If it's road debris you are not liable. If it come off your truck you are.

Yep. Don't matter where it bounces. If it come off the truck it's liability.

That's what they're supposed to do.

But if you hit a cow it's your fault. Except in Arizona.

if you hit a cow in the road in Alabama no one owns THAT cow....

I don't tailgate trucks. Read what I said. There are times the truck driver puts his ass right in front of you and you have no control over it.

Funniest thing I've seen like this was going to the Atlanta airport. One ton pulls onto the interstate pulling a loaded cattle trailer and is running about 85. Traffic is heavy. A older blond in a small Mercedes pulls up and tailgates the cattle trailer. Until the cows start pissing. One let fly and two more got her before she could change lanes. She was in a convertible, but the top was up.

Knowing and doing this after you get loaded is the difference in a good employee and just another driver, and he saves everyone time and money.
If the rock hits the road it’s a road hazard.

That would be grand to see!!

I used to haul cattle. I always had to load the cows face first because I drove so fast that if they put them butt first the wind would rip the hide right off them.

I had a big rock fall out of a truck in front of me once that landed on the sunroof. Sounded like a bomb going off. Trucking company told me it must have kicked up from the tires and was road hazard. I asked how would it have hit the sunroof if it had come off the road. They came back and basically told me to prove it came off their truck, so me and my insurance company got to pay for it.

Had a dump truck pass me on 85 several years ago that was dribbling gravel out of the back of the truck. Broke my windshield in 3 places and pockmarked my bumper and side mirror. Everyone he passed was getting peppered. I stayed well behind him until he got off on an exit and passed him and blocked him in. He gets out fussing and cussing I told him to go check his tail gate that he had just caused many thousands of dollars worth of damage to a bunch of cars. While I was videoing the stream of gravel drizzling from the partially opened gate there must have been 20 cars pull up to get the name and number off the guys truck and their own video proof of the half open tailgate. Yeah they paid for that one.

I heard that story twice. When I showed up in person and explained it, in my special personal way, they both agreed to pay for it.

No doubt

Will it truck pass a dot inspection ? Is the seal on the tailgate good do u have correct length mudflaps. Do u have a 50 ft warning sticker in visible sight on the tailgate