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TL;DR: The sidewall of every lorry tyre carries a size code (e.g. 315/80 R22.5), a Load Index (e.g. 156/150), a speed symbol, a DOT date code, an M+S or 3PMSF

Quick summary: On 9 July, the driver of an articulated lorry reported a hissing sound from the air brake system at a service area on the A45 near Wetzlar, Hesse.

TL;DR: At around 5:40am on 1 July, a tyre (315/80 R22.5) blew out on a partially loaded Volvo milk tanker on a narrow village street in the Cloppenburg district, Lower

TL;DR: On 26 May, a DAF XF articulated lorry overheated in stationary traffic on the A5 near Bad Homburg, at the Frankfurt interchange, and dropped into limp-home mode. Our team

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