Sign on Dump Truck---wrong!

[bigmike]

When I traveled alot, I used to communicate my potential draft with the truck drivers using a CB. Many of them would OK it and were cool with it. Obviously, I wouldn't do this with a dump truck.

I've had to replace my windshield 3 times. It was always covered under insurance. Right now, my current windshield has been hit several times but not enough to warrant a replacement.

 

[TallPaul]

My F150 is on it's fourth windshield since I got it in '99 over 110,000 miles. The Aerostar we got in '95 and have never had to replace the windshield in 120,000 miles. I must say I love the smell of the new sealer in the windshield.

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: TallPaul
I must say I love the smell of the new sealer in the windshield.


I bet you used to hang your head out the window when the parents filled up the car to sniff the fumes ...back in the day..

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: Nick R
Had an incident with one of these once. When we lived in maine oh about 3 years ago, we were driving behind one.... All of a sudden, the tailgate opens at the bottom, and BIG rocks, like 5-6" around and smaller start pouring onto the road. The driver is clueless, and doesn't stop. So for like 2 miles he's on and off dumping rocks. Luckily we were in the expedition, so We end up following him and blocking him in a driveway, while I call the police. He denied it at first, but after seeing it he just got sullen and said it wasn't his responsibility.



So what happened after just saying it was not his responsibility?

 

[xxch4osxx]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: xxch4osxx
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
I HATE dumptrucks, they are generally dirty (mud and rocks), drive faster and more aggressively than any other trucks on the road, and then are "not responsible"? Give me a break.

Dumptrucks should be limited to 55 MPH max, and while they can't really have liability for windshields (else everyone with a chip will blame the closest dumptrucks), they should be severely fined for going on the roads with dirt and rocks on their underside.
Lol Severely fined for having rocks on their underside? How do you plan on doing that? How is someone going to pick every stone off the underside of a gravel truck?


Lots of them have caked on mud, dirt, rocks on everything from the frame to the mudflaps. It is all washable, everyone has power washers, the rest isnt my problem. The trucks are a nuissance when they are completely caked in dirt and mud. Not all of them are dirty (and the clean ones do carry loads too). Guess which drop lots of stuff and which don't?

Couple that with excessive speed and you have a problem... And it IS their fault.
Sure it is all washable, but how are you going wash the entire truck 4 or 5 times a day? You will spend more time washing it then being on the road hauling.

 

[Nick R]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: Nick R
Had an incident with one of these once. When we lived in maine oh about 3 years ago, we were driving behind one.... All of a sudden, the tailgate opens at the bottom, and BIG rocks, like 5-6" around and smaller start pouring onto the road. The driver is clueless, and doesn't stop. So for like 2 miles he's on and off dumping rocks. Luckily we were in the expedition, so We end up following him and blocking him in a driveway, while I call the police. He denied it at first, but after seeing it he just got sullen and said it wasn't his responsibility.



So what happened after just saying it was not his responsibility?



Police came out and issued him several citations. Left after that, don't know if anything else happened.

 

[javacontour]

When I see that sign, I want to put up my own that says stay 500 feet ahead.

Instead of trying to control what I do Mr Truck Driver, take control and stay ahead.

That's the problem with America, everyone wants to tell others what to do, but no one wants to take action themselves.

When I see that sign, it's just another example of that in my mind.

PS, I realize the truck probably can't always be 500' ahead of me, that's not the point. The point is it's about controlling others instead of personal responsibility.

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: Nick R
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: Nick R
Had an incident with one of these once. When we lived in maine oh about 3 years ago, we were driving behind one.... All of a sudden, the tailgate opens at the bottom, and BIG rocks, like 5-6" around and smaller start pouring onto the road. The driver is clueless, and doesn't stop. So for like 2 miles he's on and off dumping rocks. Luckily we were in the expedition, so We end up following him and blocking him in a driveway, while I call the police. He denied it at first, but after seeing it he just got sullen and said it wasn't his responsibility.



So what happened after just saying it was not his responsibility?



Police came out and issued him several citations. Left after that, don't know if anything else happened.


I had the same thing happen to me several years back. Dump truck going down the highway with the tailgate flapping in the wind dropping pebble sized rock. I sped around and got next to the guy trying to tell him what was up but he started cursing at me!

 

[Shannow]

my brother fills his ashtray with small metal objects (like nuts, ball bearings, BBs etc.)

I won't tell you what he does when a truck peppers him with debris...but it's not hard to work out.

 

[GMBoy]

I hate it too how every bump in the road cause more junk to fall off or out of the trucks. The worst is the stupid driver that will ride along side the dump truck so nobody can pass and get away from dump truck's damaging effects. Oh and I had a dump truck crack my w/s and he was not responsible...insurance company even agreed.

 

[saberz]

They don't care. When I had my TC, wife and I were going down to her brothers wedding down at the shore. Merged onto the highway and this jerk in a dump truck is weeving traffic with a load of dirt/maneur and it is just flying all over the place and I get a boat load to hit my car. I flew up to the truck flashing/honking and he's ignoring me. Wife took down the number on the back and I pull over and inspect the damage on the car. Little nicks in the windshield and bumper/hood scratches and its all ocvered in wet/moist dirt.

