Vitalux
18th October 2013, 02:42
A few years ago I use to hear a lot of stories about truck tires flying off trucks and fatally injuring other motorist.
I was moved that one man thought of a cheep solution and ended up being able to make a difference in the world.
It must be a good night sleep this man must have, knowing that he has made the world a bit more safer for both you, and I to play in.
:playball:
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/images/stories/transportation/tire_safety_locks.jpg
A retired 65-year-old businessman set his mind on trying to invent something useful. He did just that after a "Eureka" moment on the highway inspired a solution to the problem of deadly runaway truck tires.
"What he came up with was the Zafety Lug Lock," reports Macleans in Canada. "A small piece of plastic links two bolts on a truck’s wheels, effectively freezing them in place."
Four years later, nearly one million of Jaime Hogge's two-dollar plastic locks are on the road.
This year, the Zafety Lug Lock won Canada’s most prestigious innovation award, the Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award.
(READ the story, w/ Jamie's photo, at Macleans (http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/09/26/nuts-for-truck-safety/))
I was moved that one man thought of a cheep solution and ended up being able to make a difference in the world.
It must be a good night sleep this man must have, knowing that he has made the world a bit more safer for both you, and I to play in.
:playball:
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/images/stories/transportation/tire_safety_locks.jpg
A retired 65-year-old businessman set his mind on trying to invent something useful. He did just that after a "Eureka" moment on the highway inspired a solution to the problem of deadly runaway truck tires.
"What he came up with was the Zafety Lug Lock," reports Macleans in Canada. "A small piece of plastic links two bolts on a truck’s wheels, effectively freezing them in place."
Four years later, nearly one million of Jaime Hogge's two-dollar plastic locks are on the road.
This year, the Zafety Lug Lock won Canada’s most prestigious innovation award, the Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award.
(READ the story, w/ Jamie's photo, at Macleans (http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/09/26/nuts-for-truck-safety/))