When Joe Public rings up and complains about, in my line of work, “a stone/brick etc has blown off the top of the lorry and cracked my windscreen” or simply “a stone fli.cked up off the road” etc, why do so many companies just apologize and send a cheque in the post for whatever amount the “victim” dreams up? My employer nearly always pays out even if there’s evidence the vehicle was empty, not in that place at that time etc…Why not simply say “we’ll check this out and if there’s anything in it, we’ll call back”, and then forget the whole thing? I know it doesn’t cost me or my colleagues anything (and I haven’t had this thing happen to me for at least 12 months to my knowledge) but it seems to me that someone else is admitting to a load of crap on our behalf… 
Why was the word fl.icked censored? Since when was flicking as in A STONE F.LICKED UP AN OBSCENITY?
Muckaway:
When Joe Public rings up and complains about, in my line of work, “a stone/brick etc has blown off the top of the lorry and cracked my windscreen” or simply “a stone [zb] up off the road” etc, why do so many companies just apologize and send a cheque in the post for whatever amount the “victim” dreams up? My employer nearly always pays out even if there’s evidence the vehicle was empty, not in that place at that time etc.
I’ll give you £20 for his phone number 
i had two cars follow me into a layby on the A34 one night,just after the nearside middle tyre blew out,one complained that something hit his car,ye a bit of tyre 3" round,and the other complaining his ears were ringing,to which i replied,what was you ■■■■■■■ expecting the tyre blew out,and when they go, they make a BIG ■■■■■■■ bang.
to both now its time to call the fitter.
we had a simlar thing at a tipper company i worked at . a chav on his moped swore his tyre was damaged outside our yard so soppy gaffer gave him the dosh for a new one , before we knew it every other chav and his cousin had tried the same trick …
but try getting cloves off him too often and you got the " do you know how much we spend on blah blah blah " speech
Apparently, we do it to keep a good company image, but they don’t see it as a green light to anybody with a stone chip on their bonnet to get a free respray. I know tippers and skips have an almost deserved reputation for throwing stones out of their rear tyres, but our firms so fussy with sending out reminders to check tyres, tailgates etc you’d think they’d start to wonder… 
When they ring our place our gaffer asks them ‘have you got the stone’ which is usually followed by ‘well if you havent got it how do i know it was one of mine’ thats normally the end of the conversation.
monkeyboy1:
When they ring our place our gaffer asks them ‘have you got the stone’ which is usually followed by ‘well if you havent got it how do i know it was one of mine’ thats normally the end of the conversation.
Excellent!
I would bill them for the stone.Before long they will have nicked a house worth.
I assume the cost of investigating the claim outweighs just coughing up that’s why they do it, surely though it’s hard to prove unless they actually have some kind of video evidence?
Considering the amount of ■■■■■■ tipper drivers who drive down the road without sheeting their load properly, assuming a sheet ever gets anywhere near it then it comes as no surprise that people ring in. You don’t see curtainsiders, fridges and box wagons travelling down the road with a cloud of dust and stones following them.
And as regards being empty, unless you’ve actually swept it out, there’ll be stones coming out the back end and none of that includes what gets chucked out of the tyre treads.
Conor:
Considering the amount of ■■■■■■ tipper drivers.
merry christmas .
Conor:
Considering the amount of ■■■■■■ tipper drivers who drive down the road without sheeting their load properly, assuming a sheet ever gets anywhere near it then it comes as no surprise that people ring in. You don’t see curtainsiders, fridges and box wagons travelling down the road with a cloud of dust and stones following them.And as regards being empty, unless you’ve actually swept it out, there’ll be stones coming out the back end and none of that includes what gets chucked out of the tyre treads.
You dont need to sheet unless there’s a risk of the load blowing off or it’s a dry processed load under 200mm. So for the benefit of the ignorant, that excludes any tipper carrying sand or ballast; Unless of course the company rules/quarry rules state otherwise-and some muck sites specify this also ie contaminated jobs.
You sound like one of the “I’d never drive a tipper 'cos I’d get my boots dirty” brigade, who’d rather work for £2 per hour less just to drive something with a few gay spotlights on…
Oh and sweeping it out? That’s why the tipper was invented,and try finding a quarry that lets you climb into the back of a tipper to clean it.
Conor:
You don’t see curtainsiders, fridges and box wagons travelling down the road with a cloud of dust and stones following them.
