yesterday I almost met my end coming across MO/IL 60/51 the narrow 2 lane bridge that crosses the Mississippi.
It’s hardly wide enough for 2 trucks to pass side by side and has a 25mph posted speed limit. I was almost to the end and I had a flatbed drive cross head on into my lane doing atleast 50. I was forced up onto the wall to avoid having his trailer crush the front of my truck. My company is sending the footage to his because of the way he was driving. No damage to my truck thankfully.
Are there any bridges trucks should try to avoid or that you personally try to avoid (that are not obviously restricted)
I’ll be using a red marker on 60 and 51 in my atlas’s. Don’t think I’ll come back that way again.
Worst bridge you’ve crossed?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Mototom, Jul 27, 2019.
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Wow. I am glad you’re ok.
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Plenty of room for two trucks to pass. To me it looks like the op simply panicked. -
Back in the 70's we used to sneak across the old Cheat Lake Bridge,by Morgantown,W.Va. Bridge which was weight restricted, but if you were trucking from Baltimore to Charlestown,W.Va. area,you either sneaked across the bridge,or else you had to drive up US 40 to Uniontown,Pa. to cross the river. Lots more serious mountains and miles,I-68 wasn't built then. When you got off the bridge on the west side there was an immediate hard left switchback,and if you were driving anything longer than a 40' trailer,and a CO,you couldn't make the turn. That's the road you see in the foreground. Wonder that old bridge was still standing after all the heavy mine jacks we hauled across it back then. Heres a Utube of them finally blowing it up. The bridge in the background is I-68.
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Looks like Hwy 60 is just plain bad. Don't try it over the Ohio river. Going from Kentucky to Tennessee. Two bridges. One bad enough. Second is ludicrous. Must have been less than an inch of clearance between mirrors. Only one truck came the other way on me.
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I know one more narrow bridge. it's near Brownville, NE on us 136.
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Oxford PA. It used to say 9.5' and I had to deliver to the water treatment plant you can see in the background. I was in a 10' 8" UPS truck when I first came up to it so I called the police station to ask a way around because the other bridge I came up to was weight restricted to like 5 tons or something (this was flip phone days with no GPS). They told me to go ahead across and it's actually 12' if I remember correctly, they put the low height to scare trucks away from it. I guess they have upped it since then so smaller delivery trucks would go across.
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