Great!!
I recall a photo of such a place once, and the truck body was all crunched on top. The name of the trucking company printd on the rear: RUMPF. Made its own sound effect.
You can’t make this up. Stupid goes on.
The CSX bridge over the Onondaga Lake Parkway in Liverpool, NY (N 43 5’ 25" W 76 11’ 37") gets visits on a regular basis. One, unfortunately, was a double decker bus, with tragic results.
Similar bridges don’t get the notoriety as they don’t have someone that has dedicated the resources to publish a video record of the failures.
True that.
It doesn’t matter how high the bridge is, someone will always find a way to get stuck under it.
Yesterday a semi carrying a oversized piece of construction equipment (I think it was a packer) got stuck underneath the east end of Walker Yard in Edmonton, on 97 St. I’ve never heard of anyone getting stuck there before, and this part of 97 St is actually designated as a truck route.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LauraKrauseNews/status/1420210981712498689
Wonder if a RR type high detector could be placed at least 200 feet from traffic light ? It would trigger the traffic light to go to imediate red and also activate some kind of warning sign. ? Install all three directions. Also what about other direction beyond RR bridge ?
Did you note in the video the white truck that came on the street facing the camera, turned left away from the bridge and subsequently returned to have its top sheared?
Sometimes you can’t fix stupid.
I think a tell-tale (also a RR item) would be appropriate - and I’d use dowels, not rope, so they made lot of noise if you hit them. And it would be easy to replace them if someone hit them hard enough to break them. If wood proved too fragile, then hard plastic.
At the continental divide on I-70 here in Colorado (Johnson & Eisenhower tunnels) the electric eye tell-tales have been in place for decades. Still does not stop Joe-Bob Trucker from getting into trouble. They also have staff in gatehouses in the approaches and in the east portal that control lane lights and video cameras everywhere. Still does not stop the problems.
The theory of the conservation of evil has a side corallary, the conservation of stupid. And they just keep coming, reinforced now with the flawed GIS in their GPS gear.
But you still can’t fix stupid. Stupidity can overcome ALL EFFORTS to prevent it.
We have a bridge on the D&H down in Glenville, just north of Mohawk Yard. One bridge carries NS and CP local trains, while another is owned by Pan Am (part of the "magic triangle). Trucks coming off the highway see a low clearance sign, but they clear under the Pan Am bridge no problem. Then they ignore the even lower clearance signs, and hit the NS/CP bridge, which is, I believe, either 10 foot 8 or 11 feet. It’s become a bit of a “hot button topic” among local railfans…
The biggest problem with the newest generation of drivers is they’re all to honest dumber than a box of rocks without any technology. They can’t read a freaking map or any high warning signs. They think GPS is infallible for directions and it gets them in trouble routinely. Here before we let them run loose they’re literally taught how to read a map how to read the road signs especially when hauling hazmat. Why is that so important sometimes you don’t take certain roads when pulling hazmat loads. These are important factors that the current generation needs to know.
Spoke with a relatively new “ham” last night who was driving a truck (I presume semi - he didn’t say, just a truck) up the Interstate enroute to Ogdensburg, NY.
He’d just spoken to another local ham on another repeater, then switched over to a nearby Canadian repeater when the first was out of range. But I digress.
The threw out a “CQ” (anybody out there?), which I answered. In the course of our discussion it came out that his GPS had him headed for highway 401. Cue the alarm bells.
The GPS algorithms like to send you on Interstates when available, and that’s what his was trying to do. One catch - ‘the 401’ is in Ontario, across the border. And the border is still essentially closed.
His reaction tended to suggest that crossing the border wouldn’t work for him. I reassured him that the state highway he should be taking posed no problem for his truck (a concern he raised).
I haven’t talked to him since. Presumably, he got where he was headed with no further ado.
All it requires is a an underpass bridge:
Drivers are not the only problem. Railroaders have violently reduced the height of many cars or loads.
And those responsible have gotten discipline for their actions. The same actions at the same locations are rarely repeated, unlike to folk at 11 foot 8 . com. Doing it time after time after time.
This is the CSX bridge in Syracuse by the Intermodal terminal
I believe this is the railroads and local DOTs fault…the warning signs should be at least a half mile up the road and there should be a app