Who Lowered the Bridge????

Hay_Man · Apr 26, 2013

Big FiberGlass Tank:

Notice the Pilot Car in front of the Truck. It has a feeler pole to test the bridge height with.........Not to mention the Elevation Sign above...........

paul · Apr 26, 2013

Tough fiberglass if that is a hunk of concrete missing on the
bridge?

I'd guess expecting 16 foot clearance, everyone cruising along
at highway plus speeds, semi a little too close to the pilot car,
and....

Oh, what was that scraping noise, I need to call the trucker!

Followed way to soon with, oh what was that horrible grinding
sound and jerk, why didnt the pickup driver call me?

Paul

Hay_Man · Apr 26, 2013

No concrete on the road, I think it was oily residue from the tank sprayed up somehow in the "explosion" of the impact........

twostepn2001 · Apr 26, 2013

Where did that happen Hay Man?

Hay_Man · Apr 26, 2013

Happened in Midland, Texas. Yesterday.

old · Apr 26, 2013

Novice truck driver??? A good truck driver should know how tall his load is so that does not happen. Bet he gets a number of tickets from that one

Old-F20 · Apr 26, 2013

if you look at the other bridge you can see where it has a repair section already. around here a few bridges that have been hit have been fixed then they put a black netting around it so if the 'repair' fails it wont fall on the road. looks like this may be the scenario on this bridge

Hay_Man · Apr 26, 2013

Yep there's been several hits right in there that I know of. One was a big pump jack. Big heavy weights and iron parts all over the road......

rrlund · Apr 26, 2013

If you want to watch that happen all day long,check out
this site

Dick2 · Apr 26, 2013

Maybe next time he'll measure the load and read the sign.

Texasmark1 · Apr 26, 2013

15-9 is a high bridge. We have a 13-4 locally on a TX. State
highway.

Mark.

Hay_Man · Apr 26, 2013

Yep, all those oilfield haulers haul some tall loads, and seem to not know how to drop a tape on it......one guy was telling me they are putting trucks on the road with non-cdl drivers in them, because the demand is so high for the truck to roll.......Keeps these DOT Cops busy.........

Anonymous-0 · Apr 26, 2013

I had a job to do on ritzy 5th avenue, in thriving downtown
Woodwardville (odenton), on Thursday this week. I took my
surveyor's pole, and measured my lawnmower (enclosed) trailer.
Then I measured the amtrak bridge. Had 2-3 " to spare. Stopped
busy traffic, to crawl up to take a picture, of the clearance. Dam
train went over, and I think I shipped my pants to BWI!!!

Ron in NS · Apr 26, 2013

There's a heap o' East Indian truck drivers out west. They don't worry about overpasses here either. They've never seen them where they caught a boat from.....

old-9 · Apr 26, 2013

True story, my friend's dad drove a route from Indiana to texas every week. He would drop a trailor pick up another and relay all the way down and back. One day on his return to home town he took off the top of the trailor. The same underpass he drove under for years. Seems that that week a new layer of asphalt was put down. And he was the first to test it. joe

JML755 · Apr 26, 2013

(quoted from post at 19:55:31 04/26/13) True story, my friend's dad drove a route from Indiana to texas every week. He would drop a trailor pick up another and relay all the way down and back. One day on his return to home town he took off the top of the trailor. The same underpass he drove under for years. Seems that that week a new layer of asphalt was put down. And he was the first to test it. joe

yup, saw that happen a couple of years ago on I-94 in Detroit. Later, noticed that DOT started scraping down the old pavement underneath bridges in some spots.

moresmoke · Apr 27, 2013

There's are couple overpasses in Detroit that are
signed at 13-7. It took me a couple trips to figure
out the pinging I heard was the CB antennas hitting!

Texasmark1 · May 2, 2013

I had a good friend at work killed by just such an oil rig truck.
They were on US 75 in Dallas, N. bound. Truck was in the right
land and he was the passenger in a car in the left lane
overtaking the truck.

The truck's load, a pipe stand of some sort, square and tall, hit
the bridge and fell onto the car crushing him.

The overpasses were quite low at the time and were curved with
the right lane, where the truck was, the lowest. They have since
upgraded the road in that area and all the low bridges are
gone......as are the idiotic entrance ramps where you had to have
a 300Z Datsun to get going fast enough on the ramp to blend
with traffic. They even installed traffic lights which would
monitor the oncoming traffic and give you a green light ahead of
time to get going so as to blend in.

Mark

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