Re: Lazy A** Couldn't Park and Walk-Had to Use the Drive Thru
[Re: moparx]
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07/12/22 04:52 PM
07/12/22 04:52 PM
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We have a train bridge in our area where the road is 9 ft to the beam, drops down under then up the other side. Tandem dump trucks, cement trucks, box cube vans, you name it, have smashed into that bridge. Has Many signs and a hanging chains type affair to hit the truck a out 30 ft before the bridge and they still don’t stop. The other bad part is there’s a creek that goes under the roadway and after a hard rain it could be 3-4 ft deep, cars still TRY to go thru and flood out. Every time the bridge is hit track has to be shut down for inspection and this is the main corridor on the eastern seaboard. This has been going on since cars-trucks were first made in early 1900. Convenient cut thru l, about 9 miles around the other way.
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Re: Lazy A** Couldn't Park and Walk-Had to Use the Drive Thru
[Re: forphorty]
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07/12/22 09:48 PM
07/12/22 09:48 PM
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Drunk, drugs, or mentally ill or combination. Or just a typical Ford owner. Good thing he didn't have a real truck [ Dodge with a Cummins ] he would've hurt himself.
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Re: Lazy A** Couldn't Park and Walk-Had to Use the Drive Thru
[Re: not_a_charger]
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07/12/22 11:36 PM
07/12/22 11:36 PM
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I'd like to see the insurance claim !! I've handled claims with that exact scenario. Not cheap at all, especially if the restaurant has high drive-through traffic. The loss of revenue can easily exceed the cost of the repairs to the building if you have to shut down their drive through. I've found that whenever possible, it's cheaper to pay the contractor an off-hours premium to have them do the work on overnights than it is to pay the restaurant owner for lost revenue. It's also much less hassle to calculate. "Oh, it's $x dollars? How much to fix it between 10pm-6am?" vs. rummaging through accounting documents and spreadsheets. A lot of years ago, my wife and I came out of our local Cracker Barrel and heard this awful screaching noise. It would stop for a minute, then start up again. She finally spotted the culprit. It was a young woman driving a big u haul truck that had tried to go through the Steak and Shake drive thru a couple of lots over. She had it stuck pretty good. Finally, an older man came and got in the truck and just pulled it on out, tearing down the big red awning in the process. Now the awning is on the ground and the top of the truck is torn up. I wondered at the time, who's insurance is paying for this?.
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Re: Lazy A** Couldn't Park and Walk-Had to Use the Drive Thru
[Re: BTBelvedere]
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07/13/22 06:21 AM
07/13/22 06:21 AM
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The insurance company for the renter of the truck would be responsible for the truck damage, and for the building damage. If the renter didn't have enough liability coverage to pay the full damages to the building, the insurer of driver of the truck (if different from the renter of the truck) would also likely kick in. If the driver/renter was the same person, then potentially U-Haul's insurance would end up involved.
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