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Not bike related but found this video interesting. A low bridge that had so many trucks hit it, someone decided to set up some webcams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PkS6...layer_embedded

I've actually seen some from this one before... The one at about 43 seconds was really lucky! And the tow truck driver did a good job, he must be used to that location...

I know they have flashing lights setup but they obviously need more warning devices further from the bridge. :?

I drive big trucks and that is always a concern. It normaly happens to guys when a driver is lost or trying to follow poor directions and gets so focused on finding a place that they forget to look up. I'll admit, I took out a powerline once.

Honestly, my biggest fear is getting in a accident where I kill somebody. Anything else, I can handle.

Yep that sums it up pretty well.

I've hit power lines but never torn any of them down.

How much clearance does a tall truck need? It seems they could avoid a lot of damage to the bridge, and the vehicles, if they raised that bride a foot or two. ;)

Spud :)

I think 14 feet will clear just about everything.

My truck would clear that unloaded, but some of the equipment I hauled would not. I was very aware of my height limitations when loaded.

12 ft would have made it for most of those trucks.
Spud, the problem as I see it, is thats a train track. In order to raise the bridge, you must raise a large amount of track on either side of the bridge as well to keep the grade as level as possible.

noticed that a lot of the trucks were rentals too....

No CDL needed for those either.

13' 6" is standard Van or Reefer Height. Not sure what the height of those trucks were, but most in town trucks stay under 12' 8".

Sometimes on bridges like that, they will scrape out the bottom lower, however then flooding is a concern.

It's a funny post, maybe not to those drivers but in 5 years every mess up is funny. Well maybe not EVERY mess up, but a lot of them.

There was a courior company across the parking lot from where I used to work. They bought 2 little bob tail trucks. Soon, the right front corner of one of the boxes was peeled back about a quarter of the way back. A couple of weeks later they had it fixed. Then the truck came back with most of the top pulled off from a similar incident. This time the truck was gone abot 2 months. It finally showed back up with what looked like a new box on it. The very next day I looked across the parking lot to see that truck turning into the parking lot with what looked like a 12" diameter tree limb still impaled ito the roof of the truck. Someone took a chainsaw and cut the limb to free the truck. Soon after both trucks were gone for good.

Be easier if they just dug the street down about a foot. Solve all those pesky truck problems.