# Mass Trooper takes dangerous truck off road **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260 "2020-04-23T00:36:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SteveCBT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/stevecbt/32/3192_2.png) [@SteveCBT](https://community.cartalk.com/u/SteveCBT)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/1 "2020-04-23T00:36:24Z")
A trucker with missing/broken lugs was taken off the road by an alert police officer. The driver and his shop (if he has one) should have caught this. I understand the trucking industry is under a lot of pressure but simple basic safety/maintenance cannot be overlooked. > **[Mass. trooper stops truck with potentially deadly wheel: 'Stupid and...](https://www.foxnews.com/us/mass-trooper-stops-truck-potentially-deadly-wheel-stupid-frightening)** > > A Massachusetts state trooper pulled the brakes on a potentially deadly commercial truck last weekend as it rolled down the Massachusetts Turnpike on a half-loose wheel in West Stockbridge, police said. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/2 "2020-04-23T00:46:49Z")
Good for that trooper. As long as we’re talking trucks and lugnuts, what’s with the long spike lug nuts on the front wheels of semis these days? ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/3 "2020-04-23T00:48:35Z")
The driver should have caught that and refused to put it on the road before it was fixed therefore the driver share’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/4 "2020-04-23T00:53:19Z")
The same as thing as people with big SUV’s or big pickup’s with oversize tire’s an wheel’s say look at me see what I have that you don’t have. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/5 "2020-04-23T01:52:33Z")
My BIL used to say that a good driver can tell if any bolt is loose. Yeah there have been a couple accidents around here where the wheel has been bouncing down the freeway and into someone’s head. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/6 "2020-04-23T02:03:43Z")
A good driver will also check every thing before moving and aso do a walk around looking at thing’s every time he stop’s for any reason. ---
**Author:** ![shanonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@shanonia](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shanonia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/7 "2020-04-23T02:18:28Z")
I saw a consequence of one of those wheels coming apart: semi tractor and trailer went over a guardrail and a long ways down to a river embankment. I could see the jeans and boots of the guy in the passenger seat. Judging by the slow movements of the authorities on the scene, he was dead. Dunno if there were more dead in there. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/8 "2020-04-23T12:36:52Z")
Every once in awhile, a detached wheel works out OK: ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/9 "2020-04-23T13:02:09Z")
How could that truck be driven at all if that was a front tire as was indicated by the story? ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/10 "2020-04-23T13:18:52Z")
HOW do you not FEEL that inside the truck!!! Some drivers are a bit dead-in-the-derriere but come ON! At least do a walk-around! A dozen virtual donuts and coffee to that trooper! ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/b/6/b62207671b356106384c98729db564b444b71cf8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/11 "2020-04-23T15:57:37Z")
That wheel is on a trailer; ![trailer wheels](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/c/1/c139830f5a8147d9a331070b2351b8ee82423eae.jpeg) This is what the hub looks like; ![utility trailer axles](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/6/162d94c8a7e84b7dd799aecd37991722883acb1f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![C\_Hickman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@C\_Hickman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/C_Hickman)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mass-trooper-takes-dangerous-truck-off-road/163260/12 "2020-04-29T20:35:16Z")
The way this picture displays momentarily and then is gone, – that could be considered in the “stupid” category too.