I'm curious if this is a Pennsylvania thing or if everybody that has one of our trucks that is used as a daily driver has a damaged or chipped windshield?

 

Mine's cracked, in CA.

 

They used to chip seal the roads every year in Phoenix, but since they quit doing that a few years ago, many a windshield has been spared. The freeways and all the belly loaders and dump trucks are brutal though...Mark

 

I even have had an acorn bust one of mine. My 92 has 2 stone chips in it. I have a couple dump trucks and yes, they will burp a little stone out once and a while. The edge of the body where the tailgates ride gets bent and won't seal as good as a new one. If it makes you feel any better, I have 1 dump truck with a busted windshield too.

 

In my area, rock chipped windshields are prety common. I'v been fortunate with mine, no chips in 5 years. Yea dump trucks can drop rock somtimes. I just give them plenty of room. I haul stuff sometimes with my flat bed, i hate it when a nice shiny new car gets rite behind me lol. Im careful to keep stuff from falling out though.

Also theres always gravel where dirt roads meets the highway.

Just remembered, I did recently acquire a small chip on the passenger side

 

It just seemed a bit odd that EVERY Dodge truck that I currently own or have ever owned has had a windshield fracture.

 

It's not a PA thing..... It's the angle of the windshield that can be attributed to the cracks.

IMO...

The windshields in cars and trucks that are more angled away from vertical, deflect the stones that hit them. Our trucks, along with just about every other truck I've ever owned (fords and chevy back in the day) all had their windshields crack. My toyota.... Never. because it's angled the rocks / stones bounce off.

 

hey-Hey!!!,
Up here in MI it appears it is common enough that shopping centers will hire a guy to sit in the lot and repair all commers for free just to get them in the gate.
cheers,
Douglas

 

Mind was damaged from a good sized rock, I need to get the windshield replaced one i've the days, only $110 out the for from safelite in billings

 

Need an option that says "Nothing wrong with my windshield".

Not ever had a crack or a replacement windshield.

Now I bet you are all going to JINX me for that !

 

of 4 vehicles they all but one have chips or cracks from chips. The one that doesn't have a chip yet is because I had to replace it this year because of an ignorant semi driver doing 60mph on dry pavement with chains on. Needless to say a piece of chain just about come through the windshield. It was cracked/chipped prior but wasn't terrible.

 

Hey I figured out how to eliminate the jinx and worry - Just stop by and we can swap yours for one that already pre-chipped!!

 

The wife's truck's previous owner was a mechanic for an Eastern KY coal-mining operation.

Needless to say, there are no less than four star-burst chips scattered around the outer perimeters of that glass; no doubt from big chunks of coal flying over the side-boards of big old tri-axle Macks on narrow winding roads.

Luckily, none of these are in the normal viewing area.

My old 1978 K20 4x4, that has seen more hard-core treatment than most and has had flying boulders glance off and roll across the glass, at well over 400,000-miles STILL has the original glass.

When my windshield guy was installing glass #8 (or is it #9??) in my Ford truck, I asked him why the least tiny chip in the Ford glass almost immediately spread and ran all across in several directions, whereas the old Chevy and the Dodges all had old nicks and stars that never spread any bigger .

He said he could show me better than tell me, as he had a new glass for both a Dodge and a Chevy on the truck that day.

The 1985 Ford glass was hardly an eighth-inch thick.

The 1973-93 Dodge glass was about 5/16 thick.

And, the 1973-87 GM glass was the thickest at nearly 1/2-inch thick.

 

I have had a dozen windshields put in this thing I live near alot of rock quarries ... need i say more , one time I had a new windshield put in from rock damage and on the way home a wild turkey flew across the road and hit the windshield on the pass side and knocked it right out of the opening and on to 2 of my kids also ripped the rams head off luckily the kids didn't get any glass in there eyes.

 

When I lived in Northwestern Montana (they use gravel, not salt) a vehicle without a broken winshield was a new one, on the lot!
Not REALLY that bad, but close. There, you just lived with it, here in Commiefornia, anything in the "drivers line of sight" is subject to a ticket, and a crack ANYWHERE can get you one.
I hate this place.
My Dually received a new windshield last summer.