Blow outs?

I have had a super single on my drives go flat without feeling it. Ran over a railroad tie doing about 25 mph. When I got out I noticed it was flat. I drove for a mile or two without knowing.

It looks like the OP had a drastic air loss close to his destination and did not know it or feel it. During the backing process of angles the tire being flat and the weight on it tore the sidewall out. The rim shows very little damage.

If it blew going down the road at higher speeds the tire would have shredded off. I am sure if it blew at higher speeds the rim would have been hugging the ground.

Just make sure road service understands you have single wides. TA called beforehand and my road service failed to tell them I had single wides. If TA did not call he would have come out with a regular tire on a one way trip of 30 miles.

 

It does not look like it is blown out to me (unless my eyes are getting worse, which they kinda are), it looks like you ran with is flat. Depending on how you made your turns going into the receiver it could have came off the rim there.

 

Turn your phone off. Most phone will go alarm only and squelch calls. Hope you get your sleep before rolling again.

 

It's drivers like u that tend to forget when something have happen to them while driving. And u think it's easier to talk about other people. Oh and i'm quite sure your entire driving career is without a spot or blown tire. If u blow a tire on your tandem you can't feel that if you heavy or light your looking at over 53ft+ unless u stop your trk every 5min to check tires i'm quite sure u don't do that I would rather be out on road with this guy instead of u at least he did check his trk before he got ready to leave MAJORITY OF DRIVERS CHECK THEIR TRK WHEN THEY STOP like fuel, bathroom , etc u should retire for posting that statement
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Tell your company to read 390.5. It's not an accident and they shouldn't be allowed to ding you as such. It's sounds like they are trying to pull a fast one with the insurance company to pay for it.

The tire could of been curbed 2 weeks ago and is now failing. It necessarily just didn't happen. You can't see broken bands inside a tire.

You can run into the median and if you can get pulled out and drive off it's not an accident. That's all in the FMCSA FAQ's.

 

A road hazard like a bolt could put a hole in the tread and you wouldn't hear it. It doesn't take that long for them to start falling apart especially at highway speeds.

Accident report? That does not sound good I'd ask them why.

 

I would dispute the accident part and not sign anything saying it was. Did you get pictures of the tire pieces in the street? The rim doesn't look damaged, they should glad of that, for had it truly blown out at highway speeds they would be buying one of those too.

 

I've had a few blowouts or been in a truck with flats and blowouts in drive or trailer tires (duals). The experience with trailer tires has ranged from full scale blow out, no mistake about it, loud bang and rubber/wire shrapnel like a grenade.... to riding along and hearing a very faint "pop" and pulling over to check it out to find that a sidewall patched tire had blown (roadside guy said those were a "no no").... to pulling into a company terminal, dropping the trailer, only to have someone tell me that I had a flat tire (only flat with no rubber or rim damage) and no experience of poor performance.

The range of experience with duals is everything from really a noticeable explosion to no sound or "event" at all, just a flat tire. I stop more frequently in hot weather for "leg shakers and tire kickers" to keep an eye on the tires and use a tire gauge for pretrip inspections. Doing drop and hooks is challenging when you are on a tight time schedule, because you have 8 new tires to gauge up before rolling, and I've had my share of calling road service to a customer's yard to deal with tire issues.

My overall point is that if that tire had gone flat shortly before arriving at the customer's yard, without any explosive sound, then that can be understood. You can do thorough pretrips and reinspect at each stop along the way, and tires can still go on you. Just stay heads up, watch the mirrors, and keep the volume down on the music. I do rock out now and then, but it does make me nervous about not being vigilant enough.