Worried about driving through cities

I saw that, and in my response I made sure to clarify a little better what a panic attack actually is. You can be very worried about something, but as long as it doesn't keep you from acting or thinking, it's not a panic attack in any way I've ever heard one described.

 

how do you with Bridges in that city seeing as they pave over existing pavement without taking into the Account of Bridge heights

 

Biggest I pulled was permitted 13’ wide. I rarely go over height. And when I have not in Chicago. We got specialty trailers that skim over the road. So I haven’t had any issues on height. Some of the other drivers who haul bigger tanks have had some interesting issues. One where a crane takes a load off the trailer over a bridge and then the other side back on the trailer!

 

More often than not if I'm adjusting the route to avoid a tight right it's the turn into the customer. There are a few intersections I'll do it for though.

Of course it's not like I Google earth every single turn on the route.

 

There's times I will add quite a few miles to a route just to avoid dangerous, difficult intersections or freeway interchanges. An example is the I-35 and I-240 interchange in Oklahoma City. It was never a safe interchange for trucks and you have a real risk of curbing your tires in the cloverleaf (and who was the blithering idiot that added CURBS on both sides of a narrow turn!!!???).

I have a lot of customers with extremely narrow entrances, especially for a spread axle trailer. I always plan to make a left turn to get in there. Even then I can think of at least three customers that will require goosing the throttle as the left side trailer tandems hang over an open culvert (something not advisable in a tandem trailer). This is even after running off the pavement on the right, to set up the trailer axles as far right as possible.