Call up the company and they took my info and never called me back. Subsequent attempts to call them ended up being a "disconnected" number. No matter what number I found for them it was disconnected. Shady stuff.

 

[TallPaul]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Originally Posted By: TallPaul
I must say I love the smell of the new sealer in the windshield.


I bet you used to hang your head out the window when the parents filled up the car to sniff the fumes ...back in the day..

Wow! You are exactly right. Also sniffed gasoline fumes for 4 years as a pump jockey, so I guess If I don't get some nasty cancer and die early I am really blessed.

Oh as for haning you head out the window. MY dad always rolled the window down when ever a Harley passed by. I do the same to this day. My wife and kids think I am weird. But to paraphrase Frank Zappa, "I never set out to be weird. It was other people always saying I was werid."

 

[Chris142]

Not every rock that hits your glass fell out of a truck. Usually there is gravel or whatever in the road that can't be seen and the truck tires pick it up and throw it.

Now if you see stuff falling out of a truck thats a different story but to blame the truck because a rock hit your car is wrong.

I went through this several times when I was hauling powder cement. Some guy would chase me down and try to tell me that a rock fell out of my trailer and broke his glass.

I didn't haul rocks so the only possibility is that it was in the road and I ranover it which is not my fault

 

[Spazdog]

Originally Posted By: Chris142
Not every rock that hits your glass fell out of a truck. Usually there is gravel or whatever in the road that can't be seen and the truck tires pick it up and throw it.

Now if you see stuff falling out of a truck thats a different story but to blame the truck because a rock hit your car is wrong.

I went through this several times when I was hauling powder cement. Some guy would chase me down and try to tell me that a rock fell out of my trailer and broke his glass.

I didn't haul rocks so the only possibility is that it was in the road and I ranover it which is not my fault


That too.

The baseball size rock I referred to earlier definitely came out of the truck. I saw it happen.

But the Hydro-Frac drilling site salt water trucks? They enter the freeway at will with no regard for oncoming traffic, their dual tires packed with rocks from the drill pad site, no flaps, anti-sail or otherwise, and then fling the rocks off at dangerous velocities.

I respect truck drivers and give them thier due space and often even block off a lane off traffic for them then signal them with my lights so they can change lanes. But I genuinely fear the salt water truck drivers. They barrel headlong at you down a two lane blacktop right in the middle at 70+mph. Trailers must not have any baffles in them because they are all over the place. And you can't report them because the trailer is covered in two inches of mud and lime. There's no visible numbers (or lights)

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: xxch4osxx
Sure it is all washable, but how are you going wash the entire truck 4 or 5 times a day? You will spend more time washing it then being on the road hauling.


How is that any more my problem than dropping the rocks is the supposed "non-responsibility" of the driver? Frankly I dont care. Sucks for the driver, no excuse for disregarding others' safety.

If the trucks were limited to 55MPH and the right lane, it would be one thing... But these dumptrucks drive well over the limit, weave in and out, and pepper the cars behind with rocks. The driver is not taking best effort to protect the rest of the vehicles on the road. It is one thing if they did.

 

[brianl703]

I saw a city bus pull out in front of a dump truck this morning. The dump truck had to change lanes to avoid hitting the bus, which just stopped in the right lane to wait for a gap to get into the left lane. I reported the bus driver--this is typical behavior from that particular driver I've seen on more than one occasion.

 

[Spazdog]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
...If the trucks were limited to 55MPH and the right lane, it would be one thing... But these dumptrucks drive well over the limit, weave in and out, and pepper the cars behind with rocks. The driver is not taking best effort to protect the rest of the vehicles on the road. It is one thing if they did.


Trucks aren't allowed in the left lane here.

But guess where you'll find the previously mentioned hydro-frac salt water trucks?

 

[JHZR2]

Same on the road Im talking about... and where the dumptrucks are.

 

[Schmoe]

Those kind of trucks are everywhere here, especially in the oil and gas business. I've seen a few trucks that have that same B.S. hand painted on the back and always wondered if it is legit or not. My wife got showered with glass that fell off the back of a truck one time coming home of OKC. Really phissed her off, so she followed him until he came to a stop and ripped him a new butt. I told her that was the most stupidest thing she's ever done. Of course she was a lot younger then and hopefully she still ain't out there chasing those idiots down because I'll doubt she'll tell me. Now the thing about washing or rinsing the bottom of the truck off from coming out of a construction site is actually a federal law under the Clean Water Act. EVERY construction site larger than one acre must have a mud/debris removal area prior to the truck leaving the construction site written in their storm water pollution prevention plan. Believe me, I know. I go around here at work and bust companies that aren't doing this.

 

[xxch4osxx]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: xxch4osxx
Sure it is all washable, but how are you going wash the entire truck 4 or 5 times a day? You will spend more time washing it then being on the road hauling.


How is that any more my problem than dropping the rocks is the supposed "non-responsibility" of the driver? Frankly I dont care. Sucks for the driver, no excuse for disregarding others' safety.

If the trucks were limited to 55MPH and the right lane, it would be one thing... But these dumptrucks drive well over the limit, weave in and out, and pepper the cars behind with rocks. The driver is not taking best effort to protect the rest of the vehicles on the road. It is one thing if they did.
Id like to see how you would implement that everywhere, lol.