Should be illegal on any street legal vehicle. I’ve already dodged two today that were lying in the middle of I-80 and I’ve been driving for less than 30 minutes.
Abrignac wrote:
100% agree. Especially for the mother effing semi trucks. Carrying 80k pounds of sheit on retreads? Just.... NO.
It's wrong, it's un-fkn-safe... and it's a hazard to other drivers. And when the other driver hits that sheit... the trucker is usually long gone and the poor driver is stuck with the bill.
[sarcasm]
Crappy new tires do disintegrate and I think there may be a lot more good retreads rolling down the highways than bad, but maybe someone in the trucking industry can comment?
Gene363 wrote:
See the OP.
I was thinking of someone that maintains a fleet of trucks, especially the tires or buys tires for commercial vehicles. I know retreaded tires are commonly used with success for off-road equipment so it is not necessarily an entirely bad idea there, but have no idea for commercial vehicles.
They're not as good as a new tire, and it's just cutting corners. Take into account that semi's are toting thousands of pounds worth of goods... on a sheit tire???
C'mon, man... not a good idea AT ALL.
Retreads are a BAD idea. Period.
MACS wrote:
Not to be argumentative, 😂* but Google says 44% of semis roll on retreads. Recycling is good, maybe the standards for retreading should be increased, and truck tire inspections more stringent. Shipping costs money and operators are going to cut costs, some right down into safety margins.
* As I said, I don't have personal knowledge about the trucking industry. I have spent a lot of time on the highway and there are tire treads that have been thrown off, but is it really that often compared to the number of trucks on the road and the miles they rack up every day?
And when your insurance company asks who they should go after for the damages? What'cha gonna say? Um... that truck, um... that I didn't quite get the plate of... on such and such highway?
Yup... trucker gives no f---s. Company gives even less.
It's a fucking BAD idea. Retreads should be banned.
OTOH, I've had miscelanious chunks of steel destroy tires and a family member had a pipe or bar fly through their windshirld and out the back window of a station wagon. Luckely, it was centered and missed both of them.
I like to know all the facts befor outlawing something and I'm not convinced all retreads are bad. I've had factoy tires come apart and in the poor days put many miles on retreaded tires.
Then I would dodge retreads(as the well known "snub whitey" handle) on the PA turnpike In green non discript Buicks with no serial #'s snub nosed .38's filled with $100's of thousands of dollars in the trunk in old Samsonite suitcases in very low denominations that added up to big big money for the Democratic National committee from cleveburg, to Pittsburgh to Philadelphia warehouses.....from1982-86...
You guys cry like little girls on here ...
WaAAAaaa
Your all a bunch women's...
LMAO!
I cant's dodge rubber...
It may hurt me...
Waaaaa...
Cries Mac's the girly man...
Will work for trashed scratchers?
Take your meds, sheithead.
