I blew a trailer tire while a drop-top Eldorado was slowly going around me much as you described. Back roads had been wet and muddy and there'd been no time to wash the underside of the trailer and it looked like a bomb had gone off, which, in a way, it had, when all that dried mud went flying. Saw him diving for the shoulder, possibly to clean another kind of mud from out his shorts. Recaps, by the way, the only kind those cheap bastards I was working for would buy except for steering axle tires.
I agree. Those people are stupid. Anything can happen when you are right next to a big rig, and it could be fatal for the smaller vehicle. When I pass a big rig, I don’t fart around. Get out of the danger zone as quickly as possible.
If the gator is a full circle tread, it most likely came off a car. Cars don't tear up a tire so it lays flat, the sidewalls go first, so it remains a ring. I patrolled the freeways for 5 years, so got a good look at lost tire treads.
Gator!
ReplyDeleteSafety glass can be a wonderful thing!
ReplyDeleteRe-treads tires are dangerous, should be outlawed for accidents such as this shows.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the additional cost that would put on the trucking industry?
DeleteIMHO footing the bill for additional costs are what businesses have to face. If it was cheap and easy, everyone would be into trucking.
DeleteWhen I owned a big truck, I found it was less expensive long term to use virgin tires instead of recaps, they lasted longer, didnt blow out, and you got money back for the virgin casing that had not been recapped yet.
DeleteTailgating does have its rewards.
ReplyDeleteHad a similar experience driving a hire car in England except it as a potato sized rock that had been wedged between the 2 dual rear wheels of a lorry I was driving about 60 feet behind. I saw the sucker come loose and it was like slow motion as it flew back and came directly at my head. It hit the windscreen which spider webbed, but the force drove it through the glass and in fell on the dashboard.
ReplyDeleteI get nervous passing trucks, wondering if a blowout might happen when I'm right next to them. I hurry to get by, but I see a lot people with their cruise control on take 2 minutes to pass a truck.
ReplyDeleteThose people are stupid. Back when I was driving truck in the oil field, I blew a trailer tire while a drop-top Eldorado was slowly going around me much as you described. Back roads had been wet and muddy and there'd been no time to wash the underside of the trailer and it looked like a bomb had gone off, which, in a way, it had, when all that dried mud went flying. Saw him diving for the shoulder, possibly to clean another kind of mud from out his shorts. Recaps, by the way, the only kind those cheap bastards I was working for would buy except for steering axle tires.
DeleteI agree. Those people are stupid. Anything can happen when you are right next to a big rig, and it could be fatal for the smaller vehicle.
DeleteWhen I pass a big rig, I don’t fart around. Get out of the danger zone as quickly as possible.
I watched a blow out shoot a chunk of rubber 60ft in the air. Was like slo mo. Landed lane next to me.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at all of the alligators on the side of the road, you will see that a very large percentage of them did not come from trucks.
ReplyDeleteIf the gator is a full circle tread, it most likely came off a car. Cars don't tear up a tire so it lays flat, the sidewalls go first, so it remains a ring. I patrolled the freeways for 5 years, so got a good look at lost tire treads.
DeleteSugar beet trucks make me nervous, beets are like a football sized rock and usually loaded above the rim of the truck bed.
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