It's just a fact most so called truck drivers know how to do is hold the wheel that's all. I had to stop the other day in little rock and get a tire fixed. There was a truck setting there I asked the guy who was doing the work on my truck how long he had be setting there. he said with a laugh that he had to be towed in. The guy had ran on a flat for so long he blew out one of the air bags even after that he still drove on at speed of course the tire got hot and went a fire. I have moved very slow SLOW down the shoulder will a flat. How do u not hear a tire thumping and even that any driver should fell the truck fall win u blew out a air bag!!!!
True story:
A bunch of years ago when I was about 18, on a nice summer night, shortly after dark, I was sitting at home. I had the front door open, and I heard this sound. It sounded like somebody was dragging a metal trash can up the street. It got louder & louder, then it stopped right in front of my house. Then I heard a car door.
Knock at the door, .. it was my friend Eric.
He says "Dude something's seriously ****ed up with the Granada" (1979 Ford Granada, his first car)
I says "what's it doing?"
He says "the front end's shaking & it's hard to steer. I can barely keep it on the road, and when you get up around 70 mph it gets even worse, I think it's a broken strut or something."
I says "Did you hit something? How long's it been doing that?"
He says "I didn't hit nothing, .. it's just been doing that since I left home. I went to Consumers & then back here".
(He lived in Romeoville, IL. Consumers was the liquor store our 17 yr old friend Charlie worked at as a stock-boy, and he would sneak bottles of Rumplemints & Dr. McGillicuddy's out the back door. The liquor store was in the middle of Joliet, about 15 miles away, and my house was 3 miles from his, a total of about 27 miles)
So we go out there with a flashlight & I looked at the front right wheel & there wasn't a single scrap of rubber left on it at all. Not even a bead. The rim was worn down so the brake rotor was almost on the ground, and it was all banged up & looked like a Torx screwdriver bit. The body metal was dented right behind the wheel & there were black marks all over the 1/4-panel from the rubber slapping it.
I hit the ground, .. I couldn't take it. I ended up having to take a couple ibuprophen cuz I was laughing so hard I gave myself a headache. Eric wasn't stupid, .. but when it comes to everyday common sense, he was an idiot.
The next day I got on my motorcycle & followed the scratches in the pavement for about 6 miles until I lost them because I couldn't keep riding on the wrong side of the street. (oncoming traffic)
There HAD to have been a continuous shower of sparks shooting off that rim. I still get a good laugh about it when I remember it.
Eric died in 2010. He killed his pancreas with alcohol & vicodin. He will be missed. I think I'll plug in my 500 GB external hard drive & watch some of his drunk videos now.
the turn signal means swifty is having a hard time driving his hot rod. he don't want to risk letting taking his hands off the wheel to show he was thankful.