My 1st CF Rant
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From: Middlesex NJ
My 1st CF Rant
So heres something I cant stand, these GD gravel/earth/garbage, WTF, they are trucks on the road.
These things just SPEW crap out of and over the top. And you cant avoid it, absent pulling over and letting the frigging thing get miles ahead of you, which isnt always possible or convienant. You can run into a "jetstream" of random crap from a truck thats a mile or more in front of you.
Maybe the average person doesnt give a rats, but for the person that gives a flying one about their car this kind of thing is just annoying and frustrating as hell. If this was some little kid peppering cars with a slingshot as they drove by, you'd call the cops. Some dink leaves a trail of flying debris for miles and its, "thems the breaks".
GDI.
/rant off
thnx!
These things just SPEW crap out of and over the top. And you cant avoid it, absent pulling over and letting the frigging thing get miles ahead of you, which isnt always possible or convienant. You can run into a "jetstream" of random crap from a truck thats a mile or more in front of you.
Maybe the average person doesnt give a rats, but for the person that gives a flying one about their car this kind of thing is just annoying and frustrating as hell. If this was some little kid peppering cars with a slingshot as they drove by, you'd call the cops. Some dink leaves a trail of flying debris for miles and its, "thems the breaks".
GDI.
/rant off
thnx!
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From: Raymore Mo
I feel the same as you, but what really pizzes me off are the people who throw lite cigarette butts out of their windows. This is not good when the top is off. Hey butthead my vette isn't your damn ashtray. Oh crap, now you got me started.
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From: Greenville NC
Everyone of us have been in your shoes 
I just moved from N VA and the cops there have special teams just for truck enforcement because it is such a big problem. Unfortunately, there are too many trucks. If it isn't the load flying out, it's flying rocks from tires. I had 5 windshields in 3 years driving I-66 there, not to mention the paint chips. I am so glad I don't have to do that anymore. I wish you the best 
I just moved from N VA and the cops there have special teams just for truck enforcement because it is such a big problem. Unfortunately, there are too many trucks. If it isn't the load flying out, it's flying rocks from tires. I had 5 windshields in 3 years driving I-66 there, not to mention the paint chips. I am so glad I don't have to do that anymore. I wish you the best
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From: Godfrey IL
Quite a few years back, a rock or boulder was stuck between the duals on the trailer. It let go at highway speeds and went through a windshield killing the woman passenger.
Don't get me started on the idiots who throw cig. butts out the window. Like there is nothing out there in the environment that burns. Inconsiderate @#$%%^^&!!!!!!!
Don't get me started on the idiots who throw cig. butts out the window. Like there is nothing out there in the environment that burns. Inconsiderate @#$%%^^&!!!!!!!
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From: North Reading MA
Yeah, I hate them too. When I lived in AZ, I got behind a gravel truck and sure enough, my windshield broke (it wasn't in the Corvette, I didn't have one then, it was a firebird). Now, I hate getting behind them.
Now, on my way to work, I drive by a gravel pit and there are trucks going in and out all the time. I guess I just have to be careful.
Now, on my way to work, I drive by a gravel pit and there are trucks going in and out all the time. I guess I just have to be careful.
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From: Haymarket VA
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Let's not forget the asshats that dump the remainder of their morning coffee/soda/tea into the street. After the person in front of me runs over it, it is now on my paint. Thanx douche.
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From: Eads, Tennessee
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If your car does get damaged by any material falling out of a hauling truck, they are responsible for the damage. Just make sure you get the name of the truck company. There is a law here which is refered to as "escaping debris". A lot of companies will put stickers on the rear of dump trucks telling motorist to stay at least 100 feet back-not responsible for falling debris. They are 100% wrong and it's a smoke screen.They are responsible.
But try and avoid the headache completely, if you're in back of a dump truck turn your vette the other direction.
But try and avoid the headache completely, if you're in back of a dump truck turn your vette the other direction.
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I know exactly how you feel. It's always my luck to get behind one of the gravel trucks - I just love dodging loose gravel flying at me. 
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From: 1000 Vin Scully Ave, L.A California
Originally Posted by 1965imp
It's bad enough that you have to drve a nice car by these gravel/garbage trucks...but think about the poor saps on motorcycles.
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From: The Beautiful Pacific Northwest
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In Washington state, a woman was severly injured a while back by some junk that flew off of a truck and crashed through her windshield. She was a beautiful woman before the accident and now has been permanently disfigured. More recently a man just avoided being killed by a chunk of metal that bounced off another truck and shattered his windshield.
As a result, our legislature passed new laws increasing the penalty for those who travel with loose loads. Unfortunately, they often are not caught and even if they are, the damage has been done.
As far as possible, I will not drive behind any vehicle that's carrying a load in the back. If I have to, I'll slow way down, get over, or do anything to avoid being in that position. It's a shame that some irresponsible drivers don't ensure that their loads are safe and will stay in place.
As a result, our legislature passed new laws increasing the penalty for those who travel with loose loads. Unfortunately, they often are not caught and even if they are, the damage has been done.
As far as possible, I will not drive behind any vehicle that's carrying a load in the back. If I have to, I'll slow way down, get over, or do anything to avoid being in that position. It's a shame that some irresponsible drivers don't ensure that their loads are safe and will stay in place.
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From: North Canton OH
Ohio's just as bad. Sucks for me right now I live by 2 asphalt companies. Another thing they do that annoys me is drip tar so bad that we have mounds of it at every stoplight. Big 3-4" humps of it all over the road everywhere.
I try to keep my car off the highways because of it. Rocks thrown at 35-45 don't travel nearly as far.
Which is why I always think its funny but when someone brags about their car having "all highway miles." I think to myself.... ok, so your saying its beat? The windshield is totally sandblasted? Your suspension is trashed from hitting speedbump sized frost heaves at 65mph all day?
No thank you.
I try to keep my car off the highways because of it. Rocks thrown at 35-45 don't travel nearly as far.
Which is why I always think its funny but when someone brags about their car having "all highway miles." I think to myself.... ok, so your saying its beat? The windshield is totally sandblasted? Your suspension is trashed from hitting speedbump sized frost heaves at 65mph all day?
No thank you.
Last edited by zonsolo; May 24, 2006 at 12:36 PM.
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Being from AZ I can feel your pain. The whole state is a giant sand blaster that destroys windshields and paint. Because of the housing boom here, there are construction vehicles everywhere and it seems that all of them have crap flying out of them. My windshield is covered with giant dings from rocks and debris. Amazing I have no cracks. My windshield deductible is the same as my collsion deductible, $500, so I am not in a big hurry to replace my windshield, just so it can be destroyed again.
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From: North Canton OH
Originally Posted by DanFPilot
My windshield deductible is the same as my collsion deductible, $500, so I am not in a big hurry to replace my windshield, just so it can be destroyed again.