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Aug 20, 2023 10:23 PM
actinginacave
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badgesweedontneednostinkingbadges
At least once a year around Boston. Either on Storrow Drive or at one of several low railway bridges.
ForrestDwellingDonkey
waspentalive
Route planning is even harder.
sieg443130
He thought they were kidding
MrStealUrMeme
You can't park there, mate
Joeybigtimes
FOOK OOOOFFFFFF
DaffydeDick
Rookie driver.
arkthan
i drove a local delivery truck for years, went down one road with no issues many times. one trip i pulled down wires. the phone company had put new wires up but lower than they had been before. you could see the marks from the old wire mounts on the poles. people werent happy but it wasnt my fault.
trulsern
Here everything below 4.5m is to be marked. Anything hanging lower that you pull down is somebody elses problem
myfishtankiscoolerthanyours
Storrowed
HughGRecti0n
Came here to say this.
skippingmyhsreuniontogetdrunkinmydriveway
It happens everywhere. Melbourne, Australia: https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/
BlackCats4ever
Is it truly about reading or more about forgetting hoe much you’re hauling behind you. I empathize :)
NR2K
Onondaga Lake Parkway Bridge crashes Google it .. we have one of those bridges that drivers are blind to as well.
servingmytimeinusersub
And you've never seen a better marked bridge. SO many signs and flashing lights. Double decker bus hit it years ago and killed several people.
NR2K
That's what makes it sad.. outside of a roadblock, there's no stopping the stupid.
Aktrazer
Look up the Onondaga Parkway bridge in Syracuse. Thing gets hit multiple times a year.
NR2K
lol I just posted this 13 minutes ago
Mxlespxles
Jheklstuff
Oof, I'm guessing that trailer is 13'6"
jrredneck
Most likely. Bowever skme say 13'6" but are actually a couple inches shorter so crap like this doesnt happen.
VinnyVeritas
Another victim of the liberal media !
ricpaul
Used to hear a load bang regularly where I worked from a low bridge. Never seen one stuck but plenty touched. One guy was smart: he lowered his load, dragged it behind him under the bridge and lifted it back in place on the other side. Probably not his first rodeo... Was similar to below pic (but dropped even lower): those things have metal rollers, still noisy as hell, but pretty much made to do this over short distances...
Dipsomaniac
Cats2cats
So GPS lied?
javadad60
Spaceman says "Always has."
firesurfer
Who says he used any GPS?
Farbrook
All these underpasses need to have at least a 15 foot clearance.
RaleighJohnson
There is a low bridge next to my work. Railroad got so tired of trucks hitting it and them having to shut it down and inspect it, at least once a month, they installed giant I beams on either side so trucks just hit that first
ruferto
best deterrent i think i saw was a swinging balls thing that bumped the top of the truck a block before it got to the thing it was supposed to protect
DeadeicPrints
Most of these trailers have the height of them written backwards so you can see them in the side mirror ffs.
arocktrucker777
Anyone with a class A should automatically know your 13’6”
crusadurus
Really? thats kinda cool!
SenOfFiveTails
That's usually more of a rental truck thing. However, as a truck driver I can fell you that in the US all standard dryvan trailers are 13'6" tall (Though in the Westernmost states where they are legal, some trailers are 14' tall.)
SenOfFiveTails
Also bridge height is one of the absolute #1 things truck drivers should be aware of. We're trained to pay close attention to all road signage, and bridge heights are often pointed out in particular. (Though that doesn't mean all professional drivers are good or well-trained. We call such drivers steering wheel holders in the industry.)
Lostchild12
I doubt they did any reading.
cylogenix
those 2 inches make all the difference in the world.....
cylogenix
so wake up doctor freeman .... *sssttth* .... wake up and smell the broken box fiberglass from this truck you crashed.
RalphH
The Definitive 11Foot8 Bridge Crash Compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw
Hatrax
I'm thinking every rental truck in that city is roofless by now.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
So many rentals.
gesel
Thats a solid bridge.
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
https://11foot8.com/
Hawkhead
If there is one thing I learned in life is that reading ain’t never taught me nothing.
HawkmanXLII
-Albert Einstein
zim57398
All I know is that I'm passing English and that ain't not good.
hellvis
Yellowbeard!
Hawkhead
Damn, well done.
hellvis
It's one of my favorite movies.
Hawkhead
Not seen it in a very long time, but it is full of classic one liners. “Have you seen Yellowbeard? He is a gruff looking man with a huge yellow beard”
hellvis
Dying's the easy way out. You won't catch me dying. They'll have to kill me before I die! When they stretched me on the rack for a couple of years, I didn't go around dyin' all over the place!
hellvis
Fruit of me loins? I haven't got fruit in me loins! Lice, yes, and proud of 'em, but no fruit!
Daywalker27
ilPino
Ooh, the light has changed to amber, better speed up to get through before the red.
Starbolt81
Ah, the good old can opener
melangemaster42
I love this site.
ZorroMcChuckNorris
Welcome to Durham.
WorfIsMySugarDaddy
Ooh he got tin canned!
DePhyler
It is now.
RaZorHamZteR
Grumposstuff
He thought he would just peel on through.
GSA1386
At least he made the light.
RedWingedBlackbirds
Or... the light 'knew' that truck was going to get jammed up under the bridge and stopped all traffic behind it...
Cats2cats
Wasn’t this a bridge that ended up have a pre warning arch?
PhailRaptor
They finally saved up the money to raise the rail bridge over it, but it's *STILL* can-opening all manner of trucks
psmith00
I wouldn't say it's can-opening the trucks. It's just there. The drivers are the active components and are the one can-opening their truck.
DVSBSTrD
Do the drivers who pull this shit face ANY repercussions?
HappyBanjoGuy
Yes, but they get off on a-peel.
VitaminJay
Hiked up 8", and a warning bar installed, still get new vids.
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IceWeaselX
Well, no. If they pay attention to the warning signs/bar, they *turn* as the sign says. Reroute. In places where they're funneled into a one-way, they stop their trucks, pull over, and call for roadside assistance so they can reverse out of the road without causing a collision.
joot
When this many people run into it, it’s an engineering problem, not a driver problem. At what point is better engineering less expensive than repairing the bridge?
VitaminJay
It's an operator error problem. There's tons of signs saying 'you gotta turn and go elsewhere!' But the American Dream is to stomp the gas, regardless of consequences.
joot
The signs are inadequate, evidently. You can’t keep blaming individuals when it’s obviously a design problem. Or you can — be a concrete-headed dumb ass — and let people keep hitting the bridge over and over and over and over…
Robot31
And an over-height sensor the block before that trips the light red and flashes a "must turn" sign. Now there are videos of over-height vehicles running the red straight into the crash bar.
causality
People this stupid must have a whole string of bad driving violations.
TunnelRat13
Sounds like they need to lower it to 9" to me! When the bridge is at face level pretty sure they'll stop.
thedudeman519
Nah. More meat for the grinder. Someone that needs the money will take the job. The trucking company will get them to drive endless hours no sleep. The Driver then makes rash decisions , does. Cycle continues.
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