Missed it by this much, chief.

Women drivers...

FTFA: "The driver of a tractor trailer found herself jammed up underneath a railroad bridge"

figures, it was a broad.

"Nope, I was delivering this overpass & the truck just ran out of gas..."

This is a weekly occurrence on Storrow Drive in Boston. During Labor Day weekend a driver (male) actually succeeded in peeling the top of his truck completely off.

I've never done one of these before, so...

Reminds me of a Polish joke.

On the upside, she didn't hit a single orange cone.

It's too big! It's too big!

Shoulda picked a lower gear

This used to happen now and then on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, even though it was a truck route. Exepet, on the Van Wyck, it was pedestrian bridges that would get hit. And by hit, I mean knocked down. The city finally raised them.

This is why they raised the Hazard Street Bridge over Highway 59 in Houston.

Yes, it's really called the Hazard Street Bridge, and the old one was all fuggered up underneath from peeling the tops off trucks ;)

ExJerseyGirl: This is a weekly occurrence on Storrow Drive in Boston.

I was coming in here to same the exact same thing. I saw it happen once.

In Pittsburgh we have these huge signs before the tunnels that let truckers know they won't make it through. I always wonder if they actually work.

So what happens to the driver? Does she get fired? I might be sympathetic if she didn't underestimate the clearance by a FOOT AND A HALF. Jeebus.

Women drivers.

eddyatwork: In Pittsburgh we have these huge signs before the tunnels that let truckers know they won't make it through.

We don't, we just have signs giving the clearance, if someone hasn't stolen them. Most drivers don't know their clearance, I guess.

I live there and we see this sort of happens about 4x a year. All of our bridges were built too low, and roads resurfaced too many times.

I can think of at least 8 bridges in high traffic areas that this will still happen in.

uberwench: So what happens to the driver? Does she get fired?

I really doubt she'll be fired. Depending on company policy she may have to pay repairs to the truck she's driving, the trailer will probably just be written off.

Sussman: On the upside, she didn't hit a single orange cone.

With the way the headline was written I thought she was jumping the truck, Dukes-style, over a gap in the bridge she was crossing.

Smallwoody: Women drivers...

this

Heh, I used to live about 5 blocks from there.

It's nice to see that other states have problems with asshole truckers with no business being behind the wheel of any vehicle, ever.

Personally, I always like it when they play chicken with the concrete barriers around the construction sites. I guess they figure eventually the barriers will move out of the way.

Hasn't happened yet tho.

Gutsiest move I ever saw man.

We did this in a parking garage in Rochester, NY once.

My wife made a huge batch of her famous homemade Coffee-Liquor (like Kahlua) and we were all nicely plastered when someone (me) came up with the bright idea that on top of a parking garage would be the perfect setting to continue our party.

A friend's truck (with camper on back) fit nicely on the bottom floor, but once we got up to the 2nd floor, things started getting shorter. We popped several florescent lights before finally becoming wedged.

Prior to the cops arriving, we deflated the tires and managed to back the truck out. All they found were a buncha drunks laughing about how we "didn't know who would be stupid enough to try to drive a truck up there". They made us dump out all our wonderful liquor concoctions - but we still have the memories.

...and after all, isn't that what it's all about?

Nobody saw this FTA Stella Trent was driving eastbound just after 10 a.m. when she attempted to drive under the bridge, according to Greensboro police and the company that owns the truck, TCI Logistics Inc.

To funny. What logistics does it take to get freight from one point to another.

It's just semi under the bridge. za-zing!



/sorry

DonnyBaker: Reminds me of a Polish joke.

Is it the one: "I hope there are no cops around"

my favorite "but the bridge was too low!" story.....

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In Sealt, TX they have a chain across the road, with pieces of PVC pipe hanging down vertically across the road at a specific height. Big sign says: If you hit this, you'll hit the bridge ahead.

They need more things like this.

GIS women drivers -

In all fairness I do not see a height marking on the bridge which is required by law for any obstruction over a road under 20' clearance.

Happens a lot in Chicago truck drivers trying to go under Lake Shore Drive.

"I always wanted a convertible"

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FAIL THREAD!

ExJerseyGirl This is a weekly occurrence on Storrow Drive in Boston.

crypticsatellite I was coming in here to same the exact same thing. I saw it happen once.

One of my (long-since-ex)roommates started down Storrow in a Uhaul then realized what he was about to do. He panicked. Stopped shy of doing damage, then couldn't back up safely to get out of there.

If you call the Boston PD for help with that, they just mock you. They wouldn't come out.

/An otherwise bright guy
//No, I wasn't there.

This is a weekly occurrence on Storrow Drive in Boston

is there anywhere one can sit near there and watch that occur? I have read that response from many farkers, seems like you could just get a lawn chair and cooler and camp out there that weekend all the college kids go back to school near one of those 10' bridges?

You farkers just don't get it..

She was trying to beat the train..

/

Dang too short as in height! I was thinking too short as in length. I was picturing a dukes of hazard kind of thing where the truck tried to jump over an 18 inch gap.

Being from Boston with trucks getting stuck under the Storrow drive bridges all the time there's really nothing to see here....

Is that my new plasma tv I see in the back???? Crap that's why it went "missing" yesterday from the TV store..

Pepto Bismarck: ExJerseyGirl This is a weekly occurrence on Storrow Drive in Boston.

crypticsatellite I was coming in here to same the exact same thing. I saw it happen once.

One of my (long-since-ex)roommates started down Storrow in a Uhaul then realized what he was about to do. He panicked. Stopped shy of doing damage, then couldn't back up safely to get out of there.

If you call the Boston PD for help with that, they just mock you. They wouldn't come out.

/An otherwise bright guy
//No, I wasn't there.

So, how does the story end? I assume he caused a large back-up and could eventually back-up to take the exit ramp? People do NOT take that road slowly or cautiously!

this used to happen regularly in Charlottesville. We used to call it being "sardined"

Having driven an 18 wheeler for about 7 years back in the 90s, a lot of overpasses have inaccurate signs for the clearance.

All box trailers are 13' 6", and it's pretty easy to remember. I don't know how many times, especially in New England, when I'd be going along a truck route and come upon an overpass that said 12' and some odd inches. I'd stop, call the dispatcher, "Are you sure?...Well, ok". Usually wait for another truck to come from the other direction, and then still go under it at about 2 mph just to make sure I could clear it. I think the lowest posted said 10' and about 6".

Police: "So..is your truck stuck?"

Driver: "No I'm delivering a bridge and ran out of gas"

...Here's your sign!".

lovely picture, the blank space where it exists works wonders. Too bad I can't see it...

Car fail thread!




to mix it up

I had a friend who used to drive trucks for a rental company. One day, he was driving a truck that...

1. Had a sticker on the dash indicating its height and thus clearance

2. Was driving on a road that passed under a bridge that the truck's height could NOT clear, as indicated by a sign.

My friend didn't acre, and after making it (sans roof), the first thing he does is peel the sticker off of the dash and dispose of it ("I had no idea what the height clearance was!")