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Me too. Those signs don't mean anything.

Dang

Boy that coulda been bad

Dang, glad your ok

unless you memorized the trucking company's name and dot#, lil late, but Dad had people always trying to get him to pay for their windshield after a rock got thrown up from the truck tires. as many times as I heard it, I doubt I'll ever forget it...if it fell OFF of the truck there's a claim, if it was thrown up from the road, no claim.

that's be part of the truck that went through windshields when (what sounds like) the tire blew on the 18 wheeler and NOT kicked up from the road.

glad it wasn't any worse!!

Son of a.... glad your ok

I'm definitely on the truckers side most of the time. The majority of accidents are not caused by the CDL holder but some moron in a 4wheeler.
However, I did have to get extremely harsh with one trucking company a few years ago.
The driver left a construction job with a flatbed that was littered with mud and rocks. Loose mud and rocks.
He merged in lane ahead of me and I watched the rocks come flying off the trailer and two of them destroyed my windshield.
Long story short, after I met the manager face to face and told him he was fixing to need 911, he agreed to replace my windshield.

Got one better.Was heading north on I-75 years ago at nite heading for the farm. It was pouring rain.Heard a LOUD bang and something hit my windshield. I pulled over and still rocking on the top of the hood was about a 16" piece of leaf spring. The edge of it had caught my hood about 3 feet in front of, and dead center with my chest., and sliced it open like a can opener for about a foot.It expended enough energy on the hood it did not even break the windshield.An inch higher and this post would never have been made. I kept that thing for years just as a reminder just how quickly it can be over.

Years ago a lady that Graduated with my mother (Baker High school) was killed when tire flew off a truck and came in her home. The lady had been bed ridden since she was a teen i believe...

I’m not saying I know either way but wheel weights on big trucks are almost non existent and I’ve never in 40+ years seen any on a trailer or drive tire. Most (98%) truck tires are not even balanced. 1.98% are steers balanced internally with balance bags inside the tire.

I’m guessing it came off something else and the truck/trailer tires slung it up.

I agree. I’ve been around big trucks most of my adult life and I’ve never seen one with wheel weights. However looking at the size of the weight and the clamp part that’s hammered on to the rim, it’s very large like it would have been on a thick rim. I’m not saying it came off one of those 3 trucks. I’m saying it definitely came FROM one of those trucks and it scared the chit outa me. Oh and the dog. Already talked to my insurance and the windshield will be changed when I get home next week. I just thank God that’s all that happened.

About 12 years ago I was heading south on I59 in MS following a truck pulling a trailer load of building debris. Before I knew it, 1/2 a brick fell off the trailer, hit the ground and bounced into my windshield spraying glass chunks on me. Damn near ran off the road. Thought for sure I was a goner as that brick hit the windshield directly in front of my face.

Thankful it was t worse Marsh. I have a friend that had a wheel chock come through his window and hit his son in the head while sitting in the back seat. It drew blood and left him a temporary knot. Luckily the windshield slowed it down enough that it didn’t cause any serious harm.

A couple of years ago I had a Waste Management truck with a dumpster in front of me on I-10 when the whole dang dumpster fell off. Luckily it hit and slid off the side of the road.

Car rims are way thicker than truck rims. These late model rockstar rock crawler bogger mudclaw donked and dipped is my guess

Seen an entire rear rim and tire ON FIRE come off an 18 wheeler coming through Atlanta once.
Hit a concrete divider and must have launched over 100ft. in the air. Bumper to Bumper traffic.
It hit between lanes and bounced completely across 3-4 lanes of traffic over in the bushes.
Scared the CHIT outta me too.

Back when the wife and I were driving for Benny Whitehead, we were headed to Deerfield Beach Publix warehouse. It was about 2 AM and we were on I-95 when a northbound rig lost a whole tandem off his trailer. It made it thru the medium and hit another rig that was passing us. That rig went into the medium, got stopped, but then caught fire and burned to the ground. Both drivers were able to get out in time and were unhurt. We couldn't help but think what might have happened to us if that other rig hadn't been passing us at that exact time. Closest call we had in 7 years and 1,250,000 miles of driving. Praised the Lord that night.

Median. It’s the thing in the middle