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Rocks thrown up ruins my weekend!!

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by bentstrider83, Jan 29, 2022.

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  1. Jan 30, 2022 #41
    bentstrider83

    bentstrider83 Road Train Member

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    Be around the younger crowds enough, or at least on their forums and sub-reddits and you'll see it used quite frequently.
     
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  3. Jan 30, 2022 #42
    Arctic_fox

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    Dont feel bad, i was confused when i first heard it too. Apparently it comes from a scene in that one soywars movie. But its funny enough i adopted its use. Sometimes my so called "peers" come up with words that are amuseing enough to keep. Though more often then not i weep for the future of spoken and written grammer.
     
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  4. Jan 30, 2022 #43
    homeskillet

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    Well, that's the problem.

    I'm an "empty nest-er", and I don't hang around on reddit.

    This forum is about as "tech" as I get.....so, there it is.
     
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  5. Jan 30, 2022 #44
    bentstrider83

    bentstrider83 Road Train Member

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    I'm unmarried, no kids, and apart from the job and road trips by myself, I'm usually at home all the time. So social media is pretty much my outlet. I'm nearing 40 now. But even when I was in my teens/20s, I was still a curmudgeonly, introverted loner. Handball at the courts, but when the crowd showed up, I ran over to the '71 GMC I had at the time and peeled out into the sunset.

    All I can say is that once social media became a thing in the mid 2000s, I was a proverbial shoo-in.
     
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  7. Jan 30, 2022 #45
    bentstrider83

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    On to the broken window. I'm just going to duct tape some Lowe's plastic sheeting to the replaced window after it gets fixed. After that scare, I figure an added layer of clear plastic will act as a sort of shield for the regular glass. At this point I'm now too paranoid of "lightning striking twice". I mean a rock thrown up can't do much damage to a clear plastic sheet put up over the new tempered glass.

    That and I don't plan on ever opening the window. I usually just crack the door slightly if I need to talk to someone at the gate.
     
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  8. Jan 30, 2022 #46
    Val_Caldera

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    The "Plastic Sheeting" might grab the attention of some d.o.t. wanker and maybe geet u a ticket for "unclear/distorted vision thru window" or something written in d.o.t. incomphrehenunsensibility (or a werd er 2 to that effect).
     
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  9. Jan 30, 2022 #47
    bentstrider83

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    I normally only do NM-TX-OK-CO-KS and back. These states seem pretty chill for the most part. Only TX seemed to have inspected me the most so far(two inspects over a 6 year period). Everyone else in this region seems to be quiet.

    I'll just do it and explain in the case of a pullover. I mean, the sheeting is clear enough to pass as glass.
     
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  10. Jan 30, 2022 #48
    mjd4277

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    Can’t do that anymore. My T-680 had to get a new windshield barely a month and a half into driving it due to a freeze/thaw defect causing a foot and a half fracture from the bottom of the windshield almost to the middle. With sensors they put in these newer trucks it’s a little more tedious now. Took about about 4 1/2 hours to get my windshield replaced(mostly because the truck had to stay in the shop at room temperature so the new seal could seat properly around the windshield-it was too cold to leave the truck outside).
     
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  11. Feb 9, 2022 #49
    RockinChair

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    If you don't like the way people drive on rural highways then you're going to really hate dealing with city traffic, especially during rush hour.
     
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  12. Feb 9, 2022 #50
    RockinChair

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    I really don't want to be that guy, but I think you meant "grammar."
     
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