Anything Can Happen.......

You're absolutely right, just because something is right when you do your walk-around doesn't mean that it will still be right the next time. Good job catching it before something went seriously wrong.

 

I can relate a similar experience. . Pulling a grain wagon. .

Me and another driver racing across I70 in the middle of the night. . Running together to get to east st louis and talking on cb..I told him I was going to have a blow out before we got there. .I was feeling a strange vibration. . We stopped. . Looked. . Felt the tires and nothing. . So on we went. . Wide open. .97 mph. Good times!

Reached the shipper. . Got up couple hours later. . Loaded. . And while crossing scales weighing out another driver stopped me. . Said my driver side drive tires were wobbling.. got out and looked. .

I had 2 lug nuts remaining and they were at the end of the studs. . The other studs were either broken or had wollered the wheel holes egg shaped.

Called the owner of the company and he wanted to put lug nuts on the other 2 studs and have me drive 200 miles back to the yard. Um NO!

They sent a road service truck. . Had to replace both wheels. . The hub and all lug nuts with studs. .

I quit shortly after that. .idiot owner worried about grain vs wheels flying off the truck and crumpling a 4 wheeler.

 

We had the washers under the lug nuts split... Tire got over tightened... Luckily caught it on a pretrip... If it was just one, on one tire would have just replaced that one and called it an oops... Found two! One on each steer tire... Changed out ALL lug nuts!

 

Once many years ago just west of Pennwell, TX, before the interstate was competed, I was east bound with a bull hauler a ways in front of me. We were running about 80 & all of a sudden his left rear outside trailer tire came off. At that time they was working on the interstate, that tire went way up in the air & my eyes were watching it. When it peaked out & started down my eyes caught a 4 wheeler coming from the other direction on the west bound services road & I clinched up because for a moment I thought it would hit that car. It didn't, it went on out in the field.


I hollered at the bull hauler on the CB telling him & he did not believe me, he would not stop. He told me to leave him alone, that he did not have time to stop for nothing. I went ahead & passed him & went on because if anything bad was going to happen I did not want to be around to witness it. I still remember that bull wagon to this day, it was a black conventional Pete & was all dressed up.


One never knows when something like that may happen.

 

I want to thank the original poster for share his story. It is just to bad that has been subjected to the metric system. Real truck drivers talk about miles not kilometers.

And I am of course joking. Thank you and I am glad that you handled the problem before someone got hurt.

 

great catch, some mental midget who did the tire work should have placed a retorque card where you would find it hooking up, must have been too much work for him.

 

Great eye there man.....never take stuff like that for granted. Any time spent checking things out is time always well spent.