Truck tires should have run flats

T ruck tires, like ordinary passenger vehicle tires, are susceptible to punctures while the vehicle is on the road. Yet unlike passenger vehicle tires, truck tires are not fitted with run flats. It should be standard practice that run flat tires must be fitted onto truck tires as the same benefits that result from passenger vehicles with run flat tires would be useful on trucks as well.   Granted, the mechanical structure of a truck is markedly different to that of a passenger vehicle. For instance, a truck is typically fitted with tires whose material can generally withstand damage, and given how big trucks are in the first place, this makes perfect sense. Furthermore, many of the larger trucks, such as commercial trucks, have two or even three tires fitted with one next to the other. This means that when one tire is damaged, there is still another or two to keep the vehicle going. However, even with all this a truck is not impervious to experiencing damage on most of the tires all at once, or having damage on only a few tires but that damage rendering the vehicle immobile.   As such, run flat tires should be fitted on truck tires so that when one or more of the truck tires get damaged, the vehicle is still able to keep going until it at least reaches a filling station or its final destination.