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TL;DR: On 18 July, an articulated lorry’s inner trailer tyre blew out unnoticed on the A6 near Schwäbisch Hall, heading towards Nuremberg. The driver only found out at a stop.

TL;DR: On 17 July, a Polish articulated lorry driver on the A2 near Frankfurt (Oder), heading towards the Polish border, reported a knocking sound from a trailer wheel. On-site diagnosis:

A Bulgarian international haulier was heading south on the A5 motorway near Müllheim, in South Baden, not far from the French border, when the driver noticed smoke coming from behind

TL;DR: On 14 July, the EBS (electronic braking system) on an articulated lorry threw a fault on the A4 near Bad Hersfeld, direction Kirchheim. At 90 km/h the brakes dropped

TL;DR: A curtainsider trailer running at roughly 40 tonnes gross combination weight suffered a rear-axle tyre blowout on the A7 near Soltau, on the Lüneburg Heath, heading towards Hamburg. Our

TL;DR: On 14 July, during daylight hours on the A61 near Meckenheim, direction Koblenz, the tread of a retreaded 315/80 R22.5 tyre separated from the carcass on the drive axle

A trailer tyre blowout does more than strand a lorry on the hard shoulder. On 14 July, a curtainsider articulated lorry lost a rear trailer tyre on the A31 near

TL;DR: On 14 July, a coach bus caught fire in the engine bay on the A3 near Montabaur (Westerwald, direction Cologne). The fire brigade extinguished the blaze, all passengers were

TL;DR: On 13 July, an articulated lorry on the A9 near Hof, Upper Franconia, called our dispatch at 09:10 with a trailer tyre destroyed from the inside. The cause wasn’t