Sad sight!
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From: Frederick MD
Sad sight!
About 2:30pm today, I was traveling down I-70 from New Market, Maryland going to Frederick, MD. I look on the side of the road and there is a hard top off a 65 or 66 vette laying upside down. I slow down and tell my son that is a hardtop off a vette. I go about 1/4 mile farther and on the side of the road is a truck carrying 3 cars and 1 is a 66 Sunfire Yellow vette! The driver is walking back to pick up the hardtop! I can only imagine how made the owner is going to be!!!
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From: Fisher, IL
I have a hard time blaming the driver for this one...
You'd have to assume every piece will fly off and tie each thing down individually. Wheels, hood, bumpers, mirrors, doors....
No way he knew the roof would fly off.
You'd have to assume every piece will fly off and tie each thing down individually. Wheels, hood, bumpers, mirrors, doors....
No way he knew the roof would fly off.
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From: East Haddam CT
I think it is the vehicle owners responsibility to make sure the item shipped (car) can withstand unprotected shipping (wind, rain, hail, thieves, rocks and so on). The transporter is responsible to make sure the car stays on the truck. There is a reason that the top automotive transporters use those expensive enclosed trailers. Don't forget, the transport driver stopped to retrieve what was obviously an improperly secured hard top. Properly secured Corvette hard tops or roof panels don't just fly off when the car is in motion.
Retrieving the hard top was something the driver elected to do because he could easily have played dumb and continued on. If you don't [at least] shrink wrap your car for transport when using a flatbed or open trailer you pretty much accept the risks.
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Retrieving the hard top was something the driver elected to do because he could easily have played dumb and continued on. If you don't [at least] shrink wrap your car for transport when using a flatbed or open trailer you pretty much accept the risks.
RB
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even if it was my car, I couldn't blame the transport company, I'd blame whoever turned the car over to them to ship it. the truck driver did the right thing by stopping to get the top but it's not his responsibility
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