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johnofnewhaven

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I was coming out of a steel mill today follow my drivers in trucks I bought and this was stuck under the over pass. NO this is NOT my driver or truck!!! It was clearly marked 12' 7" with extra warrning signs! Just don't get it. But I did stop on the way back and looked at a Ford 5000 for sale.
 
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Even letting all of the air out of the tires, that will still be a tight sqweeeeak. This video, they now have flashing lights, turn your truck trafic lites, and STILL they get one now and then.
low bridge.
 
Got one of those deals going on right now in a little village near my house in western NY. Railroad bridge in the middle of town is too low for most semi's and one today found out. There other similar bridges around the area and all are clearly marked for height. Don't know what truck drivers are thinking when they try it anyway.
 
Truck gets stuck under a low bridge-cop pulls up asked the trucker:truck get stuck? Nope,delivering this bridge and I...ran out of gas......here's your sign lol
 
Friend of mine is a rr bridge inspector.makes 3-4 hours easy overtime every time a truck hits this one bridge we have! He has to check it even though there's not usually any damage
 
Maybe there are not enough low bridges left to keep there attention. There used to be two low bridges on I-64 in St.Louis MO,they have been gone for years.
 
My old boss told the story about his father that drove out of South Bend , IN. He left on Sunday night and drove I think to Texas exchanging trailers from terminal to terminal down and back arriving back home on Friday. One Friday he stuck a trailer under the same underpass he cleared on Sunday. Seems like they put down a new layer of asphalt and he was the first truck to test it. Cannot make this stuff up! joe
 
Those dug under passes get a lot of them. The truckers are within legal/posted limits, BUT the length of the dug out road bed isn't long enough to accommodate the overall wheel bases of todays rigs. Basic geometry!!!
Loren
 
truckers have no idea of the height of there rig--in every bridge hit i investigated and ask the trucker the height of his rig he could only guess. I submitted testimony to the select committee investigating bridge hits in New York State and they are considering a law mandating the driver has to measure the hight
 
Reminds me of the story of the farmer whose mule wouldn't go in the barn- his ears hit the doorway and he would stop.

The farmer took a piece of chalk and carefully traced around the ears. He then took a saw and was engaged in cutting out two notches when his neighbor stopped by.

After hearing about the problem and the solution, the neighbor said, "Why not just take a shovel and dig out some dirt below?" "You dummy, the farmer replied, it's his ears that are too long, not his legs!"
 
Even if the driver knows the height of his truck, most of the bridges in NY are posted much lower than they really are. Typically, they are posted a foot lower than actual clearance.
Standard height on box vans, reefers, and tanks is 13' 6". Flatbeds can be almost anything depending on what is loaded on them.
It is the driver's responsibility to know the height of his rig., That is one of the first things that they tell you during orientation when you are hired as a driver. Topping a trailer is generally grounds for immediate dismissal.
New York is the exception to everything. Typically, a 13' 6" tall truck can easily fit under a bridge in New York that is posted at 12'4". Every place else posts actual clearance.
 
Last summer, there was a kid in a dump truck hot dogging it with the box not all the way down. He tried to go under a RR trestle that was 10'8". He hit it hard enough to rip the box off the truck and move the rails about 18". I'm thinking that was a wild ride.
It took them about 2 weeks to get that line open again. Funny how you don't sleep well because the trains aren't running, and you miss hearing them. I know i'm not sleeping well if I hear them. Sometimes I ask my wife "did the trains run last night?" She answers yep, 4 times like normal.
Tim in OR
 
Agreed ,,. And then it gets repaved a couple times and the signs are not recalibrated ,.. sure dont want to add more burdensome rules to a poor truck driver LIFE ,.. but ,that could help ,. AndIf the Dispatcher Had That info readily Available at HIS OWN DESK COMPTER that Would be a nice help too ,,.. but golly just imagine, the driver chose to go a certain way,for convenience sake and disregarded the dispatchers correct instructions ,,..and Got STUCK,.He JUst as well walk off into the cold northwoods in his underwear..
 
(quoted from post at 18:02:00 01/26/18) truckers have no idea of the height of there rig--in every bridge hit i investigated and ask the trucker the height of his rig he could only guess. I submitted testimony to the select committee investigating bridge hits in New York State and they are considering a law mandating the driver has to measure the hight
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When I got my truck I measured it and put the measurement on the inside of the cab by the door with a sharpie. Fortunately I have never forgotten to Lower the body. It would be about 25 feet with it up.
 
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