Got caught up in some traffic on my way to SC this evening and rear ended somebody with the ol' K30. Tweaked my Warn classic bumper a little, but it and the M12000 seem to be fine.
He was in a 95 Dodge reg cab, short bed, 2wd...with 600,000 miles on it! I hit it in the middle of the tailgate in the body moulding. Didn't touch the rear bumper or either tail light. Crunched up the RH bed side above the tire. Hopefully he can grab a bed, tail gate, and rear bumper while he's at it (his was rusted to hell, but the rest of the truck was in surprisinly good shape)...but I feel like they're going to just write it off.
Obviously, it's not worth much...but my man has kept this truck up since 1996 and has amassed 600,000 miles. As a fellow truck guy, I know he loves the truck and I hope they'll just cut him a little check and let him fix it. I did make sure to tell him that he has the right to refuse letting them total it since they certainly don't own it, he does, but they'll probably value it pretty low, honestly.
BTW, everyone is fine. We both drove to our destinations afterward. The guy in front of me cut in front of me, we went through an intersection, then he darted out of the lane and left me with a lane of stopped traffic that I couldn't see. I locked up the 40s, but it wasn't quite enough in the amount of time I had. I was probably going 40.
On a lighter note, knocked out a solid 19mpg on the ride down. I will absolutely NOT be taking Hwy 17 on my way home. I'll run 70-75 on I95 and let everybody go around me. To hell with all the speed limit changes, two lane roads that are terribly paved/lack thereof, stop lights, 200 turns, going through twenty towns, and slow ass big rigs holding up traffic for miles.
