Osce0la
8/10/2007, 04:04 PM
We had a trucker out here that found this out the hard way.
Let me set this up for you.
There is an old bridge beside my building. The bridge goes uphill, so the part of the bridge that is over 1st Ave. South only has a 7'7" clearance. When you turn onto 1st Ave. South, there is a bar hanging down, 7'7" above the ground, to let you know that you have enough clearance to get under the bridge. There is also a big yellow sign the reads "7'7" CLEARANCE" on the bridge. Apparently this guy either can't read, or doesn't know that a 13'6" trailer is not small enough to fit under a 7'7" bridge. Guy tries to make it under the bridge...Bridge - 1, Truck - 0. I wish Verizon wasn't being such a ***** so I could forward the pics to my email and post them here, but oh well...3 sides of the trailer, plus the roof of the trailer are all sitting beside and behind the truck, crunched up pretty badly. Driver is fine (other than having to explain to the police, and his boss, why he though his 13 foot truck would fit under a 7 foot bridge...
Let me set this up for you.
There is an old bridge beside my building. The bridge goes uphill, so the part of the bridge that is over 1st Ave. South only has a 7'7" clearance. When you turn onto 1st Ave. South, there is a bar hanging down, 7'7" above the ground, to let you know that you have enough clearance to get under the bridge. There is also a big yellow sign the reads "7'7" CLEARANCE" on the bridge. Apparently this guy either can't read, or doesn't know that a 13'6" trailer is not small enough to fit under a 7'7" bridge. Guy tries to make it under the bridge...Bridge - 1, Truck - 0. I wish Verizon wasn't being such a ***** so I could forward the pics to my email and post them here, but oh well...3 sides of the trailer, plus the roof of the trailer are all sitting beside and behind the truck, crunched up pretty badly. Driver is fine (other than having to explain to the police, and his boss, why he though his 13 foot truck would fit under a 7 foot bridge...