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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;slow.rider, post: 11149129, member: 196102&quot;]One way is to get digital tire pressure monitors which also measure temperature.&nbsp; They give a readout on a little pager-looking thing that you stick on your dash, and sound an alarm at your predetermined threshholds.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But if you&#039;re doing hazmat regularly then you&#039;re theoretically also doing your 150 mile tire and securement checks regularly too, which should involve touching the tires.&nbsp; Note the &quot;normal&quot; tire temp, and you&#039;ll start to be able to recognize overheating before too long.&nbsp; As mentioned already, an overheated tire is over 195 degrees.&nbsp; A point of reference is the boiling temperature of water, 212 degrees.&nbsp; So 195 is basically hot enough to scald your hand within like a second or two, whereas decent quality virgin tires should not be a whole lot warmer than the asphalt.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first time across the rockies west of Denver, I was still fairly new and I was taking the downhills a little too fast, riding the brakes a little too hard on a hot day, and some of my tires got up to like 240 degrees from the heat transfer.&nbsp; Luckily my handy dandy tire monitor kicked into action and there was a rest stop ahead where I stopped and let them cool for a couple of hours.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t a hazmat load so I didn&#039;t need police or anything but they were only the medium quality tires that came on the truck when I bought it - Cooper Roadmasters - and they handled it good enough to where I went on to get over a couple hundred thousand miles out of them before replacing.&nbsp; If they&#039;d have been el cheapo no-name brand or even worse, recaps, my guess is it could have been a big ugly mess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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