I guess I didn't realize that a bull bar could be so intimidating. All the time I had mine on people didn't even get close to my truck. I took it off a few days ago because the brackets got broke up in Tuttle. Well since then I had one car push me off the interstate and into the median, then tonight I had a lady hit me in Manhattan. We were in the left turn lanes (there were 2 lanes) and she was on the left I on the right. As the light turned green I took off and started turning left, I looked in the mirror just in time to see that she was going straight and not turning so I whipped it back to the right and she clipped the back bumper with her headlight. Lucky no major damage, my bumper has some plastic from the headlight on it and she lost the headlight and side light. Told her it was a turn lane and she said she thought it was to turn left at the next corner not the one where we were waiting at. Thats it I am going to get another bar and put on so people will stay away from the truck.

 

lol Rollie you seem to attract lil ole ladies first one runs you off the road and now one hits you....

 

And just think I was riding in that truck last night. I could have been killed! Oh crap, I think I just admitted to riding in a red truck.

 

Yes you did Tony. And I see i the Lodging thread you said it took you 30 minutes to get to the Woodlands. In the RED truck yesterday we did it in 20. LOL

 

What I meant to say was in a 5.4 truck you can make it in 20 minutes. A 4.6 truck might take you 30. Red trucks without bull bars might take longer becuase they seem to be accident magnenets.

Anyways glad no one was hurt and your truck wasn't seriously damaged.

 

Yep, get that back together. If it'll keep it any safer put two or three on it. Good news everyone is OK. Everything else can be replaced.

 

Your right about the Bull Bar. I don't know if people see the 200lbs front bumper or if they see the rest of the truck and can tell I don't care about body damage lol

Duane
Southeast Kansas Coordinator

 

Get that sucker back on there, and quick!

It never ceases to amaze me the stupidity of some of the drivers out there...just waiting to mess up your stuff, when you least expect it. Kinda like the time the Stupid Honda driver BACKED up into my front bumper at a stoplight, whazzup with that? I mean really, cmon the dude must have just put the crack pipe down or something?

 

Ain't that the truth. What are these people thinking anyway? Or should I say not thinking. How does anyone backup at a stop light. LOL

 

Back home i had a guy "bump" me at a red light, then he had the guts to try and convince me my truck rolled BACK into his car, I still don't know if he was just trying to get out of it or if he really was that stupid that he didn't know what happened lol

Duane
Southeast Kansas Coordinator

 

I think it's because there's so many red trucks around that nobody sees them unless something stands out, like a big black bull bar. Now, something white, or gray, or green, or some combination of those three, stands out a little, and everyone can see it.

 

Ok I was just waiting for someone to come up with something like that Mike. LOL

 

I really don't think we have a post in our chapter that doesn't involve White, Red, or Gerbils lol. Damn were dedicated rofl

Duane
Southeast Kansas Coordinator

 

Rollie I'm surprised that anyone in Manhattan would drive that way!!! It must have been someone from out of town. Yeah Right! Manhattan has its special drivers. You never want to go into the intersection here after the light turns green until you look both ways to see who is still trying to make the light. Yellow here means you don't have to stop until it is red. If you stop on yellow at least two or three vehicles behind you will try to rear end you because they were going to make the light too. It's bad enough at times that one feels almost like driving a Dodge or Chebbie just to keep the Ford nice. Well I haven't stooped that low yet. Glad it wasn't worse.

Del

 

Glad you and yours are OK. Little old ladies are the cause of 90% of my road rage.