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In short: On 10 April, the curtain tarpaulin of a semi-trailer tore near the headboard at a rest area off the A44 near Werl, North Rhine-Westphalia. Rain was forecast, the

A full set of six truck tyres does not go on the way a car tyre does. On 18 March, in our own workshop near Essen in the Ruhr area,

A Volvo tractor unit refused to start on a wet, cold hard shoulder of the A39 near Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, early on 12 February. The call reached LKWHelp24 dispatch at

TL;DR: On 15 August 2026, a professional driver found a nail lodged in the tread of a 295/80 R22.5 tyre during his morning pre-trip inspection on a cobbled yard near

TL;DR: On 15 August 2026, the gearbox on a concrete mixer truck failed completely at a concrete batching plant near Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg. The 8-cubic-metre drum vehicle could no longer move

The speed rating Q stands for a maximum permitted speed of 160 km/h (99 mph). For trucks over 7.5 t, semi-trailers, trailers and buses, this rating is a safety-relevant value

TL;DR: On 14 August, a French haulier reported a semi-truck at its depot near Saarbrücken with a tyre slowly losing pressure. The Continental 315/80 R22.5 tyre had no puncture at

Every tyre has a maximum load limit. That number is printed on the tyre sidewall and in the vehicle registration document. Ignore it, and you risk a blowout, downtime and

If you drive a truck over 7.5 t, you need to know the axle load stated in the vehicle registration document. The permissible axle load is recorded in the registration