Flying tire kills driver (NY) on I-95

I once watched as a driver followed a another driver in to the truck stop just to tell him he was about to loose his wheel. I watched them talk as I pumped fuel and they walked to the wheel in questions and removed what was left of the lug nuts with their bare hands.
Then just Friday I watched a can hauler drive up the i 5 with a flat. I pulled up next to him and he just waved me on to pass him LOL and he kept driving another 10 miles before he got off LOL

This is why dot is all over the industry.

 

I wish the guy that told me pre-trip wasn't the most important thing a newbie should know would come view this thread. It's a tune changer.

 

Maybe.

But I see them always dot the nice trucks and the garbage goes by.

 

I can tell you that when I worked at CF in Buffalo, when something was wrong with the unit I would take it to the shop and the shop would fix it right before it left the property.

But at ABF it was another story. The vendor who fixed our JUNK was more worried about his race car then anything we drove. Can you just image how many times my dispatcher would give my another unit. But for sure he knew who would drive that trash down the road. Scary,,,Real Scary

 

There are a few of those types lurking around this board.....I'm surprised the other one hasn't showed up yet.

 

This is why you should never smoke a doob before working on your wheel bearings.

 

After one of you evil DOT inspectors found broken trunnion bolts on my truck, I learned not to sweat the petty things...

 

Any follow up on the original story?

 

There's this...

http://www.lohud.com/article/201108...angels-?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Frontpage|s

The CBS local video at the bottom of post #2 does show a picture of the wheels. All of the lug nuts appear to be in place, and the end of the hub is blown out with the wheel set still attached to the axle end.

Wheel seal leaks are fairly obvious... oil loss leading to overheating of the bearings and failure, unless it was a catastrophic failure of one of the components that occured after the driver departed his last stop. The number of times I see drivers hook to a trailer and blow out of a lot without even looking it over makes you wonder what happened here. I think this kind of accident is more common than one would expect - I recall hearing about a tire (not sure if it was the whole set) coming off of a container frame in Denver within the last year, and another one a year before that.

It's not the kind of thing that would normally excite the national media like the bus crash up there a few months ago... that's what you get when you search for "I95 accident." The reason I even know about the two Denver incidents is that I come from there and scan the local paper. The reason those two incidents were even picked up by "The Denver Post" was the consequences... a death of someone in each case who just happened to be there.

This kind of equipment failure might be something that more of us should take an interest in preventing since the consquences are tragic. It takes what, a minute or two to actually look at the tandems, and stick your head underneath the trailer to glance at the condition of them?

 

SmokeyCowboy009, you sir are quite ignorant! I don't care where someone may be from, I think it's sad to hear when someone dies.