Rear windows keep breaking

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  1. kameleon

    kameleon Bobtail Member

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    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?
     
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  3. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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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.

    And be careful digging your drives that violently into the rocks.
     
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  4. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    Maybe try some half fenders or quarters and see if it helps
     
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  5. kameleon

    kameleon Bobtail Member

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    Thank you! Can I glue together two sheets of plexi to make it stronger? And the back windows are glued on, would the same type of adhesive work on the plexiglass?
     
  6. Capacity

    Capacity Road Train Member

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    Are you pulling a belly dump , dont understand can't see trailer issue.
     
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    AModelCat Road Train Member

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    2 minutes of searching. Under $400 for a pair:
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  8. pushbroom

    pushbroom Road Train Member

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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 situation
     
  9. kameleon

    kameleon Bobtail Member

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    I pull a chassis with a sand box on it out to the oil fields so I'm on gravel often.
     
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  10. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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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.
     
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  11. kameleon

    kameleon Bobtail Member

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    I'm gonna get fenders then you guys are right. I appreciate it
     
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