Know your load height

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  1. May 3, 2023 #1
    TNSquire

    TNSquire Medium Load Member

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    Vans damaged when car hauler collides with overpass, Michigan troopers say

    I see bridge strikes in the news constantly.
    I don't understand how this happens.
    As professionals, we're charged with safely transporting freight from a to b.
    Carelessness? Ignorance? Dgaf?
    In school, we had a 13-7 bridge we went under to demonstrate whether or not we should run under it.
    Instructors had us stop, pop the 4 ways, and creep up to it, and check if we fit safely.
    Get out and look.
    Obviously, we fit fine. It was a lesson to teach is not to trust height signs, and if we weren't absolutely sure, to perform a safe method of checking.
    Can someone please explain how these strikes happen?
     
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  3. May 3, 2023 #2
    flood

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    Simple... this driver didn't check to see how hight HIS load was.. has nothing to do with the clearance sign.
     
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  4. May 3, 2023 #3
    mjd4277

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    Wow. If those Ram and Ram Promaster vans were brand new the car hauler’s insurance is going to go through the roof!!
     
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  5. May 3, 2023 #4
    MacLean

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    He’s screwed.
     
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  7. May 3, 2023 #5
    Tumbleweed TowMan

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    The damndest thing is ...... from that driver seat - as far as a commercial truck is concerned - the bridge is dern near eye-level.

    I have never NOT gotten the tape measure out on any abnormal height vehicle on my rollback.
     
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  8. May 3, 2023 #6
    ducnut

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    Must be a fleet of parking lots painted like that, because I saw one going north on I-75, into Toledo, this morning. They’re regulars on I-75, as I recall.
     
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