https://youtu.be/xzkWTcDZFH0
According to regulations, the person driving the truck is supposed to know the height of their vehicles, however, they seem to forget often and get stuck under the bridge deck or rip the top off the top of the trucks. I do feel bad for the caravan driver though...
There's one particular bridge located about 60 miles west from where I live in Westwood, MA that gets hit quite often, so often in fact that there's a police camera up at that intersection to catch the action.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsbsOpM84o3W0q6KIw1XL2g
This bridge is quite low too at 10' 8" - about 3.25 meters. Most bridges around my area are quite a bit taller at 13.5 feet or around 4 meters, which clears most vehicles.
Where this bridge is located, there are warning signs placed long before the bridge stating trucks must turn left and then another pole-mounted sign with the same, but the drivers zoom headlong and remove the tops of their box trucks. Everything from lobsters to paper have been laid out on the road because of this. This particular bridge will be replaced sometime soon, according to the MBTA who owns the line now. At one time this was the famous Boston and Albany and eventually became the CSX mainline between Boston and the west. It used to be 4-tracks back in its heyday and was reduced to 2 active tracks and two empty decks back in the 1950s and early 60s.
John
According to regulations, the person driving the truck is supposed to know the height of their vehicles, however, they seem to forget often and get stuck under the bridge deck or rip the top off the top of the trucks. I do feel bad for the caravan driver though...
There's one particular bridge located about 60 miles west from where I live in Westwood, MA that gets hit quite often, so often in fact that there's a police camera up at that intersection to catch the action.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsbsOpM84o3W0q6KIw1XL2g
This bridge is quite low too at 10' 8" - about 3.25 meters. Most bridges around my area are quite a bit taller at 13.5 feet or around 4 meters, which clears most vehicles.
Where this bridge is located, there are warning signs placed long before the bridge stating trucks must turn left and then another pole-mounted sign with the same, but the drivers zoom headlong and remove the tops of their box trucks. Everything from lobsters to paper have been laid out on the road because of this. This particular bridge will be replaced sometime soon, according to the MBTA who owns the line now. At one time this was the famous Boston and Albany and eventually became the CSX mainline between Boston and the west. It used to be 4-tracks back in its heyday and was reduced to 2 active tracks and two empty decks back in the 1950s and early 60s.
John