Steer tire blowout sends trucker into oncoming traffic

Was he holding the steering wheel with one finger ?

 

Okay all you super truckers I have been driving for 20years and have had 4 steer tire blowouts in my life and every one was different in the way the truck acted and handled but my last one was the worst total the truck and left me with a head injury . Was passing a slower truck . Moved into the hammer lane and started my pass hit a peace of debris and all hell broke loose from their own I was just there for the ride nothing I could do to control it don't remember much about the accident only what witnesses saw said left front steer tire dug into the gravel and then front end got tangled up in the cable guardrail went through media wound up jackknifed facing the other lane thank God nobody else was injured but sometimes you have no control over what is going on so before you judge another driver's actions be careful cuz the next time it might be you and I wish this on no driver because this may just end my career still sitting out until I can go see neurologist

 

The only one way you can manage a loss of a steer is to slam your hammer to the floor, hold on to the wheel and control that mf'er and slowly ease off until you get her off to the side. You will have to add some really drastic input into the wheel to hold her otherwise she is just going to run off like this one did.

If you left the pavement well.. there is very little to no control left on the grass/gravel.

I have never lost a steer in my lifetime. I have caught bad steers early in pretrips or during certain situations it will put up in viberation etc that is not normal etc now and then and both steers are replaced no questions asked.

Any time there is a accident anything can happen in one of a thousand ways from that moment. So there isnt really any point in trying to say this is what you do or that is what you do. If both of your hands are on the wheel if something happens you have a fighting chance is all I say. If you are only a finger on that wheel, she is going to take that bit and run you clear off the road like happened in this video.

 

That’s normal,it’s called driving a “Freight Shaker”!!

 

I've had a right side steer tire blow out on me and I had no issue maintaining lane control and easing onto the shoulder. I was deadheading at the time.

 

I noticed a shimmy in my front end,thought it was suspension.A few days later L/S blew.
Now I Know!

 

I had a right steer tire blow out when I had about six weeks of driving experience. It didn't blow hard, more like a very fast leak, went all the way down in about ten seconds. I got it onto the shoulder and stopped. My trainer's truck had an air gauge on the dash for the steers and all the drives with those remote sensors so you could see air pressure in all ten tires by clicking through. His steers had been at 85 the whole time I was on his truck. I told him that was low, shouldn't we put some air in them, and he said, Nah, it's fine, with the look of "stupid trainee trying to tell me how to run a truck, I've been doing this for nine months!" Sure enough, sidewall blowout, just like the picture above, except there was no nail in the tread on my trainer's tire.

Check your tire pressure every once in a while with a tire gauge, drivers. I remember reading somewhere that most tire blowouts are sidewall blowouts from low air pressure.