I'm mad as hell !!!
I'm mad as hell !!!
Look at what some joker did to me on the freeway. !#$%^*%$ should have put a cover on the #%&$%*#! truck.
Look at what some joker did to me on the freeway. !#$%^*%$ should have put a cover on the #%&$%*#! truck.
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... too bad you never got a chance to drive the Al-Can Highway up to Tok before it was paved!
... that's nothing at all![:D]
I took 11 significant hits on my '70 Land Cruiser windshield, up and back![xx(]0 -
I drove the Alaska highway. In fact I flew off of it. We got a flight into the wilderness of BC with a bush pilot. He lived right on the Alaska highway. He used the Alaska highway for an airstrip. 0 -
Get the license #? 0 -
If you don't have a crack in your windshield and you are in
Wyoming/ Idaho / Montana / Alaska
what are you ?
A Tourist0 -
allen griggs, I drove it for the first time in 1974. They were still using those 'armored' semi's, day and night, all summer long that flew along at 70+ Mph, where they could - time was money and they only had a three month driving season. In the Yukon, you could see them coming for miles - or at least the clouds of dust they always had trailing them! Passing an oncoming semi was like passing a freight train!
Believe it or not, the worst rock throwers were VW bugs! There were quite a few out there roaring along at about 60 - Baja Kits were very popular at the time - and their bigger rear tires threw rocks to almost the perfect height to score a direct windshield hit every time they roared by in the opposite direction. Whenever we saw one of those little devils headed our way we'd pull way off to the side - into the brush sometimes - until they had past![:D]0 -
Got a deal w/ my insurance agent- one new windshield a year for my F 150. Gravel roads around here. Drove the Alaskan Highway in 71 in a Ford Pinto- had plastic bubble guards over headlights- and one rock thru windshield. Trip from Fairbanks to Virginia. That was memorable! 0 -
If the missile that did the damage fell off a truck and hit your vehicle, it is a motor vehicle crash, and reportable, and the driver/owner of the truck is liable for the damage. If the missile was laying in the roadway and was thrown up by a tire, it is a common road hazard and not reportable, and you are liable for the damage. 0 -
That was in '73 when I drove on the Alaska highway. Didn't get all the way to Alaska though, just to northern BC.
I remember seeing bumper stickers:
"I Drove the Alaska Highway
Both Ways, Dammit!"0 -
Well, I drove both ways and loved it - always planned on doing it again ... sadly, never did.
We had InterProvincial fishing licenses and fished both ways - almost didn't come home![:D]0 -
dpmule, or Maine.
I've always had cracked or chipped windshields covered by insurance under the Comprehensive coverage minus the deductable. Except for one time a couple rocks came off a dump truck and the construction company paid for the windshield and fixing the dent in the hood.0 -
I get tickled at the gravel/rock haulers who have these signs on the back of their trailers stating they are not responsible for damage to your vehicle.
It is a bluff.
It is a LIE.
I hate filing crash reports, but if the load isn't securely tarped, and some of it falls off and damages another vehicle, it doesn't hurt my feelings a bit to put a MVA on the driver's record, CDL be hanged.0 -
quote:Originally posted by nunn
I get tickled at the gravel/rock haulers who have these signs on the back of their trailers stating they are not responsible for damage to your vehicle.
It is a bluff.
It is a LIE.
I hate filing crash reports, but if the load isn't securely tarped, and some of it falls off and damages another vehicle, it doesn't hurt my feelings a bit to put a MVA on the driver's record, CDL be hanged.
I live and worked in a mining/trucking community, and dump truck
drivers must have their loads tarped. Many don't, and have to pay..
either fines and/or damages.0 -
Nunn, you may be right on the law in Texas but not so here in Tennessee. In Tennessee you must get the offending truck driver to admit in writing that the rock came from the tires or from his truck bed for him to be liable. If he says that it did not, your vehicle will have to be repaired by your insurance company or by you. I know because I had this happen to me. A TDOT truck threw a rock which put a hole in the corner of my windshield. I flashed my lights at him and he stopped. He appologized and gave me a number to call and we went our way. Shortened story was the State Board at TDOT handles their own cases and they turned down my request saying that the driver "thought" he was at fault but they had no proof that the rock came from his truck so my request was denied. I talked to my insurance company who said I really had no recourse except that they would have to fix it but it would be a countable accident on my record. By the way, Tennessee is supposed to have a law requiring a truck to have a cover over the truck bed when it is carrying certain types of loads, but the state vehicles are exempt from those laws. It is also ignored by both the truckers and the law enforcement personnel. By the way, we have a lot of trucks(rocks trucks, asphalt truck, etc. )running around with signs on the back stating that you MUST stay 100 or 200 feet behind them. Its just part of the territory and you learn to live with it. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by nunn
I get tickled at the gravel/rock haulers who have these signs on the back of their trailers stating they are not responsible for damage to your vehicle.
It is a bluff.
It is a LIE.
I hate filing crash reports, but if the load isn't securely tarped, and some of it falls off and damages another vehicle, it doesn't hurt my feelings a bit to put a MVA on the driver's record, CDL be hanged.
I for one can appreciate your concern on this one. While driving north on an interstate in the left lane, my windshield met with a typical red brick doing atypical things, like rotating at high rpms and traveling at about 65 mph. It had fallen off a semi truck's flat bed. Luckily for me, my Alfa Romeo coupe had a very slanted windshield as it met the rising brick which was on its first bounce off the highway. Consequently all that happened was seeing a brick coming straight at my face and then a hellacious thump as it met the glass.0 -
quote:Originally posted by nunn
If the missile that did the damage fell off a truck and hit your vehicle, it is a motor vehicle crash, and reportable, and the driver/owner of the truck is liable for the damage. If the missile was laying in the roadway and was thrown up by a tire, it is a common road hazard and not reportable, and you are liable for the damage.
It was one of those giant cylinder things that mix the concrete. A chunk fell and hit the windshield. I almost stoped my wal Arse mart for a change of pants. I'm trying to file the claim now.0
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