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oh my NO not really "liberallunacy"!

Ever get behind a truck that tosses a pebble at your windshield? That's what it's like when you don't clear off the top off the cars, the snow - sometimes ice flies off the top when the cars get going and it hits the windshields of the cars behind them. It's very dangerous!

When I lived there, I saw the ice coming off the tops of busses & trucks on the highway - and I thanked GOD I wasn't behind them when it happened.

Sad to think it's going to take a law to make people do what should be considered common sense, though!

So, I guess we shut down all truck traffic north of the Mason-Dixon line after, say thanksgiving? Or, are we, in a quest to live an entirely hazard free life, to legislate that snow/ice cannot accumulate on top of any truck or bus?

What do you expect drivers to do, climb on top of their rigs and shovel the danged things off? (Does this mean I get to claim workers comp when I fall through the sheet metal roof?) I always thought that northerners were a hardy, thoughtful lot, who understood that added hazards of winter driving and acted accordingly.

What a pitty that I find out there are whiners, and other "THERE OUGHTTA BE A LAW!!" types who hoist the nanny-government flag when it is THEIR ox being gored.

(Note, this is not being directed at you, specifically, but at those who feel this law is in any way justified.)

One day on my commute to the Boston area several hours after a snow/ice storm I witnessesd the following:

A truck with snow and ice piled so high on the semi-trailer passing under an overpass and scraped all of the load on several passenger vehicles that skidded and braked crashing into a guard rail and another car in an attempt to avoid death from the ice crashing through their windshields. I was about 400 yards behind them doing about 55 where the truck passed me at about 80 and seeing the truck I slowed down in advance of the certain danger about to happen.

Another storm, I passed a couple of cars with their windshields smashed and with a truck pulled over near them. I'm not sure if the driver of the truck saw what happened in front of him and pulled over to offer help but it was certain it was from a truck that had a load of ice on the roof.

At construction sites in England, no dirt hauler can leave the site unless it is pressure washed to rid it of loose material. In Massachusetts, the exits about 16 miles north of Boston on Rt. 93 are the northern end of the dirt haulers moving construction material to Boston every day. There is a berm of sand and gravel along a four lane road all of the way caused by crap falling off and out continuously along the route. There are cars pulled over every week because base ball sized rocks bounce out and smash them. But in Massachusetts apparently it is OK because since the auto insurance industry is directed by the corrupt Democrat legislature, and they mandate no deductible mandatory glass replacement, that for years the trucking industry was off limits with regard to damage caused by dangerous practices.