Personal road story odd things.

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  1. Jun 21, 2018 #1
    Oldironfan

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    I just remembered today driving south through SLC.
    About 2 years ago driving south down I 15 SLC a 90s camaro pulled on the freeway went in front of me for a while there was a breeze. All of a sudden the sunroof blew off at 70mph, and flew back at me and hit the center of my grill. I thought it was going to hit my windshield at first. I was not happy. Tried to follow the vehicle but they just sped up and I lost them.
     
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  3. Jun 27, 2018 #2
    homeskillet

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    Well, I have an odd thing....I've had two bird strikes this month.

    First was about two weeks ago. I'm on the interstate and a medium-sized black bird (starling, maybe?) flies in from my right, gets caught in the slipstream over the hood and BONKS into the roof fairing. I look to the right rearview and see the bird come straight down like a badminton birdie. KLUNK!! Dead bird. Sorry 'bout that, dude.

    A week later, different interstate, what looks like a pigeon flies in front of the truck, high right to low left WHUMP gets tagged by the bumper. Didn't see where it went, checked the bumper and undercarriage for forensic evidence when I stopped for fuel but found nothing.

    Last bird strike before these was 1995. Weird.
     
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  4. Jun 27, 2018 #3
    Oldironfan

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    I've noticed more bird hits also in the past 3 years. Out of near 10 years total.
    My freightliner centuries, and Columbia truck I've drove only hit 2 birds. All these newer super slick trucks seem to hit birds more easy.
     
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  5. Jun 27, 2018 #4
    kemosabi49

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    Back in my cabover days I hit a bird in southern Nebraska. Broke the passenger side windshield. The next week I was driving on I80 in Ohio. Was near Youngstown going EB across from the WB scalehouse. Had a wild turkey, I was told by the guy behind me, come up from the brush on the shoulder. Hit the bottom middle or the windshield. Broke both sides glass, caved in the center post and bent the body metal under that. $2500. damage. I was also coverd with glass. Seemed like a lot more bird hits on those cabovers then I see today.
     
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  7. Jun 29, 2018 #5
    G13Tomcat

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    Wild turkeys are RAMPANT here in Ohio....they really should get more ppl out here hunting them or something. ODNR isn't too proficient, IMHO.

    re: The cabover hits.....
    That's because they led with the windshield, hahaha~! :) Sure miss seeing those purty gals. Here's the last one I recall :
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    When I was hauling logs, truck boss had the knuckleboom truck. Turkey flew across the road, JUST missing the cab. One of the uprights on the log bunks got it, though...and it landed in the seat for the boom. Rode there all of the way back to the shop. They cooked it up for lunch the next day with all of the fixin's...mighty tasty.
     
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    homeskillet

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    A group of wild turkeys used to hang out on the concrete divider where US 9J and US 20 met the terminal road from the gasoline racks. They had no fear. We used to joke about "hand-to-hand" turkey season; just open your door and grab one.

    Every so often, the turkeys would attack a truck's left steer tire while the truck was waiting at the traffic light. Never happened to me, but I saw it happen four or five times while I was in line at the light, to trucks that were ahead of me. Crazy......
     
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    You need a faster truck!
     
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  11. Jul 2, 2018 #9
    Oldironfan

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    It was a 98 mph truck. But I was not doing that in 3pm traffic.
     
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