A week ago, driving down a gravel road to my hunting lease, my back windshield was shattered presumably by a rock. When I got to my hunting lease, a 1 inch in diameter rock was sitting on top of the gap between the cab and bed of the truck. Sunday, I washed my truck and noticed about 4 small scratches on the tailgate and looks to me like they are from rocks also. What I think is happening is, while pulling my trailer, rocks are hitting the trailer and bouncing back up to the truck. I have mud flaps and fender flares installed on the truck so I am not sure what else to do. Does anyone else have this problem while pulling a trailer? I never ride with my tailgate down either. My utility trailer is made out of square tubing so there are quite a few good flat spots for rocks to hit and bounce towards the truck. Just not sure what exactly I can do about it.

Any thoughts?

 

https://www.etrailer.com/Mud-Flaps/R...r/RM-4400.html
https://www.etrailer.com/Mud-Flaps/R.../ERT00108.html

 

get some of these sexy flaps

 

Trailer wheels throwing rocks?




Pecked out on my iPhone.

 

No you can see on the trailer where the rocks are hitting it and knocking paint off. And to the other two posts, I can't imagine driving around with those unless I had a travel trailer. More than likely I'm just going to buy some atv ramps and start putting the atv in the bed of my truck. I do like to use the bed of my truck though for gear, dead deer, etc. though so i'm just going to have to sit on it for a while.

 

How fast are you going? I drive on gravel, sometimes pulling my camper, or UTV Trailer, and don't get these issues, but I keep my speed on gravel under 30mph.

and - I most definitely, do my best not to spiln the wheels taking off.

Another option is build a mounting rail across the front of the trailer, and suspend a loose hanging rubber blanket across the front.

 

You have to have splash guards when pulling a trailer on gravel. Been there, done that. The worst I've seen is a co worker pulling a two jetski trailer on a gravel road down to the lake. He learned the hard way about rocks when he ended up with a 3/4 inch hole in the nose of one of the skis.

I don't buy trucks with painted bumpers anymore. 40,000 miles on my 2010 and the front bumper looked like it had been sand blasted.

 

I also stay under 30. The last time I was out there and unfortunately had a rock hit my back windshield, I was doing around 30 but it was a fairly packed portion of dirt road. When it becomes looser, I slow down to about 20.

 

I do have mud guards but it's still not getting 100% of the rocks coming off of the tires obviously. Agree 100% about the painted bumper and that is also why I only stick to chrome.

 

Try some large pipe insulation or a pool noodle, cable zip tied to the trailer rail... might not stop the tailgate scratches but I would think it would keep your window from getting busted out.