Stupid Dumb f**king Trucks

[DNGRUS]

3rd party minimum. Always.

Agreed. Insurance isnt just to protect you Rimon, but to protect others too..

[saff_cossie]

Just get the rego and company. From there you can ring them and explain the time and place it happened which is fairly easy to check out for most now as we use satellite tracking. I have worked for 3 truck companies and am responsible for satellite tracking etc as part of my job.

I now work for the parent company of a very well known aussie icon in trucking and we get legitimate and bogus claims most weeks. I assist in checking them out and we always pay up if the claim is genuine.

I also hear of claims from dumbass's who mistake our company name for that of a well known hire company so we get their calls too!!

Also remember, most won't know it happens and heaps of people flash at trucks for going slow, changing into their lane etc.

Unless they are tipper trucks, most companies will have some kind of tracking as it is generally a KPI put in place by the customer.

[dezz]

coz its useless

:laughing-smiley-014:

[FATGTS-R]

Well said saff cossie. I look after the sattelite tracking (minor planet,VMI) at work sometimes as well and to have any chance you would of needed to call the company straight away.

Even then, if they didnt have tracking it will take a lot of recalling and pestering to maybe get something out of it.

We also get a lot of pricks ringing up claiming one of our trucks hit them, flung something at them etc etc. Check the tracking and low and behold the truck was for instance in for service all day lol.

Always a good feeling to have a heated conversation with a moron from a claimees insurance company and string them along for a while making them think your guilty and then asking for a fax number and sending off the sattelite report showing the truck was 100km away from the bullshit incident.

On that note....Insurance.

[chris_r31]

habib, tomorow follow a dump truck, that is droping a heap of stone and gravel on the ring road,

even if it isnt really dropping anything the driver doesnt no just make sure there is dirt in the tipper lol..

then write down company and phone number down with rego of the truck, the trucks have trailer rego's aswell as the truck rego, u can see it just behind the wheels connected to the truck..

ring the company and say your following the truck that has stone chipped the shit out of your car, more times than none it will get fixed..

and dont tailgate trucks and you wont have this problem...

[dezz]

actually when it comes to tip trucks dropping stones out of the small gap in the rear tail gate, you'd be better off sitting right on their ass so the stones don't have a chance to hit the road/wheels and flick back at speed...

[West]

number what????what you talking about boy???

Look in the mirror!

[tin-pain]

i like the idea that was mentioned on the first page " always carry a pen and paper in your glove box" will always come in handy sooner or later.

but yea third party insurance should be the bare minimum. i got a friend that has to pay 14k cause he smashed into a brand new corollla and he had no insurance.

comes out of his pay check every week on apprentice wages.

[R34NRG]

coz its useless

i know it might be expensive, but its defiantly not useless.

if u had insurance.....and u got the trucks rego, your car would have a new layer of paint already

you'd be better off sitting right on their ass

yeh good one dezz

Edited May 26, 2008 by R34NRG

[saff_cossie]

habib, tomorow follow a dump truck, that is droping a heap of stone and gravel on the ring road,

even if it isnt really dropping anything the driver doesnt no just make sure there is dirt in the tipper lol..

then write down company and phone number down with rego of the truck, the trucks have trailer rego's aswell as the truck rego, u can see it just behind the wheels connected to the truck..

ring the company and say your following the truck that has stone chipped the shit out of your car, more times than none it will get fixed..

and dont tailgate trucks and you wont have this problem...

Not the way to go and have seen that too. It's dishonest and hits companies hards as margins are very small on trips as it is so to have some idiot making a bogus claim can turn a trip just in the black to well in the red. If the claim is genuine make it but dont waste innocent people's time and money with fraudulant claims.

FATGTS-R - That's the stuff, we run a few hundred trucks on that. Have used VDO Tracking also before which is also very good.

[adznight]

No insurance? Sounds like the rocks are in your head not on the road. If you hit ANYTHING you're gonna get reamed. You should have 3rd party minimum. Imagine if you lost control or you were hit and pushed into a building. Who's going to pay the 100's of thousands to get that fixed? Mad I tell ya.

Anyone who can't afford insurance shouldn’t drive a car, especially a Skyline.

With regards to trucks, it PISSES me the fu(k off too. I'm constantly getting bombarded with stones along the Western Port Highway. It's mostly truck with earth movers on the back covered in mud or transport trucks with no cover over the loads. Just dob them in if you get hit, insurance will sort it out. My old man got fixed up for a truck dropping shit all over his car.

[dezz]

yeh good one dezz

It wasn't a suggestion to tailgate, it was saying that if its rocks flicking up from a truck you want to avoid, you'd have to be a long way back from them, or right on their ass so that the rock doesn't flick up....But I guess you'd know more about car accidents than me

[madbung]

i drive around with pen and paper in glove box at all times....

Good thinking ...

My phone has a handy txt function and a sound recorder...so do most phones.

I know it's not a pen and paper but, seeing as I carry it on my person at all times would it be ok to use this handy little gadget instead?

[FATAZZ]

Good thinking ...

My phone has a handy txt function and a sound recorder...so do most phones.

I know it's not a pen and paper but, seeing as I carry it on my person at all times would it be ok to use this handy little gadget instead?

You'll probly get fined for using a mobile phone while driving,so no.

[madbung]

You'll probly get fined for using a mobile phone while driving,so no.

But pulling a pen and paper from the glove box and writing a note while driving would be ok... no fine? or just a smaller one

[FATAZZ]

bigger fine. nah i don't know it's weird hey.

[Mayuri Krab]

Another +1 for hating trucks.

Espeically the ones where they go hell slow (more than 10km/h under limit), when you are behind them but as soon as they see you changing lanes to overtake they f*cken speed up!

As*holes

/End rant/

[FATGTS-R]

LOL Mayuri. I get out on the trucks myself a lot and most of the time its not the case although it would seem so.

On the ring road on a windy day I can be going along at 100km/h (WOT) and a car will be happily sitting behind me. The road will swing around (still dead flat) bringing the wind on from a diferent direction and I will slowly start falling down as far as 80km/h WOT.

By the time the car behind gets fed up and pulls out to overtake the road has changed direction again giving me a tailwind and I get back up to 100km/h with a ranting lunatic flying past giving me the finger lmao...

[R-SPEC]

lol nah wouldnt do anything on purpose or make shit up etc.

i'm sure it wont be long for something like this to happen again and this time i'll make sure to get as much details etc

Another +1 for hating trucks.

Espeically the ones where they go hell slow (more than 10km/h under limit), when you are behind them but as soon as they see you changing lanes to overtake they f*cken speed up!

As*holes

/End rant/

yeah has happened to me too few times. tiz stupid really...

[paulr33]

truck = how many weight behind the prime mover? i would be driving probably the same if i was driving a big heavy truck

car = 1400kgs very movable in a hurry and easy to make quick decisions