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On his driving record. This mishap will cost a pretty penny. Truck caught the power lines and broke at least 4 poles that I saw and had two others leaning pretty bad. Cops and power company there all day and night.
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Then the company will fight that tooth and nail. They will blame it on the power or phone company for not having the wire high enough.

If this happens over a road way; cable company is bad about hanging wires to low; the company will flat out refuse to pay for damages.
 
BTDT a few times. First case, school access, they raised driveway about a foot & paved it during summer. My first trip in after project tore down phone, TV cable & power lines, broke off 3 or 4 poles. School guy really upset, hadn't gotten around to raising the lines. Cop measured trailer, told school guy, Guess what, you owe for damage to truck, legal height with 4 inches to spare.
Second case, hooked drop wire driving through alley, pulled pole down onto tractor roof. Same result. Rotted pole leaned over let drop wire sag, phone company paid to get body work down on tractor cab.

willie
 
Looking at the picture it would look like driver error but being an electrical apprentice there are minimum height requirements for overhead power lines. Also haven driven big trucks before the trailer looks like a normal height judging by the air dam on the roof of the truck. Maybe he/she should have gotten out and looked before going under if they were noticeably too low but the lines should have cleared the trailer had they been at a legal height.
 
Those poles look like they've been there since the Rural Electrification Act.

Gotta love power companies. They have replaced the poles at my place in town TWICE in the 15 years I've been there. Out in the rural areas, 80 year old poles? NO PROBLEM!
 


One of my hay fields had utility lines crossing it My bale wagon would not fit under them in one small area. I considered it my responsibility to rake the hay out from under them and go around with the baler. My friend's excavation company had a new tri-axle driver pull out of the site with his body up. He took SIX poles down before he ran out of gears to shift down to. My friend told me that they don't get involved with talking to the owner of the wires. It is just an insurance expense.
 
The height requirement are different between where vehicles are expected, roads driveways ect. , and open fields. I wouldn't expect a box trailer to be over height. Looks like cable wires.
 
Looks to me like it's another case of
corporate greed to me. You know the
drill: Depreciation is not a real
expense. (It's only a tax write-off so we
can make more money for the
owners/investors!) Don't have to make
repairs as stuff weares out. It'll last
as long as I am in charge. That way I'll
get a better golden parachute when I
retire.
 
Good luck getting the Frt. Company to pay anything. Lines are required to be over 13'6" high and that trailer is not over 13 6. The driver will also be off the hook as long as he was making a delivery and told to be their.

Sometimes in hot weather lines will sag some resulting in them being too low.
 
What I understand the wire can be as low as 12' above a private drive. The truck is certainly taller than that so it would be his fault for not paying attention. Must have been reading a text message.
 


Yes, it is the driver's fault. I don't know that it will go on a driving record since he was not on a public road. Double R that is very funny that he is not responsible because he was told where to go. That is like saying that if the company wants him to drive correctly they have to put someone in the cab with him.
 
I had a tractor trailer driver come roaring down my driveway 2 years ago making a delivery, took all my overhead lines down at once. It was more than obvious he didn't have the clearance as he was snapping off 4 inch branches on his way in. Funny thing is the driver called me before arriving and asked if there was room for him to turn around, I said yes but clearance is the issue. The freight company told me to call a local electrician and have them bill the company, they did and the well known freight company paid it. The driver admitted to me that it was his 3rd incident within 1 year and he fully expected to be fired, I couldn't help but think that was a good thing.
 
I had a truss delivery here and the semi driver was gonna back out of my 1/4 mile lane with an "S" curve and a blind hill crest. I told him to pull out in my hay field and make a big circle - I'd watch to make sure he would clear the triplex line to my shop. He cleared the line by about 4 inches pulling into the field and I walked away. When he came out of the field, he lacked about 4 inches getting under it and tore the conduit and everything down on the shop. He jumped out with his insurance info in hand and I waved him off. It was more my fault than it was his fault - I should have been watching. There was a little hump in the yard under that service wire, and somehow it let him squeak under going in, but it raised him up enough to snag it going out.

I buried a new line to the shop the next day - something I had been wanting to do for several years.
 
(quoted from post at 15:06:32 06/30/20) Of all possible reasons what would make you determine "mist been texting or reading text"?
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Wilson stop and think for a minute.
 
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