I hit a low clearance bridge . . .

Ok, here's how to handle it. Are there witnesses to the tape measure hitting it? If not, that's great. Then, do like a trucker who backs into someone at a truck stop and throw your hands up at the bridge in a "what's your problem, bridge?" Fashion.

 

Anybody else notice the irony in the op's photo?

 

I worked for a company that loved to send me to Jersey. Sent me to a customer w/o directions, a few miles from the GW, and a phone number that was only answered by someone who only spoke spanish. (This was before Google Maps, and I didn't have a detailed paper map for this specific area). When I asked exactly how they expected me to find this place, their response was "call a cop"...like the local LEOs have time to give directions...

Thank you Mr. Engvall, are you and the other 3 doing another Blue Collar comedy tour?

 

No. I was referring to the presumed truck-configured gps that apparently wasn't concerned about a low bridge

OR

The op wasn't using the gps. Either way, kind of ironic.

 

Nice Edit !

Thought you’d done this..

 

Hm.

#### you for the details. I was spending half the night wondering if I should have yelled BS on those tape measures. You know? You get about maybe 6 feet out of them and BEND! How you gonna reach 13 feet up? Maybe I got it all wrong and I probably did. But I thought about this carefully.

Magnetic tip. Outstanding.

In my time we used the CB antennas at 13.5 any time they sang you aint getting in any further. I tried the US11 I think Arch bridge at Carlisle under the railroad once. In the middle. But nope. No fittie.

 

Man if they gave me a dollar for being stupid or dumb... (Whoops look out here comes o' earplugs... stand back...) Id be a million.

It's good to be humbled and brought low to feel dumb. Once in a while.

 

Walk up the embankment to the top of the bridge and measure down to the ground. Pretty sure the measurement will be the same.