Why you should NEVER tail any type of large truck on the highway (large windshield crack)
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After owning my car for 5 years, and after spending four of those five years of car ownership driving my car 100 kilometres a day (50 KM each way to and from Montreal, five days a week) I was recently in a rush and decided to forego my 80-90 KM/H highway driving in the right lane and instead decided to push it a tad over 100 KM/H while drafting a large dumptruck on the highway. What did the increased speed and proximity to the back of a large truck get me? Why debris (rocks, stones, pebbles, who knows) being kicked up from the rear tires of the truck, hitting my windshield at over 100 KM/H, and the result was a nice large crack running horizontally along the driver-side of my windshield. Essentially a bid to save 10 or so minutes of driving time ended up costing me $300 worth of windshield replacement (since the crack is MUCH larger than a large coin, no windshield repair shop would even dare to try to repair my windshield). Needless to say, I have learned a valuable lesson, and encourage anyone who does not want to undergo an avoidable costly repair to do the same: NEVER tail any type of large truck (such as an 18 wheeler tractor trailer rig semi truck or a dump truck) on the highway: slow down and fall back away from him; speed up and pass him, whichever, just DO NOT remain behind him. If this can happen to me in early June, when the highways are relatively patched up and clean, this can happen to anyone at ANY time of the year.