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Originally Posted by leahbeatle
You know, IL is one of the only states (the only state??) that lets trucks drive around with loads of whatever the heck they want without even so much as putting a tarp over it. The resulting cacophony of gravel and other detritus dribbling off the back of so many of our construction trucks is absolutely terrifying sometimes.
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It is the same way here in PA too.
Dump trucks, fully loaded to their brim with gravel, cruise our highways, "spilling" gravel onto the cars behind them, whenever the truck hits a bump or seam in the road surface. And apparently, they are not responsible for damage caused by the flying gravel because the law considers it to be an expected road hazard (I forget what the exact legal term is).
They had a writeup about it, in our local paper a few years back.