I do check the date codes these days for all tires I buy. Fortunately, my most recent purchases the tires were no more than 2 and 3 months old. But how old should they be before allowing yourself to purchase? 6 months? a year? I don't think I'd go longer than 6 months.
It's great this story was redone. I saw the same clips and story when it was done two years ago. This is an update and I'm not surprised nothing has been done. We'll have to wait for some congressman to have a problem before they consider it important. Then since trailers break down and there isn't anyone to get hurt, no new legislation needed, right?
Tire failures create jobs; replacing tires, repairing damage, lots of work for tow and service centers. As usual, we hate too many laws, but the dollar clouds our minds, so nothing happens until the right persons lose their lives, THEN new laws occur that just make everyone angry that have to change the way they do things because they didn't have the safety sense to admit and do what's right.
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