Been seeing a lot of dead turkeys this spring dead on the highways. Today I managed to get one myself. It wasn't on the road, it was flying. Glanced off of the top of my cab, then hit the road with a thud behind my trailer. I felt bad for the poor thing because it wasn't dead yet, but this was I-5 and I'm sure it won't last long. Hit a deer a couple years ago in a Cascadia. It glanced off the front bumper and just destroyed it. I had to zip tie it back on until I got back to the terminal. No damage from the turkey. Wonder if I should put a turkey sticker on the side of my truck?
What's your road kill score?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by SteveScott, Apr 23, 2019.
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In my tractor, 0 and hoping to keep it that way. Probably won't though.
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1 deer 1 skunk 6 birds and a raccoon. No damage to anything. Deer went under my drive tires. Birds all got caught in wind and miss judged. 6 different occasions. Skunk got hit bybmy tandems.. Stank bad for 3 days feel bad for the guys parked next to me those days... Raccoon just ran out and stoped and under drive tire it went.
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I ran over a dog before that was the worst , i got somebodys pet chicken down in south texas, got a bird down in phoenix , one of those big black buzzards, black feathers flew everywhere , never hit a deer or a cow or an elk , nothing like that, im scared to hit one in my cascadia , it would probably total this plastic junk
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several deer, many rabbits, ground squirrels, lots of birds in big trucks. not sure if it counts , but in a pickup a couple deer, a dog, several rabbits, one horse and even a deer on my V45. One of my drivers even hit a hog once. I put some of those deer whistles on it the next time he came home, and he called me two days later and told me a deer knocked the one off of the passenger side. lol
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