Hitting animals with your truck

never hit anything myself, but saw a caved in armadillo once in texas. bet that made a nasty crunch

 

pheasant in the mirror head at clear lake ia I-35... freightliner fld...no damage lotsa blood .
small hawk in center of windshield on I 80 council bluffs ia ...freightliner fld ...took out both windshields and center post .
large buck in hood and bumper on I 29 council bluffs ia ..volvo vnl ..8k in damage and deer got up and ran away .
turkey into windshield us 75 auburn nebr ...volvo vnl ...no damage and the guy coming at me grabbed the turkey and threw it in the trunk of his car .
deer ran under trailer I 29 rock port mo ...no damage but made a mess out of the truck following me .
deer ran under trailer us 20 soiux city ia ...no damage .
deer ran under trailer i 94 portage wis ..no damage .
deer ran under trailer I 80 dubois pa ...flying bone took out windshield of my buddy behind me .
deer ran into side truck us 20 waterloo ia ..took out tank step and qaurter fender .

 

And after the snark, you should have finished it with "here's your sign"

 

I always feel bad about hitting any animal...you can and will get into bigger problems if you swearve as there could be a car next to you...just stay in the lane your in..don't lock it up..but break..blow your horn..and turn your lights to low beam as you may be blinding what ever is there...the bigger the animal the bigger the mess..but if you swearve..not just change lanes,you could possibly flip your truck over..pigs are the worse as I've heard that they will tumble with their feet out,taking out airlines and what ever is low slung under your truck...one time a bunning truck out of Wyoming hit a hawk and took out the front window.. It was rather upset when it woke up and totalled the inside of the truck...owls are the same way..pull over and get out ASAP...deer and antalope will jump in front of you..cows and horse are bigger so you will get damage as with moose..the best thing is try not to drive past your headlights so you can see well enough before hand to change lane..but don't forget...that animal might also change to your new lane..and above all stay on the road...think of this.if it was easy....anybody could do it

 

. All of those deer remind me of a story that happened with a Schneider truck..a team driving down road hits deer with trailer...about 2 weeks later they had to get truck inspected by Schneider mechanic..it was hey driver.you doing your pretrip...ohh yeah every day...ohhh when did cha hit deer? Surprised look on driver..a couple weeks ago..how did you know? Well driver its still stuffed up between your tandems

 

forgot to mention my wisc. deer was in my dart days years ago and the trailer shop ppl in st.paul were a bunch of snobby low grades ...i giggled that steamy friday nite when i dropped that trailer at the yard knowing bambi would be waiting for them on the tandems monday morn .

 

It happens.

Pointed out to a Local Truckload Company driver while at a customer. He blew a tire on the tractor earlier in the day and it wedged up in the trailer tandems. The surprised look and the magic moment when he couldn't figure out why the tandems was not sliding.

If he didn't need to slide back the tandems at the receiver, The next driver pulling that wagon would of been confused also lol


No doubt about your story is true with animals.

 

I'm not leaving the road and then trying to explain, "I swear, it was a deer"...I'm staying on the road, if that means hitting a deer, dog or car...Only time I won't hit a car is if it's my fault, then I"ll do whatever I have to including leaving road, but if not my fault, someone or something may die, but not me, "I" have a family to go home to...

 

Did anyone keep the venison???? Here's a chart for the future: