Always check your tires!

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So I was driving down I65 going to lake kissimmee yesterday when I blew out the rear tire on my truck in the left lane. It is an act of God that despite what had been heavy commerical traffic all morning, it happened at an instant where I was inbetween two groups of trucks and not right amongst them. I almost regained control, it first tried to pull right, then left, somehow missed the rail ( a witness said he didn't know how), then finally swerved hard right straight across the right lane and onto the side of the road, flipping the boat off the trailer so that it landed upside down on the outboard and causing the truck to tip to a degree where it was inches from rolling over on the driver side door. We wre left facing the opposite direction that we had been traveling. All this with my dad in the shotgun seat and my dog riding on the armrest. Not a scratch on anyone.


Before the trip I had bought used tires to replace the old ones that had almost no tread, and one of those was the culprit. The irony was that I was doing my best to do the responsible thing, didnt really have the money for new tires and the used tires looked great, there was no telling, but sometimes it just happens. But to make sure, cause driving with a trailer is so dangerous, always check the tires at every stop. There are times when you may not be able to tell, but there are times you can and at the very least do that to avoid this type of thing.