Blown tire: how far do you think I can drive?

I am not a trucker. I'm also not a rocket scientist. But it doesn't take either to see that what jamin did was a calculated risk.
This is great thread for noobies, I think. I read it from beginning to end. I'm also not a math whiz, but sorry, Faulk, Jaf's math holds up.

Would I, as a noobie, take that risk? No way. As a noobie, you're essentially "on probation".
The other thing- again, not a rocket scientist...but...you're carrying 98,000 lbs of effing fuel!! I don't care if it's "just diesel".

One time years ago I made a "calculated risk" on Christmas day. I thought "No way will CHIPS have a radar trap on Christmas!" I said gleefully. Was nabbed doing 85 in a 65. Officer said, "Wow, I didn't know Toyota Corollas could go that fast"....

At the end of the day, is it illegal? As DeNiro would say, "Li'l bit"...

 

this is actually the best quote of the entire thread. you can't make this stuff up

 

as i've seen on this thread & in this forum; there are lots of new drivers, with no training to very little experience that don't know what in the world they are doing, taking risks that involve the motoring public around u as well as ur own self. common sense has left alot of them

 

I have seen, while riding with my husband, a truck ahead of us in the slow lane, one tire on the van end up shreading up in long chunks which were thrown into the side of a brand new pickup a man behind him was driving; I doubt if the p/u owner was very happy about it. The trailer tires are just another one of the things a lot of drivers don't take responsibility for when dropping off a load, it's someone else's problem then if they are flat or missing tread. Companies that mandate you don't have tires fixed or repaired if you are on the road should be fined for making you drive an unsafe trailer.

 

CondoCruiser,i was thinking the following information might be usefull:

Heat in a tire is generated not by friction but by flexing.
Namely the flexing off the sidewall.
That is also the reason for most blow outs.
Tire deflates
Becomes lower
Sidewalls can flex more
This heats up the tire
The sudden rise in temperature causes the air left in the tire to expand thus raising pressure
But because you have run with the sidewalls flexing to much ,they become more fragile thus blowing.

 

that is so true right there

 

like always the driver is responsible; if he/she is tooo lazy to stop & get the tire repaired, then they deserve the consequences of whatever they should be

 

There is on totally uncontestable fact on this entire thread-

HE MADE IT!!

Evrything is cool, it all worked out.

I would have done the same thing (maybe a little bit slower)

 

Dump some of your pm, your mail box is full. Jerry was right all is good!

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...idents/185157-watched-a-truck-catch-fire.html

A link that might be usefull in making a deciscion if you want to stop or keep running.