Is it me or is it time to ban recap tires from on-highway use?

As we all know...especially those whose A/C hasn't had a tooner-up lately...it was a pretty warm week in most of the country. Seems like as soon as that first hit of hot weather comes around you see a blown-up tire about every 50 feet along a major interstate and some boober chillin' on the side of the road over it. Enough is enough IMO. Somehow I doubt they tolerate this nonsense over on European truck routes. The animals...eh whadaya gonna do. The roadway conditions...yeah I'd like to strangle somebody in Indiana and couple of other pathetically incompetent states who allow that to persist, but the tires? C'mon that's an easy one.

 

It's usually a trailer tire on some piece of crap dry van. Had one go on me once near Austintown, OH. I said eff it and drove a few miles to the T/A to get it fixed about 10x faster and not sit there being "that guy" on the side of the road. Pulled lots of containers in NJ and rarely had a problem with the tube tires. Some newer port chassis have radials now.

 

I agree, some people are bozos about that. If it's safe and clear to do so I will jump over if somebody is on the shoulder or a conga-line of cars or a truck is crowding in. If it's not safe to do that, sometimes you just have to suck it up and slow it down in the spirit of defensive driving. People who are wayy off the fog line there's no need to move over for.

 

There would be more rolled over trucks than I-80 across PA during a winter storm.

 

Surely you jest. Properly inflated virgin radial tires rarely do that. If they are damaged by foreign objects that's different.