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That cracked windshielf is your fault
That cracked windshielf is your fault
7/15/08
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Odds and ends: follow-ups on rock haulers, a collapsed pre-need funeral benefits company, digital TV converter boxes and, the cause of our ulcers, pumping gas.
'No clue and no training’
I got it all wrong in a recent column about how to make claims against rock haulers whose load spills and damages your vehicle. Or so says Greg McCann of Fort Worth, who has been in the trucking industry for almost three decades.
http://www.star-telegram.com/855/story/760416.html
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Oi..... Figures they'd quote the most ignorant reprobate to rebutt the original story. Does the industry a lot of good.
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thats true but the stay back 200 feet its not my fault if your windshield gets broken that is on the back of every rock bucket running down the road dosnt help ive run dumptruck before and ive seen guys fly in and out of the quarry never once geting out of there trucks to run the tarp or clean off the lip of the dump box im not saying that all rock haulers are like that but you know how the saying goes on bad apple ruins the bunch
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Strange article... I wonder where he got the stat that "Truckers kill about 30 people a day." Seems WAY too high and pretty out of context.

Also, I think that most insurance companies will replace that cracked windshield for free, regardless of the cause, at least for us 4-wheelers.
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Strange article... I wonder where he got the stat that "Truckers kill about 30 people a day." Seems WAY too high and pretty out of context.

Also, I think that most insurance companies will replace that cracked windshield for free, regardless of the cause, at least for us 4-wheelers.
Thats double the statistics of deaths that I've seen by the causation study. I love how journalists make up statistics to make the story beefier.
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Thats double the statistics of deaths that I've seen by the causation study. I love how journalists make up statistics to make the story beefier.
97.5 % of all statistics are made up.























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Thats double the statistics of deaths that I've seen by the causation study. I love how journalists make up statistics to make the story beefier.
Exactly... And to say that "Truckers Kill..." is just irresponsible. It would be more proper (although no less sad) to mention the number of fatal accidents that drivers were involved in, and possibly offer some suggestions on how 4-wheelers could help reduce this statistic (such as not tailgating, as the article suggests).

Just a few words can make a big difference in public perception.
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Following too close is the only way to get a cracked windshield? Thats news to me. How about passing another truck on a 2 lane road? I got a nice moon shaped crack on my d/s glass passing another truck up in Oregon...and it wasnt a rock hauler. It was a dry van or reefer.
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Yeah, but only 93.5% of the time
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