Last year around this time I posted how everybody on the highway whether car or truck and trailer were blowing by me and I passed maybe 2 people over several hours on the road with my cruise set at 67 mph. Some here even criticized me for going 67 as to fast.Today on the way home from a trip in Indiana I have my cruise set now at 65. Coming up from behind me on the highway and passing me is a 1/2 ton truck pulling a trailer that was 30 ish feet long and moving along at a good clip - 75 mph+. He no sooner pulls in front of me and a tire on the drivers side blows. I never seen an actual tire blow before but it was quite a site to see all kinds of **** in the air. It looked like a snow storm of white stuff which I'm not sure what it was other that maybe insulation from a laminated floor perhaps. He realized it right away and pulled off safely on the side of the road.Any way this made me even more of a believer in maintaining a proper speed and I need to upgrade my tires soon.Dan

Similar happened to me, but a large heavy boat on a tandem axle trailer on narrow two lane. Like you, based on my speed of 65 I would guess him at 75+. No sooner had he pulled back in the lane than smoke started pouring off a street side tire quickly followed by flying debris. No shoulder so he had to pull off in ditch. Wasn’t going to pull my 5er into the ditch so left him to his own folly.No idea what kind of tires he had.

My trailer has commercial-grade truck tires on it (and non-Chinese made) so I don't have any worries about speed.

you don,t really beleave that do you?? anybody can have a flat.

That's why I went with the new Carlisle RV Trail Radial; good tire and higher speed rating.

Cheap tires + Speed = Blown tire | Good Sam Community

BB_TX
Nomad
Aug 05, 2018
Similar happened to me, but a large heavy boat on a tandem axle trailer on narrow two lane. Like you, based on my speed of 65 I would guess him at 75+. No sooner had he pulled back in the lane than smoke started pouring off a street side tire quickly followed by flying debris. No shoulder so he had to pull off in ditch. Wasn’t going to pull my 5er into the ditch so left him to his own folly.

No idea what kind of tires he had.
azdryheat
Explorer
Aug 05, 2018
My trailer has commercial-grade truck tires on it (and non-Chinese made) so I don't have any worries about speed.
midnightsadie
Explorer II
Aug 05, 2018
you don,t really beleave that do you?? anybody can have a flat.
2oldman
Explorer II
Aug 05, 2018
I beleave it.
Ron3rd
Explorer III
Aug 05, 2018
That's why I went with the new Carlisle RV Trail Radial; good tire and higher speed rating.
2edgesword
Explorer
Aug 05, 2018
Everyone has their own comfort zone. I’m never in any rush to get somewhere while I’m towing so 60mph in the right lane is plenty fast for me. And I don’t get bothered at all by the number of people passing me.
OFDPOS
Explorer
Aug 05, 2018
More like aged out tires not chinese made tires or or or or ..

Every spring well most summer long living by water ways, see em all the time boat trailers parked on side of freeway jacked up tire/wheel missing allot of time even spindle too !
They just park em at the end of last boating season with no maintenance and come spring hit the road on dried up rusted wheel bearings to cracked aged out tires.

Could be the same thing here stated in OP , we all can guess and armchair quarter back and speculate anything... ;)
dodge_guy
Explorer II
Aug 05, 2018
My tires are rated at 81 mph. I travel at 75 if allowed. never had a flat in 15 years of traveling.

However, I`m curious. how do you know they were cheap Chinese made tires. and did you have a radar gun to get his speed? Otherwise all you seen was a blowout on the highway!
mich800
Explorer
Aug 05, 2018
dodge guy wrote:
My tires are rated at 81 mph. I travel at 75 if allowed. never had a flat in 15 years of traveling.

However, I`m curious. how do you know they were cheap Chinese made tires. and did you have a radar gun to get his speed? Otherwise all you seen was a blowout on the highway!

Good points. This past weekend we saw at least a half dozen vehicles on the side of the road with flats. Every single one was a car.
Hammerboy
Explorer
Aug 06, 2018
I don't know for a fact they were cheap Chinese tires. It was an assumption as it looked like a pretty new entry level trailer that was going way too fast in my opinion.

Regardless of what the facts were it made me be more aware of the situation and how best to try avoid being that guy.

Dan