You do when they’re running bent to meet a deadline and fall off the M40 between J9 and J8A 
Muckaway:
Conor:
Considering the amount of ■■■■■■ tipper drivers who drive down the road without sheeting their load properly, assuming a sheet ever gets anywhere near it then it comes as no surprise that people ring in. You don’t see curtainsiders, fridges and box wagons travelling down the road with a cloud of dust and stones following them.And as regards being empty, unless you’ve actually swept it out, there’ll be stones coming out the back end and none of that includes what gets chucked out of the tyre treads.
You dont need to sheet unless there’s a risk of the load blowing off or it’s a dry processed load under 200mm. So for the benefit of the ignorant, that excludes any tipper carrying sand or ballast; Unless of course the company rules/quarry rules state otherwise-and some muck sites specify this also ie contaminated jobs.
You sound like one of the “I’d never drive a tipper 'cos I’d get my boots dirty” brigade, who’d rather work for £2 per hour less just to drive something with a few gay spotlights on…
Oh and sweeping it out? That’s why the tipper was invented,and try finding a quarry that lets you climb into the back of a tipper to clean it.
That put him right…
Muckaway:
When Joe Public rings up and complains about, in my line of work, “a stone/brick etc has blown off the top of the lorry and cracked my windscreen” or simply “a stone [zb] up off the road” etc, why do so many companies just apologize and send a cheque in the post for whatever amount the “victim” dreams up? My employer nearly always pays out even if there’s evidence the vehicle was empty, not in that place at that time etc…Why not simply say “we’ll check this out and if there’s anything in it, we’ll call back”, and then forget the whole thing? I know it doesn’t cost me or my colleagues anything (and I haven’t had this thing happen to me for at least 12 months to my knowledge) but it seems to me that someone else is admitting to a load of crap on our behalf…
Why was the word [zb] censored? Since when was flicking as in A STONE [zb] UP AN OBSCENITY?
heard our boss say a while ago,havent got time to talk as TRYING TO SORT ACCIDENT THAT NEVER WAS,so id guess they dont just cough up,last firm investigated one in luton,no drop in luton on day in question,assumed theyd got reg from previous day,not paid
Muckaway:
Apparently, we do it to keep a good company image, but they don’t see it as a green light to anybody with a stone chip on their bonnet to get a free respray. I know tippers and skips have an almost deserved reputation for throwing stones out of their rear tyres, but our firms so fussy with sending out reminders to check tyres, tailgates etc you’d think they’d start to wonder…
You’ve just answered your own question Muckaway. Why should Skip lorries & Tippers deserve a reputation for throwing stones out of their tyres any more than other vehicles for picking up road swarf & passing it on?? The last two lorry screens I lost were both done by flying debris launched by vehicles coming towards me, one of them was a small van, the other was a car.
BB
“Gay spotlights”
Well said that man.
Personally, I think low loader drivers are worse than tipper drivers for chucking stones about… and I was one.
Tone
Muckaway:
Conor:
Considering the amount of ■■■■■■ tipper drivers who drive down the road without sheeting their load properly, assuming a sheet ever gets anywhere near it then it comes as no surprise that people ring in. You don’t see curtainsiders, fridges and box wagons travelling down the road with a cloud of dust and stones following them.And as regards being empty, unless you’ve actually swept it out, there’ll be stones coming out the back end and none of that includes what gets chucked out of the tyre treads.
You dont need to sheet unless there’s a risk of the load blowing off or it’s a dry processed load under 200mm. So for the benefit of the ignorant, that excludes any tipper carrying sand or ballast; Unless of course the company rules/quarry rules state otherwise-and some muck sites specify this also ie contaminated jobs.
You sound like one of the “I’d never drive a tipper 'cos I’d get my boots dirty” brigade, who’d rather work for £2 per hour less just to drive something with a few gay spotlights on…
Oh and sweeping it out? That’s why the tipper was invented,and try finding a quarry that lets you climb into the back of a tipper to clean it.
Muckaway:
Conor:
You sound like one of the “I’d never drive a tipper 'cos I’d get my boots dirty” brigade, who’d rather work for £2 per hour less just to drive something with a few gay spotlights on…
Oh and sweeping it out? That’s why the tipper was invented,and try finding a quarry that lets you climb into the back of a tipper to clean it.
I’ve done plenty of tipper work and I’ve not found a single quarry where I couldn’t sweep out. Difference is that being on agency, I was on hourly pay and not bonus or in fear of losing my job because I didn’t get 50 loads a day in so didn’t run everywhere at 56MPH, despite never touching even a dual carriageway, and had time to sheet down and sweep out.
Stoneledge was the last firm I did tipper work at.
But at least I know you’re in the ■■■■■■ category.