A shaking steering wheel is one of those warning signs that's easy to explain away, thinking it might just be a bad road, weird alignment, or that thing some cars do when you’re driving fast on the highway.

But just because you think you know what’s going on with it doesn’t mean you should ignore it. This truck owner learned that the hard way when what he hoped was a fixable issue turned nearly catastrophic.

Pop Goes The Wheel

In a viral video with more than 1.1 million views, content creator Patty (@478.pattyy) shared that he was driving on the interstate when he started feeling the wheel shake.

"Something happened while I was on the interstate. My wheel [shakes] now, and when I brake, it's like kinda hard to—" and then his sentence cuts off.