Cheap tires + Speed = Blown tire
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...
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mich800 wrote:ChuckSteed wrote:
Everytime I read post about my tires are rated at 80 plus and i tow at 75 I cringe. Too fast folks and your costing yourself extra money on waste fuel. I’ll drive at 62 , get much better fuel mileage, and leave myself a safety margin should an issue arise.
Safety margin has more to do with following distance and situational awareness. I average between 1-2k miles per week and I would say the proportion of bad fast drivers is the same as the proportion of slow bad drivers. Slow does not equal safe in much the same way fast does not equal unsafe.
Of course the slow drivers will create a much smaller debris field, and since they might care about safety, they might have decent tires in the first place.
