Whose Problem Is It?

I'm guessing he did not retorque in 100-400 miles?

 

Was a torque wrench used to verify torque spec. ? Was it retorqued 50-100 miles later? Pretrip should have caught this. 3 months and how many miles in those months?

 

That's got to hurt but it could have been worse. Wheels could flown off and killed someone.
But still a pretrip should have caught this sooner.

I know tommorrow morning I am gonna spend sometime looking at all my lugs.

 

its the guy that owns the trailer fault for not looking at them daily if it way pretriped right he would have caught it before all the damage happened

 

After 3 months, I'd have to agree, it's on the driver. Take your pick, either for not doing a proper pre trip or for not rechecking the torque. Those torque sticks are a lazy tire guys way of installing tires anyway, IMO. Every vehicle I take in, whether it is my wife's car or the company trucks and trailers, get torqued 2 times by hand. First time to about 70% and second time to 100%. I stand and watch them do it. I have irritated several new tire guys, but after telling the store manager his guys can do it my way or he can take them back off and I'll go down the street, I get it done my way. I have used the same shop for 23 years now and it's understood my tires get done my way.

 

I've always torqued with a wrench after the impact gun....

But I don't get this retorque after 100 miles. Canada makes you do this .....

To the op the wheels probably weren't tight to begin with.

 

Its been three months, Its the Drivers fault. The driver has not been doing his pre-trips in the morning, tell your freind that he got lucky.....and got off cheap. If that set came off while he was running down he could've killed that family in the mini van next to him. get down on one knee and CHECK THOSE LUGS BY HAND it only takes 10 seconds In addition,He has NO ONE to blame but himself, simple as that. I GUUAURRUNTEEE you he will do his pre-trips now

 

If the wheels weren't tight to begin with. They would have fallen off right away or shortly there after. NOT 3 months down the road. Op sad 8 - 10k miles a month. That would be 24 - 30k miles later.

I've had 2 or 3 lugs come off after tire work. And i've made the trip back to yard. Simply because there's no shops for trucks or nuts to be had along the trip. Luckily the others stayed tight. And i had a wrench big enough to check on them during the trip. Had one scale give me a verbal warning on inspection becuase of a loose nut so i pack a wrench.

There's also the possibility of a vibration that caused the nuts to come loose. I've had that happen once, because of mud buildup inside the rim causing a tire out of balance sympton. But it was caught before the tires fell off.