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 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
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
