HUGE figgen bummer

[Longhorn Man]

Heading into work yesterday, pull out of the gas station lot, turn on the stereo, and as soon as I do that, i feel a metal to metal grind through the steering wheel, and hear this gawd awfull squeel. Talk about p!ssed.... I pull over and look at it, pop the bearing cover off look at the dust that used to be outer bearings. jack it up and flop the whhell back and forth and pretty much figure the hub is junk. limped it to the shop (about 4 more miles) at a record setting low rate of speed (slow is always a record for me) and on the way, I'm at a light and this guy beside me in a turbo cummings dodge shuts off his engine and yealls to me asking about the price (got a big @ss for sale sign in the back window) and asks for the phone number. Cool, another bite.
So I go a little further, and pull into a stop and rob lot to look at it again and make sure it'll make it since the next road has no practicle place to pull over...about a 2 mile streach in an industrial area. I hop out, and bigger than poop, there is Mr Cummins... (turns out after 5 min of looking, he wants it...just needs to pry the cash out of the wife's hands...his words, not mine)
I make it to work, pull the wheel and hub off, the spindle is fine, and to clean it up a bit, but the hib is in fact junk....but have you ever seen a bearing race do this? between the boss's 35 yrs, shop foreman's 30 years, and a couple 20 year mechainics...adds up to over 100 years experiance, and NONE of them have ever seen this happen in a light duty aplication...esp with no warning signs.
I was so p!ssed I was ready to toss this sucker (the truck...not the hub) into the creek behind the shop.
No joke...I had NO signs at all untill moments before it happened. no rumbling, no slop...nothing.
just as it all looks good, it al goes into the crapper.
I guess it coulda been worse, I coulda lost the spindle and totalled the truck.