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When EEC and EMS warnings light up together on the dash and the engine cuts its own power without warning, that’s not a random electronics glitch. The exhaust after-treatment system

When a trailer tyre gets cut open on a kerb during an unloading manoeuvre, the driver rarely has time to worry about anything beyond the dock slot he is about

Trailer tyre blowout on a MAN TGX combination on the A19 near Rostock: mobile tyre service for trucks and commercial vehicles from 7.5 t, back on the road in 1

A tyre doesn’t usually explode without warning. It talks first — a vibration through the cab floor, a low hum that gets louder with speed, a pull to one side

A destroyed wheel on the steer axle is not a job for a tyre van. When the hub itself is damaged or the axle geometry is thrown out, a semi

A blown tyre just before two in the morning is a different job from the same failure at three in the afternoon. On the motorway it is dark, most tyre

A tyre blowout in broad daylight is bad enough. The same event at dusk, minutes before the last light drains out of the sky, is a different animal entirely. Visibility

A dual tyre on a semi-trailer does not fail quietly. On the afternoon of 14 August, a Polish tractor unit hauling a curtainside trailer was running south on the A45

A tyre failure on the drive axle of an articulated lorry is never a minor inconvenience. On the hard shoulder of a busy motorway, with lorries thundering past at 80