OT-Where Do All The Nails In The Roads Come From

F-350 · Dec 28, 2012

It seems like I've had way too many flat tires this year..Every one of them has been from a nail..I just cant believe that many nails are lost on our nations roads...At $12.50 a tire to fix them its getting expensive..My tire place even jokes that I keep them in business.

When I buy nails I never put them in a truck bed..I always keep them in them in the cab with me..

magpiene · Dec 28, 2012

Rumor is you made somone mad.... Now they drive around ahead of you dropping nails....

Walt Davies · Dec 28, 2012

You must live in or near a construction zone. Check the nails not many people use loose nails anymore then check out your local places that sell these nails you might just find the guy who is spreading them then take him to small claims court. It's not how much you get but how it cost him to take the day off.
Walt

jackinok · Dec 28, 2012

I know where they come from here,two tornadoes in the last two years and everyone hauling off debris and trash. but i know what you mean about folks hauling nails ,i have a nephew that goes all over the country with his construction buisness. he hauls a trailer load of nails and screws all the time and when the boxes fall apart he just scatters them everywhere.

JD PHIL · Dec 28, 2012

Around my place the nails & screws fall out of the amish wagons and lots of flats from horseshoe nails, had 3 flats on the same car in 2 weeks all 3 had horseshoe nails. Thats where ours come from.

old · Dec 28, 2012

Think about all the nails people buy as lumber yards etc. They get put in a paper bag that gets thrown in the bed of a pick up tuck then drove who knows where for miles and a few work there way out and into the bed then as time goes by and the truck hits a bump there goes the nail. Multiply that but say 100 million truck just in one state. Then there are the storms that blow down buildings and that in turn blows boards with nails all over and those nails go all over and well you get the idea

MSS3020 · Dec 28, 2012

I've come to the conclusion that I get them right after the road maintainer goes through and digs all the crap from the sides and spreads across the road. My repairs are up to 17.50 per plug/patch. I plug most of the ones I can but if it slow leaks or I cant get it done then I have to go in..

Mike M · Dec 28, 2012

Local tire shop drumming up business ?

I pulled a horse shoe nail out of the wifes tire. Lots of amish here.

bkzap · Dec 28, 2012

Just last week I went shopping just to get my last christmas gift. As I drove threw this parking lot I saw a five gallon container just seting out in the parking lot. I stop and looked to see what it was and threre it was a bucket full of big 5" nails just waiting for a person like you to hit this bucket. I felt sorry for a person like this so I picked it up and put it in my truck. Why because I pictured people could take it and throw it all over the parking lot. Hey I clean up after lazy people it pays my bills besides farming does not pay any more where I live. Your welcome from bkzap

Goose · Dec 28, 2012

Don't know where they come from, but my wife sure finds a lot.

I can go several years without having a flat tire, and all my wife has to do is look at a car and the tires start going down.

buickanddeere · Dec 28, 2012

Does your Mrs when driving drift off the pavement and onto the gravel shoulder more often than you do?

da.bees · Dec 28, 2012

If you get more than your share of flats ask yourself if you are the type that pulls onto the shoulder when idiots ride your bumper. It's not very clear while driving but walking along the shoulder it has a lot of junk lieing on the shoulder. If I am going extra slow or towing something that blocks driver's view,I move over,otherwise I will not take the shoulder.

MI AC Parsons · Dec 28, 2012

Contractors...we have 2 sign trucks and I checked them a month ago and guys are really careless about removing screws from signs and throwing them in the bed. They bounce down the road literally spewing them. Had them clean them up and don't want to see that anymore. I've had 2 flats from our own parking areas. If we do it I'll bet a lot more do it.

Jim in Ma. · Dec 28, 2012

Not an amswer but - I keep a plug kit,12 volt compresser in the tool box in both trucks. I
just fix it and move on.

