Any trucker nuts in here?

[DUCAUDI]

I think if it's torqued correctly and re-torqued shortly afterwards it's no more likely on an HGV than on a car. I think it's more to do with the fact of the amount of damage a truck tyre could do if it came loose compared to a car tyre. Someone sent me a clip on WhatsApp I think it was in India, a truck tyre came loose on a motorway on the opposite carriageway, bounded over the central reservation, hit a motorcyclist and took his head CLEAN off. I wouldn't much fancy running into a runaway truck wheel and tyre have you seen the size of those things? A car tyre would probably seriously injure someone whereas a truck tyre more likely to kill. Also car drivers wouldn't put up with goofy yellow clips on their wheel nuts whereas truckers couldn't care less.

Incidentally those yellow clips aren't compulsory on trucks.
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[DUCAUDI]

Aha!
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[wr6133]

[The Artist]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Riejufixing]

[DUCAUDI]

Someone my wife knows was killed by a cement mixer falling from the back of a Transit pickup as it went round a corner. The cement mixer was not secured properly. Just one of those freak accidents you don't even imagine would happen when you sling a cement mixer on the back of a truck... what if?
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2021 Honda CMX500 Rebel S

[DUCAUDI]

I also remember hearing about a young lad who was a mobile tyre fitter had gone to a farm near here to change a tyre on a tractor and got killed by the tyre coming off under pressure as he had grossly overinflated it. Which is strange as I understand tractor tyres are supposed to be relatively low pressure whereas truck tyres can be in excess of 120psi. Dunno about the tractor tyres but would hazard a guess under 30psi so seems strange that the kiddie managed to kill himself, maybe left the pump on and forgot about it
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2023 DucAudi Mehrstraße V4 Hechte Gipfel - "Objectively the best motorcycle ever produced" - "You can have any colour, as long as it's red"
2021 Honda CMX500 Rebel S

[recman]

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[pepperami]

[BigTim]

how about this one?
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[DUCAUDI]

I saw Spiderman FIRST but titties a fraction of a second later.
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2023 DucAudi Mehrstraße V4 Hechte Gipfel - "Objectively the best motorcycle ever produced" - "You can have any colour, as long as it's red"
2021 Honda CMX500 Rebel S

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[Polarbear]

[Riejufixing]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Polarbear]

[MCN]

[Poseidon]

[hellkat]

Not even I'm that desperate
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[MCN]

[Poseidon]

[hellkat]

Oh! So there is


The power of suggestion, eh?

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