Right here in the NC Triangle. The Gregson Street underpass in Durham, NC. The drivers get a nice fat ticket for ignoring the warning, complete with a fine, costs and points on their CDL. If the bridge gets damaged (it has), a huge bill for repairs and for lost railroad revenue during the repairs. It has been raised to 12'8" as of late 2019 but... still they come.
Full time RVer here. My frog-hair height is 13’2”. I will not touch anything less than 13”5”. Trust me there are/is lots of low clearance shit out there. But we now have awesome tools such as, upgraded GPS, clearance maps, low clearance travel books, state web sites, hell Rand McNally has a special atlas for truckers thats has all the low shit listed. There is no excuse. Do your map recon of your route, it’s not that fookin hard now-a-daz. See ya
I don't know why rental truck companies don't have a decal on the top of the windshield with the ruck height (+6"). A CDL driver should know how tall his truck is.
I stopped and had to back out of Ceazer Chaves in Austin at the start of rush hour (thanks SIRI) when I saw the height of the bridge going under Lamar saying 12' 8" in my 13' truck. I probably could have made it because that was on the low side of the arc...... but I didn't want to be fired that day.
We had one of those locally that was removed around twenty years ago. Worst story I heard was from a highway worker that had to clean up what was left of the top row of chickens.
There is a 9'-6" clearance bridge just 2 miles from the house, with BIG warning signs 2 miles in the other direction stating low clearance etc There is always a pile of something laying around that got raked off. My favorite is the RV air conditioners, they just explode.
My thought on watching this was that the design of the bridge was the problem. The trucks affected were all pretty much the same height, so the bridge being just slightly lower than the height of the majority of trucks on the road is really the stupid part. But then if they raised the height of the bridge and there are still trucks crashing into it then someone didn't bother to do any research into the height of the trucks that are likely to need to pass under it on a normal day.
The one I like has a sign suspended over the roadway just before the last cross-street before the bridge: "If you hit this sign, you'll hit that bridge."
Idiocy exists in all occupations. Regardless of entry fees
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ReplyDeleteRight here in the NC Triangle. The Gregson Street underpass in Durham, NC. The drivers get a nice fat ticket for ignoring the warning, complete with a fine, costs and points on their CDL. If the bridge gets damaged (it has), a huge bill for repairs and for lost railroad revenue during the repairs.
ReplyDeleteIt has been raised to 12'8" as of late 2019 but... still they come.
Full time RVer here. My frog-hair height is 13’2”. I will not touch anything less than 13”5”. Trust me there are/is lots of low clearance shit out there. But we now have awesome tools such as, upgraded GPS, clearance maps, low clearance travel books, state web sites, hell Rand McNally has a special atlas for truckers thats has all the low shit listed. There is no excuse. Do your map recon of your route, it’s not that fookin hard now-a-daz. See ya
ReplyDeleteI don't know why rental truck companies don't have a decal on the top of the windshield with the ruck height (+6").
ReplyDeleteA CDL driver should know how tall his truck is.
I stopped and had to back out of Ceazer Chaves in Austin at the start of rush hour (thanks SIRI) when I saw the height of the bridge going under Lamar saying 12' 8" in my 13' truck.
I probably could have made it because that was on the low side of the arc...... but I didn't want to be fired that day.
We had one of those locally that was removed around twenty years ago. Worst story I heard was from a highway worker that had to clean up what was left of the top row of chickens.
ReplyDeleteThere is a 9'-6" clearance bridge just 2 miles from the house, with BIG warning signs 2 miles in the other direction stating low clearance etc There is always a pile of something laying around that got raked off. My favorite is the RV air conditioners, they just explode.
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My thought on watching this was that the design of the bridge was the problem. The trucks affected were all pretty much the same height, so the bridge being just slightly lower than the height of the majority of trucks on the road is really the stupid part. But then if they raised the height of the bridge and there are still trucks crashing into it then someone didn't bother to do any research into the height of the trucks that are likely to need to pass under it on a normal day.
ReplyDeleteThe one I like has a sign suspended over the roadway just before the last cross-street before the bridge:
ReplyDelete"If you hit this sign, you'll hit that bridge."
For further amusement, the bridge has an evil little brother - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-UugI0JoA .
ReplyDeleteI love that 11foot8.com is a thing that actually exists.
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