Truck Damaged by Spreader Truck near Dallas

[Tucson Z60]

Here it is, what it is I am not sure. Looks and feels like crushed rock/gravel.

 

[Alljackedup408]

Here it is, what it is I am not sure. Looks and feels like crushed rock/gravel.

damn!

got any pics of the side of the truck?

 

[Bigredmariner]

Looks like what we call "Dirty D" it a decomposed granite gravel that's ground up. Makes a good road base and hellacious dents in vehicles.

 

[Tucson Z60]

No pics of the truck....it's not dented that I can see but the chips range from small paint pits to some chips the size of the med sized rocks in the picture.

They must have ran out of sand to start using this stuff?? The roads were bad but you gotta wonder what they guy was thinking that called for the use of this stuff?

 

[Alljackedup408]

No pics of the truck....it's not dented that I can see but the chips range from small paint pits to some chips the size of the med sized rocks in the picture.

They must have ran out of sand to start using this stuff?? The roads were bad but you gotta wonder what they guy was thinking that called for the use of this stuff?

he had the need for mass destruction ... obviously.

 

[RedRider]

Damn. That sucks.

 

[Sodbuster]

I'm not sure what they were spraying, but I highly doubt TXDOT will do anything about it. There was probably a "stay back 200 ft" sign on the back of the truck (or at least they will claim there was). So, they will absolve themselves that way (more than likely).

I'm not sure what they were spraying, but I have noticed a lot of not sand getting caught in people's tires and then it getting flung at the cars & trucks behind them.. I'm hoping they'll get the sweepers out, here soon, to start cleaning up the roads..
Sorry to hear about your damage, though..

Don't worry...your spring floods will wash that crap off the roads...

 

[Darkanion]

Don't worry...your spring floods will wash that crap off the roads...

They're calling for more rain / sleet / snow tonight and tomorrow morning.. So, I'm sure they won't be "cleaning anything up" very soon... I think I heard on the news that we might get another light round, Friday morning, before warming up to the 60's for the weekend..

to 60's for the weekend!

 

[Sodbuster]

Looks like what we call "Dirty D" it a decomposed granite gravel that's ground up. Makes a good road base and hellacious dents in vehicles.

I've not seen anything quite that large on truck-mounted sand-and-salt spreaders


I remember the time back in 1998 that the wife and I traveled on the turnpike through Kansas in February and we got behind one of those rigs in our '94 Chrysler Concorde at the time....
The lights on the back on the truck were not working so we didn't know what kind of truck it was until we got sprayed with sand/salt which sounded like we were being pelted by large gravel...
I finally got around him to pass but the hood did get a few chips out of that little adventure...

 

[Nick The Great]

Sorry to hear this

I had that happen to me once, buy luckily it was just salt, so it didn't matter. Sure does seem like a case of "wrong place, wrong time." In defense of the TXDOT , they'd still be waiting to turn the spreader on if they'd waited until nobody was around.