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Synfulz

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I was driving on the beltway in DC one time. I was just behind a semi about 50 feet when one of his tires exploded. Holy!@#$%^&*. Scared the living daylights out of me.
 

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A tanker on highway, to my right, blew a left rear tire as I was passing. Found out part of the tire cracked my FORD grill. Not enough to replace, it is a truck afterall.
 

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Wheel spacers and high offset wheels....hmm, wonder what the failure was ?

One of the reasons I am cautious around heavily modified trucks.
I read that under the video when I saw it on Facebook earlier. They blamed a wheel spacer.


When I was a kid we were driving home for visiting family an a flatbed load of tires started coming off right in front of us. We dodged two an I remember seeing them rolling onto the opposite bound lanes of traffic.
 

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Christ.. Did they even survive that? Roof landings are horrific...

Also, another reason wheel spacers are not perfectly safe like these flat billed hat wearing d heads keep claiming. I avoid trucks with wheel spacers for this reason.
 

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I long ago noticed that interstate traffic clumps up unless it is really congested.

I either slow down or speed up to get between the clumps. Speed isn't dangerous. But proximity and speed is deadly. As are high differential speeds.

Recently I have begun traveling at night on I-95 for just this reason. The stress levels are much lower.
 
 








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