OY: rear ended the other day, pick-em-up trucks are the greatest! Options

[Sammy]

I got tagged in the rear a couple days ago on the 5 fwy (as if I didn't have enough things to worry about).
Traffic was very heavy, I was going around 10 mph when WAM!
We pulled over to the side and I first say the toyota small car that hit me, darn near totalled. Big hole in the bumper where my hitch went through, bumper smashed in, hood and fenders buckled, windshield cracked etc.

I took a long look at the back of my Toyota tundra pick-em-up, nope, nothing. Not a scratch, dent, ding anywhere. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
Evidently the trailer hitch and reciever took the whole hit and transfered all the energy to my frame.
I'm gonna get it on a rack to check for frame straightness and alignment, but that's it. I doubt they'll find anything wrong.

Iffn I was in a modern small car It'd be smashed.
Crumple zones my butt, give me a daily driver with a big strong frame behind me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

[Mueller]

I'm not saying that it's OK that the person rear ended you. It was obviously their fault, but if you're not towing something, why do you need the trailer hitch and everything on your truck? What's it take, like 30 seconds to yank the pin and put the hitch in the trunk or behind the seat? Yeah, it caused less damage to your truck and that's cool for you, but it caused 3+ times as much damage to the car that hit you. Sure, you're first thought is, "Screw that guy, he shouldn't have hit me." But since insurance is going to pay for it, they spread the cost around and everyone's rates take the hit.

Its just a pet peeve of mine. I'm a cheap sunovabich and don't like having to pay more of my hard earned money for the costly, inconsiderate habits of others. Not saying you're doing it on purpose to get me, I know you're not.....are you?  

Bumpers are designed to hit bumpers so that the impact can be distributed more evenly, minimizing the total damage. But when you hit a vehicle with for all intents and purposes a steel spike on the back, the bumper is useless.

are you living in the real world??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

you must not own a pickup truck, the bumper is attached directly to the frame, damage will occur to both vehicles, in fact the truck has more of a chance to have more expensive repairs if the frame gets tweaked which is highly likely

last year I was rear ended in my truck, we had removed the trailer hitch and installed a cover...some dumb broad hit us, and then backed up and drove away......
hit and run...now had my trailer hitch been on, we might have had a chance to catch her and lower my insurance rate....why did our insurance go up??? We were in Texas, we live in California, even with her plate ID, all the police did was send them a letter "asking" for them to turn themselves in....we get charged by the insurance company 'cause basicly we have no proof that we got rear ended.....no witness and the police report does not count due to no witness...like the rear end of my truck just got dented for no reason....