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Bunnyhat: I would guess they need to access the bridge for structural damage before removing what might be something holding something it broke in place.Most likely an insurance thing.

I think you're right, but it's surprising from the photo, because it's just the top of the cab. It looks trivially crushable. I'd be amazed the bridge can't handle that.

/Not a civil or mechanical engineer

Quick bit of warning, DON'T click on the 'A Brief History of Q.C.'s Truck Eating Bridges' link:

1. It's a slideshow

2. You have to click on the image itself to make the slideshow progress

3. Clicking on the thumbnail in the slideshow doesn't take you to that slide 'sometimes', it takes you to another page with just that image. Other times it works.

4. Some of the slides are about an inch and a half high and 3 inches wide.

5. It's a s-l-o-w slideshow.

Sometimes slideshows are OK, and in something like this, they would normally work out OK, but this one sucks donkey ass.

Dirty flat bedders think they can go under low bridges cause they usually have a lower clearance than dry van/reefer trailers. Guess he forgot that freightliner he's driving still has a 13' clearance.

But if it makes ya'll any less mad, he works for prime, which sucks and if I remember correctly they are strictly an owner operator/fleece operator outfit so there's a 99.9999% chance he's gonna be responsible for that insanely large fine DOT is about to give him....

Amateurs.

They need to hang one of those warning bars like they have for parking garages. Put it a mile or so from the last exit before the bridge if you hit it you won't fit go around. Or better yet a beam like they have in liquor stores that makes the bell go off. If you trip the beam a light goes off on the side of the road that tells you yo exit.

RoyBatty: A semi truck got stuck under the Government Bridge just before 4 p.m. on Friday, stopping Illinois-bound traffic.

A tow truck is on its way and officials will decide whether to let the air out of the semi's tires or pull it out another way.

As of 5:45 p.m., the truck remained in place.

Why is letting the air out of the tires up to officials?

Why has the truck sat there for almost two hours before anyone tried letting the air out of the tires?

Isn't this an old brain teaser?



I would guess they need to access the bridge for structural damage before removing what might be something holding something it broke in place.
Most likely an insurance thing.

Read the comments and one of them observed that every truck driver who gets stuck under the bridge blame it on their GPS. Garmin made me do it.

A semi truck got stuck under the Government Bridge just before 4 p.m. on Friday, stopping Illinois-bound traffic.

A tow truck is on its way and officials will decide whether to let the air out of the semi's tires or pull it out another way.

As of 5:45 p.m., the truck remained in place.

Why is letting the air out of the tires up to officials?

Why has the truck sat there for almost two hours before anyone tried letting the air out of the tires?

Isn't this an old brain teaser?