Ouch!!
#1 _HB1200_
Posted 24 March 2006 - 06:44 PM
Any one else had this happen to them?
HB1200
#2
Posted 24 March 2006 - 06:47 PM
#3 _TUFF_
Posted 24 March 2006 - 06:50 PM
tuff
#4
Posted 24 March 2006 - 07:25 PM
Glad no one was hurt other than your pride and joy!!
#5 _svenikus_
Posted 24 March 2006 - 07:44 PM
Theoretically, If you saw what truck it was, what would the chances be of tracking them down and getting them to pay the damage? or is it something you have to cop on the chin?
#6 _brett_32i_
Posted 24 March 2006 - 08:26 PM
hey! it happened to me when i had my vlt.Why couldn't it happen to a Commodore : /
weekend after i repaired my group a bar and i ran over one of the fu(kers on the sth eastern.
wasnt happy!!
#7
Posted 24 March 2006 - 08:32 PM
#8 _HB1200_
Posted 24 March 2006 - 08:35 PM
#9
Posted 24 March 2006 - 09:46 PM
#10
Posted 25 March 2006 - 08:31 AM
#11 _user asked to be removed_
Posted 25 March 2006 - 08:13 PM
*Liam
#12
Posted 25 March 2006 - 08:21 PM
#13 _user asked to be removed_
Posted 25 March 2006 - 09:55 PM
#14 _HB1200_
Posted 25 March 2006 - 11:39 PM
#15 _The Baron_
Posted 26 March 2006 - 07:39 AM
Time and time again I have seen dump trucks overloaded to the point that the crap is purched above the edge of the truck bin lip. Waiting for a sudden jolt for it to drop off. And yes you pricks it does happen, a couple of kilos to a few hundred kilos at a time. Sometimes you can follow the path they travel from work site to dump by the trail.
The thing is these operators know whats happening, a tyre is hard to pick as to when it is going to fail but a bad load is obvious.
The thing is the law does not give a crap about damaged property, we have to wait for someone to be killed for things to happen. If there is no income from it like speeding the law is not interested.
Please not I said the "law" not cops as some do give a shit but their priorities are set by others.
#16
Posted 26 March 2006 - 09:24 AM
Ive dealt with a reasonable ammount of truckies and trucking companies working on building sites, and i find its the good guys who get done, while somehow teh cowboys get away with it. The cowboys are the ones that cause the dramas and give everyone a bad name...
Shitty situation.
#17 _73LJWhiteSL_
Posted 26 March 2006 - 12:00 PM
$90 for a new windscreen seal (Mine was stuffed)
$180 for new windscreen
Total $270 (and that with with the RACV show your card and save scheme)
Not Happy Jan!
Steve
Edited by 73LJWhiteSL, 26 March 2006 - 12:01 PM.
#18 _kaz from adelaide_
Posted 26 March 2006 - 05:09 PM
If i was in a car i would have been dead as the back end of the trailer just landed past the rear of my bike, had i'd been in a car it would have landed right on driver side roof.
I still cant sit comfortably at that intersection. The truck co paid for damages on bike, truckie had a few scratches and i was in maga shock. even got on the news.
I had a cement truck infront of me on the freeway and a big chunk of concrete came from it and hit RUBY!!!!!! on the screen seal and chipped the glass. I knew he would be turning off at hahndorf so i took off ahead of him and pulled over. Truckie stopped, I went rite off at him. He said oh it couldn't have been from me as i cleaned my truck. Well sheeeet I saw the damn piece come from his truck, i was so mad.
#19 _CHOPPER_
Posted 30 March 2006 - 06:46 PM
Liability in these matters lie with the tyre retread company. If you kept the offending item ( unlikely I'd say ) you could make a claim against the retreading firm.A whole truck re-tread casing popped off a tanker as it was going past me in the opposite direction (in a 100km/h zone). I've hit some small bits of rubber over the years but I never expected this. The damage wasn't too bad but it sure scared the sh#t out of me.
#20 _dave720gtr_
Posted 30 March 2006 - 06:55 PM
SCREEN Thats what just happened two a chap a in bris hit him in the chest
trucky keped going nun the wiser it was just on tonights news
#21
Posted 30 March 2006 - 07:29 PM
I will stay clear of any trucks and pass them at speed where possible.
Edited by smeer, 30 March 2006 - 07:30 PM.
#22 _HB1200_
Posted 30 March 2006 - 07:33 PM
The re-tread company was liable but to the tyre dealer, tyre dealer was liable to trucking company and so-on. I kept the casing and took photos etc but the trucking company demanded it back to recoupe damages from the tyre company. I'm not sure if thats the way liability works but it was the trucking companies insurrer who paid for my repairs.Liability in these matters lie with the tyre retread company. If you kept the offending item ( unlikely I'd say ) you could make a claim against the retreading firm.
HB1200
#23 _CHOPPER_
Posted 30 March 2006 - 07:54 PM
" if our product damages your vehicle, we are liable ".
End of story.
#24 _HB1200_
Posted 30 March 2006 - 08:41 PM
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