Are you supposed to feel a tire blowout?

I blew a tire inside the baytown tunnel once, talk about loud and people trying to dodge flying rubber with no where to dodge. lol

 

you wait until someone blows a super single passing you. that one you can feel in your chest.

 

Yeah, a blowout is one thing, but a "run flat", you might never notice, until the other dual blows out because of the extra stress( super singles does not apply) I hauled rail cans for 4 years, and flat tires were an every other day thing. I knew the Pomps guy on a 1st name basis. If you didn't have a flat, or blowout, they all used caps, in a couple days, you knew one was coming, so I always watched them in my mirrors like a hawk. If there were chunks flying off, you really should have noticed that, unless at night. I'd say you got off pretty easy.

 

It happens.
I have seen blowouts that would kill and some that hardly made a noise.
Don't worry about it.

 

I blew the steer tire I was sitting right on top of on a 631 cat scraper once. I was loaded and running wide open and it sounded like a bomb went off, dust flew and it smelled like the air in a tire, but when I got stopped and got off, I did not have a flat. I had lowered the can, so got back on and raised it to put the weight back on and no flat. Thee blade hand heard it and came over, we looked at the air tanks and they were intact and full, so I went and dumped and went to lunch.
During lunch the mechanics went over anything we needed on our rigs, so I told the chief mechanic I had blown a tire, he ask me which one and I had to tell him I didn't know, he looked at me pretty funny and left, came back and told me I was loosing my mind, nothing was wrong with my tires. I told him there wass, I just could not tell him what it was, or which one, but thought it was the left front. lol
He came back before lunch was over and told me it was going down now, so I ask to see it when they got it off. It had blown a chunk about a foot long and 4 inches wide off on the inside and the air pushed it right back against the tire, not letting it go flat for a while. I had never heard of anything like it.

 

I blew a steer heading east down I10 away from LA. I definitely felt that. Truck swerved side to side, pulled hard left, I corrected right and noting happened, corrected more then pulled hard right, small correct to left and it pulled hard left... and slowing down too much. I accelerated to get it over to the curb before traffic started passing me. Accelerating have me a little more control, less swerving.

 

I was in a lunch shack on a shovel rebuild pad in a mine when a passing 797 CAT had a blowout about a quarter kilometer away. The shockwave felt like someone tossed a cinder block at the trailer wall. Lot of energy in those big tires.

 

Many years ago while I was driving a car and passing a rig, one of his trailer tires blew and a gator flew threw the back seat door window and landed in the back seat. It probably weighed 20 pounds. I never cruised next to a rig after that for very long.

 

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I understand these are test conditions and are unlikely to play out this perfect in real life but that's pretty insane!

 

Blew a trailer tire out on a ld can at hiway speeds and the fun started. It took our 2 more on that axle grouping. 1 left and leaning. Should of seen the traffic behind me. NASCAR at its finest.