Kathy and I were headed down to Dania Beach to visit Jon and Kaitie and the girls. We were pulling the camper south on I95 and were being passed by a semi with a shipping container on the trailer. When the trailer tires were about even with the drivers door the outer trailer dually on the semi exploded! Kathy and I felt the concussion from the explosion. We both jumped and just about screamed. There was rubber flying from the exploded tire and as he pulled in front of us the inner dually tire exploded on the trailer. We followed him till he got off at an exit to see how much damage there was to the side of our truck. When the driver pulled over and came up to us he apologized for what had happened. He said the container was way overloaded! I told him it scared the crap out of us. My ears were still ringing! We both inspected the side of the truck and found no damage to our truck. When we got to the next rest area I noticed this chunk of rubber in the bed of the truck between the fuel tank and the 5th wheel hitch. We don't know how we didn't get any damage to the truck. It was very scary.
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