Walmart blows tires, driver was lucky, semi burned.

Absolutely!!!!!!

 

Does the fact that most Walmart trailer tires are filled with Nitrogen make them blow like that? And more violently? That was horrible

 

dont know really

 

You'd think that Walmart maintain their trailers better than most of carriers which makes me think that If the driver overheated brakes then maybe if he'd kept going they would have cooled off but I guess it was the best for them to explode in the middle of nowhere, anyway. The fire extinguishers seemed pretty useless.
What makes sloppy drivers and noobs visible are the brake lights down the hill. An experienced guy barely touches them, letting the motor or jakes to do the job at appropriate downhill speed, you see very little of the red lights.


I hope the cop learned his lessen too - should have never let the guy under the trailer.
The dude could have easily died by a shrapnel. Correct me if I am wrong but those fire extinguishers are only good to put out flames not to transfer heat.

 

It is not the cops job to protect him as you say, his job is to enforce the law.

 

all true, but he didn't say that.

 

Not like their motto is To Serve And Protect or anything.....

 

You have very little time to do that.

Ive fought brake fires before. If it's tractor. Unhook first and pull way up before anything. Hit it with the bottle. If it's trailer, disconnect tractor, pull up. Hit trailer fire with bottle. out or not get the fire rolling inbound.

Ive told stories about one fire and that particular trailer did not have landing gear so unhooking was not option.

 

Who cares what their motto is. But just for the record the "protect" is meant as "enforcing the law." Not to stop you from doing something that might cause harm to yourself.
Just for the sake of argument the Supreme Court has ruled on this.

 

If were a cop or not, I would have told the guy to get the f... out of there. I am sure the cop will do the same next time he stops a smoking trailer. He just did not know.