I'm a brand new owner operator and I go off-road with my semi and little rocks get caught in my drive tires and get flung at my rear windows causing them to break. I need the cheapest solution:
1. Fenders over the driver tires (expensive)
2. Window guards (but I can't look behind me when I'm connecting to my trailer, even though I don't need to, but I'd like to.
3. Plexiglass instead of glass, but I was told it might shatter in cold temperatures.
What do you think?
Rear windows keep breaking
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by kameleon, Sep 5, 2019.
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You are already busting tempered glass windows back there. Plexi will break in it's due time in the cold. If thick enough it will take alot of rocks.
Buy the wheel fenders. Nothing fancy, if you are in a land of rocks probably cheaper to bolt on replacement.
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Maybe try some half fenders or quarters and see if it helps
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Are you pulling a belly dump , dont understand can't see trailer issue.
Tug Toy Thanks this. -
2 minutes of searching. Under $400 for a pair:
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Do it right, put a set of fenders on. Poly ones can be cheaper. Used ones also come up.
Anything else is a waste of time and a temporary bandaid on the situationTrucker186, daf105paccar, starmac and 5 others Thank this. -
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Fenders then. How much have you sunk into windows. 400 should not be a issue one time.
I usually threw shale rock off road in our ridges that have full of them. But the mixer had steel plate over the top of drives and on ends of them. That rock aint going anywhere. I might fall off the mountain but thats not anyones issue but my own.kameleon Thanks this. -
I'm gonna get fenders then you guys are right. I appreciate it
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