Fatal tire loss

That's no good.

I don't know the facts, but all i can think is: WEAR A ####ING SEAT BELT. They are meant, specifically, to save you from getting tossed - because that's what puts you to a quick end.

 

I remember going through Student Training at Stevens Transport back in 2000 and they showed a couple of pictures of what can happen when you are tossed out of a truck in a Roll Over Accident.

The first picture was of a Ocean Container laying on the grassy median with a intact man's arm underneath it sticking out.

The second picture was of the same grassy spot once they lifted the Container off of his arm.

Let's just say, if you know what ground beef looks like, that's what the rest of the man's body looked like.

I always wear my seatbelt, the life you save, will be your own.

 

must have been a steer tire to lose control like that.
Seat belt and 2 hands on the wheel? could have helped?YES

 

I was wondering the same thing. Steer tire maybe but that's unusual unless one was just changed or worked on in some fashion. I guess the rim could just fail too. Sorry for his family's loss.

This video freaked me out the other day

http://www.wbaltv.com/article/conditions-icy-across-state-multiple-crashes-reported/8499009

 

That's it right there, man.
You're either thrown under the rig and ground to a smear on the concrete, or you're thrown into traffic and used as a rumble strip for passing / approaching traffic.

It's easier for a Doc to fix a busted clavicle and to impact your intestines back into your ###-hole than it is to make you un-flat after your own trailer railroaded you.

Those images they show you... some scoff and think 'dramatics!'.... That's real. It's gruesome. I think not wearing a belt is a suicide wish. You don't care about you - am I to suspect that you care about me? No. Love for the world starts within thyself. Charity starts at home.

The irony is: I used to not wear a belt - years. Didn't care. For me, for you, for that mom and her little kids. I was a selfish prick. Now, tho I might look at my own life at times and say 'this thing is garbage'... there's no one coming down with me. No one will suffer my fall. Only my own.

/philosophical rambling

 

I had wheel bearings and kingpins replaced once. 9 months later I had a steer wheel come off. After investigation it turned out to be counterfeit bearings.

Just by the grace of God, there was no personal injury or property damage to anything other than my truck. You take a loaded truck at highway speed, then in a split second the right front steer is gone and it's sitting on the spindle coming to an abrupt stop. I'm a good driver, but a lot of things went in my favor in those few seconds.

Keep up with good maintenance, and good records, it helps when fingers are being pointed at you.

I used to think all of this type of incidence was a result of poor maintenance, that is not always true. Prayers to those involved and their families.

 

I tend to over analyze stuff like this but do you think it better to have thumbs inside the steering wheel or outside. Nobody keeps a death grip on the wheel at all times and if a tire blows do you think it would break/sprain your thumb making it harder to regain control. Or would it help to have thumbs in to help you catch the wheel before it gets out of control?

 

My opinion, with today's power steering you loose control by over reacting. If you don't panic, that pump and gear is more than capable of keeping a reasonable amount of control with that one good tire. It's not not like the days of the manual steering gears. Back then the steering wheel would break your wrist.

That's what my experience was, and it was a quick violent separation.

But like I said, a lot of things went in my favor in those few seconds.