How many windshield cracks can a Raptor get from a dump truck?

[infinitereality]

Sounds like they're taking care of you. I don't know about Louisiana but Florida provided one free windshield a year because they use seashell in the roads.

Sounds like they are, but until it's a done deal I'm still concerned...

Are you speaking of insurance for Florida allowing 1 a year?

 

[The Macf]

Yes. I had the same thing and called mY insurance co. They told me Florida authorizes one windshield a year. No deductible no claim.

 

[Rockdoc]

Rock chips from "Bi Valves?" I wouldn't expect calcium carbonate or magnesium carbonate could have enough specific gravity or density to crack a windshield?. Gotta be some chunky crustaceans! {ha ha, sorry micro paleo talk... just can't help myself}
Funny you should mention Florida though. Last trip home from work down the Alaska highway, 3 weeks ago, I had a Floridian, massive, motor home dropping tools out of a carrier on the back rack that just trashed my windscreen. I think it was a Craftsman 3/8s' drive that came screaming at me. I managed to get the "nomads" pulled over near Pink Mountain and told him... Nice guy, felt terrible and offered to pay. As we go thru 2-4 windscreens a year up here and mine was already heading home to be replaced I thanked him but declined. Kinda funny really, 3 months ago I was watching North American Bald Eagles heading south and now all I see are North American motor homes heading north... and I mean a LOT of motor homes Lol.
Another post here suggested a "hardex" coating to help...... well as Mohs' hardness scale tell you, fused quartz has a hardness of 6-7, {out of 10} and our sharply angular, "gravel", comprised of chert arenites to pre-cambrian granite have a hardness of some where in the boron nitride feldspathic quartz ranges 6-8+, combined with terminal velocity of said rock, {I'm sure some bright young engineer could x,y / xx,y calculate impact numbers}... well the result of a painted coating as well as the surface hardness of the glass would logically make this idea somewhat of a "snake oil solution". {I did try it on a previous vehicle, {Hummer H3 SUT} that had a catchers mitt for a windshield}, and the results were what I expected. It was good for repelling rain though..
My 2 bits and sorry for being so verbose and long winded.... just couldn't resist. Lol

 

[Blind1]

Damn RockDoc do you really expect us to understand your post. I never learned all them terms when I took earth science in college. ...my head hurts.

 

[Rockdoc]

Oh Gosh....... was afraid of this after I reread my post. Been doing this job for 40+ years and I may have ingested to much tri-chlorothene and tetrabromoethane testing rocks over the years. Wife always tells me "no more rocktalk" as we cruise thru the Rockies headin to the west coast. See what happens when she's not around to temper me LOL
Sorry, I was just thinkin........................

 

[Blind1]

I feel for Mrs RockDoc. ...

 

[Rockdoc]

I feel for Mrs RockDoc. ...

OUCH!!! Ha Ha. On the upside for "Mrs RockDoc"... I'm gone for half to three quarters of the year..........

 

[SVT Bob18]

Long ago I asked my insurance guy about stuff falling out in front of you on the road. He told me that if it never hit the ground and went straight from their vehicle into yours then try to get the drivers info to make a claim and will almost win. If it hits the ground first then its can be seen as your fault more so cause you could of avoided it. Its a fine line but if anything ever happens, it never hit the ground, I watched it fly, had no time to react and bam. Sticking to that story if it ever happens.

Act of God? WTF. That is something that can be avoidable so can't see how that could be claimed as what caused it, its human stupidity not God's. Falling rocks off a hill side, yeah more likely. Damn, might as say anything we do is an Act of God, making a person is God's work (well besides the sex part), right? So now I do harm, oh God's fault for sending a soul down to my mother and now I did something bad. Geez, AZ is messed up if that truly correct.

Good point RDFTS. Here in Maryland it's pretty much the same deal. But, like anything else...it boils down to the wording...for instance:
Never say "something hit my car". All that will do is open you up for a mini interrogation. Trust me, if they can ask enough questions, they can trip you up and wiggle out of any liability.
Try using the word "landed" instead of "hit". My Lightning had a cracked windshield by one of these dumb-asses and I had to go through my insurance to get it replaced. While I was on the phone with my agent, I explained what happened. Very casually, he says, "Oh, so a stone bounced off the road and hit your windshield." I said, NO...it came of the truck in front of me and LANDED on my windshield, causing the crack. He was stuck and could not think of another question to ask me. Oh, he did ask me if I was sure. I was like, are you serious...yes I am sure...I had front row seats. After a few silent pauses, he assured me that I am covered and to call a windshield repair service and they will take it from there.
Just remember...LANDED.

 

[COBRA90GT]

That certainly sucks but hopefully the company will hold up their end of the deal and cover your damages.

Could you imagine if you saw REALLY big rocks getting tossed through your windshield at speed? We had this incident on the freeway out here this past week - ouch!

VIDEO: Truck loses load of rocks on southbound I-75 at Mack in Detroit - WXYZ.com

 

[Deleted member 12951]

That is nothin, it just looks like a place they hold TRR at.