Ellis Kinney · Dec 28, 2012

I taught school for 30 years. Kids would prop roofing nails under our tires. I checked my tires every day before I left school. Ellis

Stephen Newell · Dec 28, 2012

Sometime pay attention to how people haul junk in their trucks and trailers. Your very lucky to only get nails in your tires. Another day you might get a piece of pipe through your windshield. I saw a guy one time hauling a welder on casters on a stake bed truck without so much as a piece of yarn holding it in. The thing was rolling all over the place and would slam into the cab every time he came to a stop. Then he just kept going.

Spook · Dec 28, 2012

Contractors - I got a flat one time following a neighbor down the road. I saw some crap fall off his truck, just little stuff, I had a flat tire only a minute later.

da.bees · Dec 28, 2012

(quoted from post at 18:37:23 12/28/12) I taught school for 30 years. Kids would prop roofing nails under our tires. I checked my tires every day before I left school. Ellis

That's better than when they put them in teacher's chair. :shock:

bill mart · Dec 28, 2012

Old, little high on your vehicle estimate. Found this on the web:

According to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics for 2009 there are 254,212,610 registered passenger vehicles. Of these, 193,979,654 were classified as "Light duty vehicle, short wheel base, while another 40,488,025 were listed as "Light duty vehicle, long wheel base." Yet another 8,356,097 were classified as vehicles with 2 axles and 6 tires and 2,617,118 were classified as "Truck, combination." There were approximately 7,929,724 motorcycles in the US in 2009. [5

RBnSC · Dec 28, 2012

That is true, lots of stuff in medians and shoulders. Unbelievable amount of screws and nails.
Ron

just another old geezer · Dec 28, 2012

around here, most of the nails on the road are throw offs from the Amish horses.

Dick2 · Dec 28, 2012

In AZ, most of the nails on the highways come when the contractors let illegals drive their trucks. Seems the illegals never tied anything down on the truck beds back in their home country - so they don't tie cargo down here either. Saw a big box of nails fall off a flatbed ahead of us one morning on the way to work. Nails flew everywhere; there was no place to try to dodge them so I just drove on through. I didn't get a flat, but I watched in the mirror as vehicles were pulling off the road with flats tires. Driver of the truck never stopped.

I have no idea why we didn't get a flat; not many others got through like we did. I've seen gobs of nails on the road after that incident, but fortunately traffic had swept a clear lane by the time we came by.

Dave in GA · Dec 28, 2012

Remember the tire commercial on TV a number of years ago where a vehicle was driving over a long row of sharp axe blades standing up? To prove how unstoppable their tires were. Now it just takes 1 roofing nail to take you out of action.

Goose · Dec 28, 2012

Actually, she drives right down the tracks. I'm the one who wanders around on the road looking for the smoothest spot.

old · Dec 28, 2012

Oh well just trying to get the idea out there not start a big deal out of it LOL

Billy Shafer · Dec 28, 2012

I don't know where they come from. But I found four on the way home from the tire store one day.I think it is a plot by the tire stores to sell tires.

Royse · Dec 28, 2012

Don't try to out run the police and they won't use the stop sticks! LOL
Seems I get them more with new tires.
Like the better tread picks them up and holds them.

2x4 · Dec 29, 2012

local kids hauling junk. They tore down an old building & loaded 10 ft. long roofing tin full of nails in 6 ft. S 10 bed & flew down the bumpy gravel road to get rich. Prolly got $10 out of it. Caused over dozen flat tires in the next week, as car after car found the nails. For their beer money they prolly caused $550 in damages. Dumb.

bill mart · Dec 29, 2012

I didnt know the total until I looked it up. Bill

old · Dec 29, 2012

I just took a guess going by the figure I heard about WI deer hunters being 600,000 sold tags last year and figuring that would be 600,000 pick up truck or close just for the hunters and then you have the farmers who do not hunt and the wannabes from the city who have trucks

Hal/Eastern WA · Dec 29, 2012

I think all of the flat tires my road vehicles have had over the last 20 years have been caused by screws rather than nails. Usually drywall screws and usually right in the tread.

It irritates me to see someone going down the road with a bunch of unsecured construction debris on their trailer or the back of their pickup. And they never go back to pick up what falls off. At least where I live, I bet that is where most of the nails and screws on the roads come from.

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