As far as convenience goes I know what your talking about just throwing the spare in the bed, I did it for years myself. I say did because I rarely do it anymore. Granted I have the occasional relapse and throw something in and get in a hurry and forget to tie it off, but I do my best to not forget. This mind set cam,e about after being involved in an accident where a guy crossed the center line and hit me head on. Had his car not gotten side ways at the last minute and turned some of the collison force into also pulling both of us the side ways it would have been alot worse. As it was it pushed the front end of my '87 F150 back car enough to buckle the floor pans, and put the passanger door of his car nearly to the center console.
That said, at the time I had a spare tire, and a couple of plastic antifreeze jugs full of water in the back. The force of the collision caused the spare to jump out of the bed and travel over 100 yards away from where the two vehicles stopped. All of the plastic jugs had ruptured, but not before hitting the front of the bed hard enough to bend it until it hit the back of the cab.
Fron that point on I will still haul stuff in my truck, that's what it's designed for, but unless it's something that isn't likely to get out of the bed, and will more than likely be contained within the bed in an accident, (like the water jugs) I try not to haul anything that I don't tie down....especially a tire. The way I see it with the force it took to make that spare tire go nearly 100 yards it could have easily come through the back glass of the cab and took my head off. Heck, I guess the jugs could have too given the force they expended to bend the front of the bed, but I KNOW the tire could have. Thing is I like my head being attached right where it is......even though my wife would sometimes have me believe she thinks I've got it stuck somewhere else....LOL
Seriously, if you throw anything heavy, be it a tire, or anything else in the bed of a truck, tie it down. I know we all get in a hurry and become forgetful, but better to take a minute or two to secure a load than to only have a split second to wish you did when someone else hits you and you wind up injured or dead.....
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