Whats the deal with Chicago??
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by sjtrucker, Dec 4, 2007.
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A little tip that my dady taught me was to stop at a firestation because they have and will give you maps of all the low bridges. I only went into the city once to a drop lot acrose from a old sears factory type building. But i love how construction never stops The last time i was there was a couple of years ago, and before that it was four years and the same work was going on, on 94 just a few miles east. And i swear to god those road workers can not draw a straight line to save there life( for the new guys out there driving there for the first time STAY IN YOUR LANE)
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Viaduct Clearances by Street
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webpor...ances_July.pdf
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The problem with the info on bridge heights is that a lot of it is supplied by the City of Chicago, and they really don't have a grip on that info. I can think of numerous bridges in Chicago that are listed as being 13' or lower, and I can drive right under them with a 13'6" trailer, with no problems. Just for an example, I pick up sugar on Western near 47th, and on one part of Western are several viaducts listed as 13' foot and marked "no trucks". yet, I see 13'6' vans use that route, and I use it with my tankers that are just as high. I happen to be a little bit luckier than most of you, because if all else fails, I can pull up to the bridge, stop the truck, run to the back and climb up the ladder to the top and sight my way down the top to ensure clearance. I've done it before, and that's one reason why I have never topped a trailer on a bridge.
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nothing wrong wwith chicago. like any big city you have to know what times too go thru there. like don't go thru there on a friday at 4 o clock and expect to get right thru it. but that is with any big city.
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I shall be there Monday morn. I have a loaded trailer sitting at one of our yards to pick up, and I'll drag it about 25 miles out to Geneva, making my run before the morning traffic gets going, and going the opposite direction from the rush. Then, while the locals are all sitting in the morning traffic jams, I will be unloading the trailer (about 3 hours at geneva) whilst munching on my morning donuts and drinking hot chocolate. After the morning rush clears, I will bop about 30 miles over to Bensenville, drop the trailer and hook up to a load of whole grain flour and drag it back to Kalamazoo Mi, and unload it when I get there. From there, a quick trip 30 miles to the house, where I do the fixins for the monday nite chilidogs. While I eat chilidogs, the Chicagoans will be held up in the evening traffic jam, and the only sounds on my side of the lake will be me laughing and the ticking noises as my truck cools off from the day's running.
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