Super single tires vs dually tires

i have not seen one blow like that personally yet. although a few months ago i came up on a truck that blew a 20k flotation steer tire moments after it happened. took the entire drivers side of the hood off the truck lots of other damage as well, he also took a ride from the right lane threw the center median across oncoming traffic and down into the ditch on the opposite side of the highway. luckily no one else got hurt oncoming cars noticed him coming and got on the breaks. driver was a little shaken up but ok. i kinda wish i would have taken some pictures. but point is that big of a tire does have a lot of mass if its blows out and starts flinging rubber around.

 

Was that a recap, or did the tire just fall apart? I diodn't think they did recaps on SS...

 

There's a bunch of good things about them, all of which are irrelvant as far as I'm concerned because you don't have any redundancy if you (WHEN you) have a flat - when a SS goes flat, you're stuck right wherever you are until help can arrive and change the thing, IF another SS can be had to change with it. Just don't...

 

Ask someone with wide rear tires in a car if they are better in slick conditions.
The answer will be no.

A wider footprint might provide better gripping in a straight line, but it provides far less on curves.
The same can be said in a straight line when the weight distribution is lesser in slick conditions.

Running straight and steady on ice/snow is no problem.
The problem is when you have to make a turn. Any turn.
If you distribute the weight to a wider area it has less grip per square inch.

The wider the tire, the more you lose grip in turns.