Fender Styles... Which Do You Prefer?

Happy New Year, everybody!

I have a Freightliner Cascadia that I pull a side dump trailer with. I have a pretty useless quarter fender in front of my pusher axle and individual fenders on my pusher axle but nothing else for fenders on my drives. I have some mud flaps hanging on the front of my trailer that catch most of the stuff coming off of my drives by not all of it. Shattered the left rear window of my daycab Cascadia in November and did it again two days ago. I do almost all of my driving on gravel roads and my drive axles keep throwing rocks. At $350 per window plus the cost of losing a day of billable labor... I need to do something to stop this.

Straight to the point, I'm getting fenders. I prefer the look of the full over-the-top fenders pictured below. I only pull the side dump right now but will likely expand into doing some low-boy/detach equipment hauling at some point. But... from the places that I've called around to, the single fenders similar to the ones in the second picture are cheaper. I'm not crazy about how those look but I'm more about the bottom line and functionality than looks.

The only thing that I can think of to justify spending more money for the fenders that I want is that the single ones could be damaged a little easier in off road applications like what I'm doing. Not only am I primarily driving on gravel roads but I'm driving in and out of rough jobsites and into corn/bean fields in Nebraska. I'm not very nice to this truck at all.

Does anyone have any opinion about what style is better, one way or another. I'm especially interested in which style does a better job of keeping rocks on the ground and not flying through my back windows.

As always, any input is greatly appreciated!!

 

I forgot to mention that a headache rack isn't an option... or at least an easy one... right now. I have my hydraulic tank on the back so I'd have to move the tank or put the headache rack in a dumb spot. Here are some pictures of my truck so you can see what I'm kinda talking about. These first two pictures are with the old stubby little mud flaps on the front of the trailer. They didn't do much.






Here's my first shattered window. Man, when that thing goes, it sure does send you from zero to mad in about 0.002 seconds.



This is the second time I've taped up my window. Thanks to a local O'Reilly's for the free boxes.

Here's how my truck routinely looks like. She's not a beauty queen, not by any means. But, I got into this to make money not win beauty pageants. These last two pictures have my new, long mud flaps on the front of the trailer. They worked better but obviously not the cure-all. You can all see the normal terrain that I'm driving on. That's the thing that I think it would be better to have the set of fenders that are straight across the top of the drives rather than the individual ones that go over each set of duals. I feel like the individual dual fenders would get tore up pretty easily and I would likely be replacing them frequently.

 

I did order a set of those but they were so flimsy that I decided to return them. In fact, one was already bent from shipping. That and they don't swing out to clean the windows. I know that probably comes across as a pretty stupid thing to say after posting pictures of my routinely filthy truck but I do like to see out of my windows.

I did find these online and thinking about trying it. Either that or get some double sided tape and some plexiglass and put a homemade version over top of my glass. When the plexiglass eventually yellows then I'll peel it off and get new ones again. I intend on getting fenders regardless of what I do for window guards

 

I get what you're saying. If worse comes to worse, up just build my own thing like what's in this picture. I have the means it's just finding the time.