Posted by Ia Leo on September 28, 2011 at 17:36:34 from (67.224.25.173):
This may be one of those onerous regulations the biz wiz's complain about: dump trucks with dual wheels needing mud flaps. 1. Saw a county truck with half of the flap missing. 2. Saw several commercial dump trucks with one or more missing flaps. 3. Saw NO state highway trucks with missing flaps. 4. Saw every one of the local asphalt contractor dump trucks with no flaps. Not all the co. trucks, just a half dozen in line to jobs. 5. I get very uncomfortable finding myself behind those duals, waiting for a fist sized rock or road debris to come at me. I try to drop back (which they like anyway) or pass them. 6. I understand the certainty of never being able to identify or sue them with my windshield being smashed, my sweetheart or me being killed because they never advertise their company or phone number on the back dump gate. 7. The driver would never know that they were leaving a scene of a serious accident that their vehicle caused. 8. Bet my insurance company wouldn't call it a road hazard and pay up.
So how can so many trucks operate without a ticket? I can get sitations with one headlight out or speeding or not having a little updating sticker on the license plate.
I can see flaps being hard to anchor on a tilted up asphalt truck box, what with backing and forwarding around pavers and having sticky tires, but their duals are a menace to unsuspecting, innocent, church going, taxpaying, hardworking, honest, barely making it folks. I cannot recall seeing any semi trailer without working mud flaps and I see many of them daily.
Do dump trucks have a dispensation from flaps?
Hope you and I never have an object from between the duals hurt anyone you love......Leo
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