LOL! I bet that hippie heard that BANG sound and immediately remembered that scene from "Easy Rider". Probably had to pull over to a rest stop to change his underwear.

And pant if he had to... if it's quite bigger...

That would teach him a lesson for not mess with oldfart truck of your.

Looking at that airbag, you might need more than a new tire.

most new trailers the airbags deflate when you set the brakes

yeah the airbags deflate when i set the brakes & i'm hauling 44,000 lbs so they are under strain to stay up anyway

My current truck tops out about 45 and change. but pete's are dam heavy trucks anyway
it's also a loud ass bitch, almost makes me wish for that last Cascadia again. Now THAT was a quite truck!

i had a new Cascadia (it had 45 miles on it!) and it was quiet as night. didn't have much for internal storage room though, i ended up taking out half of a cupboard to make room for my electric cooler.

Currently drive an '05 International 9400i with a scant 705,000 miles on it.

you must either be an O and O or working for a Very Small company

I used to work for Western Express out of Nashville. but after 5 and a half years, three of which I had not had a raise in, I decided that hauling reefer would be easier
50% pay increase, twice as much home time, I actually bet paid layover and detention now.
I've considered going Owner Op... but not only do I NOT have the credit for it, I also do not know enough about the business side of it to feel comfortable striking out on my own

small company, about 65 trucks. was working for JB hunt, but after 4 years, and a pay cut + less than 2 days off per week i finally got fed up an quit.

I have Twice as much home time now as I did with that last company, and I only get home every OTHER weekend. I'm not sure I could handle being home much more than that after 10 years of staying out for a month or two at a time...

Rofl, I hate it when that happens. thought it'd rather hear it, whenever my tires go flat it's always silent so I don't notice till I hear the scrapping of my rim o.O

you talking big truck or regular auto?

Both, No matter what I drive it always happens like that. worst ever was the inner tires on my trailer went flat sitting the night at a flying J, didn't run anything over or nothing, still went flat

Gah. I hate it when an innie goes out first.

I don't. if the Scale doesn't see it they won't shut you down at the chicken coop.
and I can mosey on down a couple more miles real slow like to get to a T & A and have it changed out, grab some chow, and hit the big road again.

Aha. Shows you I've got a lot to learn.

I've been doing this for over a decade now, I have a slightly different perspective than most people

of course, that could just be my sick and twisted sense of humor too

strangely, i had just passed an inspection station when this happened.

then the timing god smiles upon you, Hand

that sun of a bitch loves to pull this shit on me JUST as I am pulling INTO the scale

yikes

fuckin hippies... he needed scarin'

in the 10+ years I've been OTR, I think I've only had this happen maybe 4 times.

70% of the time I've had a flat it's leaked down slow
29% of the time it was flat when I got the trailer
I'd have to say less than 1% of the flats I've had have been blowouts

Once, I was trying to back up and got up on the curb, came off it at just the right, or wrong, angle and popped the tire off the bead. all I had to do was get it to set enough to refill it with air from the supplyline.

Be Safe Out There, Driver

ironically that trailer is equipped with the self inflation system...fat lotta good it does in this case though...

the reason these do this is the crappy glue used to retread tires
Could of been worse Look at mine! http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7873014/

Crap, I'm trapped in an endless loop. *click*

One of the very VERY Few times I wish I could thumbs up a post. :D

As for the tire. Son of a beech Driver... Should have left the lot lizard at the lot. ;P

My dad has a trucking business... And THAT is the reason he buys new... Cheaper in the long run.

yes I agree But drive ANY Interstate & see these "gators" everywhere

Yeah, I get scared around semis at times, but I give the truck driver's credit for what they do.

Hope there wasn't any other damage done.

aside from that hippie likely having to change his shorts, no.

Good to know. And yeah, I had a similar experience to the 'hippie' on a two lane road. Basically I pull out to pass and the a-hole sped up to keep me from passing AND there was traffic coming. So the next opportunity I had I got around and showed him my appreciation for his actions.

you could always take a page from the Blues Brothers, and carry a bag of roofing nails in your car...

Man, I've seen 'detreads' on the shoulders before, and sometimes in the travel lanes, but this id the first time I've seen a detread still clinging to the retread it was recently part of.

It may be more annoying to replace a blown innie than a blown outie, at least it's marginally safer for motorists near the axle when it blows. Mythbusters proved that an 'explosive de-treading' can smash through a passenger side window and take the driver''s head partway off (small consolation, it's likely to saw open ALL the important blood vessels on the side of the neck). That's why I've developed an 'irrational fear' of being within a carlength of ANY truck axle.

truck drivers call full detreads "alligators" due to their appearance from a distance.

But you have a good safe idea about large trucks; everyone should always keep a distance from large trucks at all times, as our visibility is poorer than most and if we can't see you and we need to move in a hurry, you're gonna lose every single time!

appearance, and on Alligator Alley in FLA the gators lie on the road sunning themselves, just like tread off of a tire

Minimum Safe Distance is three times the trucks lengths in separation at MINIMUM (i.e. about 300 feet at 50mph)

Never knew about the 'alligator' name. I went for more of a clever Danny Kaye wordplay theme when I came up with the name.

It's generally a good idea not to ask me about how I helped someone move their furniture, I'm likely to describe how I tried getting their prefabricated computer desk through the doorway, then defabricated the prefabricated computer desk to get it out. then when we got to his new place I refabricated the defabricated prefabricated computer desk and set his computer up on the refabricated defabricated prefabricated computer desk.

And yes I can get all that out without tripping on my tongue. The pessile with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon, the chalice from the palace holds the brew that is true.

Aw, ya still got seven left! No biggie!

17 left...

On the whole rig, yus.

Damn, I bet getting that thread out would be FUN. But hey, that's what mechanics are for. :-P

Lets just hope that when the tire tread peeled off & wrapped around the axle, that it did not damage any brake lines.