Truck closes BNSF trestle in Cameron TX.
http://www.cameronherald.com/articles/2005/12/05/news/news02.txt
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The highway limit is 13’ 6" unless you’re on the left coast - where the three states have it at 14’ 0".
Reminds me of an Atlas Van Lines trailer the driver tried to take under the C&NW in Evanston, Illinois about 30 years ago. The trailer’s top was ripped open and its structural integrity was gone. The load of furniture fell to the street in a sudden stop. Totally exposed to the elements.
When I saw it, all I could think of was that I was glad I wasn’t the customer service rep who had to call the family and tell them what happened to their furniture.
I latter asked a driver: “What happens when that happens?” He said: “You stop real quick and have a steering wheel tattooed on your chest.”
Wow, it’s people like this that cause me to lose faith in humanity…
That would do it, all right.
Usually it’s a truckload of hay over here. If you drive during harvest season you’ll encounter quantities of the stuff spread along the roadside near bridges - the aftermath of an overloaded hay truck meeting a bridge that was a little too low!
reminds me what happens when trucks take on the clinton st viaduct.
stay safe
Joe
Reminds me of a situation that occured years ago in my old home town - it wasn’t a container (although semi’s did occasionally get stuck under this particular viaduct) but one of those “I-beam” trucks used to haul masonary stuff. The I-beam didn’t get stuck under the viaduct - it hit it, stopping the truck dead in its tracks. I seem to recall that it took the tranny out…
The village finally got smart, after years of just paving over and over, and cut the pavement down to increase the clearance. IIRC, it was down under 12’ at one point.
It appears from the pix that the container was being trucked on a flatbed trailer rather then a gooseneck chassis which drops the height to 13’6" from the road to the top of the container. A flatbed trailer will RAISE the height instead of lowering it. Also, again from the pix the driver looks like he was in notch 8[:o)]
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Originally posted by dldance
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“The sign said clearance to the twelve foot line
but them chickens was stacked to thirteen nine”.
“We shot that tunnel at a hundred and ten
like gas through a funnel or eggs through a hen”.
Kurt
That’s a Hi cube container (9’6") as evidenced by the yellow and black tape on the top corners. Add to that the fact that it looks like it was on one of those really nice 48’ or 53’ flatbeds with the “Michigan spread” between the axles and the prominenet arc in the deck. If it was empty the arc of the deck would make it still taller.
Kind of reminds me of my hometown of Aurora, IL. Only a couple of the underpasses are high enough to allow Semi’s to go through. I think Benton St. was always the worst. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen them try to turn their trailers into convertibles there! [(-D]
Yes I agree it was a 9’6"er. Like I said if it was sitting on a gooseneck chassis & the underpass was 14’ then no problem but cause it was sitting on a flatbed made it overhigh at least for that underpass clearence. [:I]
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Originally posted by art11758
…Back about 1970 when I-40 was completed from the east to Kingman, Az only…a semi carrying a very large metal tank laying on it’s side and on I believe it was a low boy trailer…hit an overpass just before coming down into Kingman to continue on Rt. 66 west…the tank caught the bottom of the overpass and if I remember correctly ripped the trailer in two pieces…which I remember thinking at the time, that took some mightly forces to do so…so speed was involved…Bridge was damaged but believe it was repairable at quite an expense.
Thats not a container, its the worlds largest Accordian, obviously on it way to a Ripley’s Believe It or Who Cares museum somewhere[;)][:D]
I would not wnat to be that driver when the boss found out. Over by me in Dwight there was a bridge that was 13-6 and if you had big rubber on you took your half out of the middle. I had a tractor I had to drop the air suspension to make sure I cleared it with the bosses 53 footers they were on small 19.5 rubber. With that tractor I was at 13-9 and I always dropped the bags to get under that trailer after watching the gut ahead of me peel the roof off of his. Funniest thing I ever saw was a bridge in NY taken out Ny measures from the center of the hub so most of their bridges are 14 ft even if they are marked 12-6. This bridge was maked actual height and he thought he could get through with a 13-6 trailer peeled the roof off the whole thing he hit it at 55 I was coming the other way.
Reminds me of the loaded cement truck that tried to take on a 10’ clearance railroad bridge here in Oregon. He was only doing 25-30, and still managed to destroy the entire bridge. No word on what happened to the cement truck.[:D]
Randy
Kriiky-what a moron. A Darwin award winner at heart.