Blame permit,gps or stupid driver?

Driver .... looks like it will be a few bucks for his mistake

 

I'm guessing permits. Don't those oversight loads have to go they way they are told. If they don't that big fine also

 

Depends. If his permits routed him that way, was his load the height they claimed when applying?

Was that his route?

Was there a pilot car?

 

title says highway 40, story says I-64.....

i blame the news media for misinformation.

 

Media is all screwed up.

My own memory says old I-64 past that stadium. I recall using it now and then.

That truck and trailer oversize looks big. I also suspect it took some damage up there.

If he aint on exactly what his oversized permit tells him to be on, there is going to be big time fines and that's just a start.

With loads that big where in tarnation is the pole car that is supposed to be in front of him?

 

Pretty sure hwy 40 is combined with I-64 all the way until I-70

 

Did the driver ever hear of a measuring tape? He had the final responsibility to make sure the load was legal height.
I don't care what a GPS says, or what a shipper says, or what a loader says or what a customer wants...if the driver has any doubt about load height he will measure the load before he ever moves it.
We've saved ourselves a couple of headaches that way and the drivers who discovered the mistakes got rewarded for it too.
If there was a pole car driver out front and he didn't do his job and a situation like the one pictured developed he'd better not ever come around again.
Plenty of blame to go around in this one.

 

Driver error. I’ve pulled hundreds upon hundreds of OSOW loads through that area. They ALWAYS sent me 270/255. This is the same thing like that truck that got stuck in Nashville that went through the middle of town instead of taking Briley Pkwy/155. I will bet money that the permit had them routed 270/255. They will not route you through the city. They will route you OUT and then around the loop. Always. And that’s with a legal height load.

Second point of evidence of stupidity: the pole car fiasco. The pole car is an idiot also.
. Any pilot car that has ever escorted a load through e STL area would know the route.

Here’s what prolly happened...driver got a big load, handed his escort the permit, started the truck, and followed blindly. Rookie mistake. And the pilot car followed his GPS! Almost all rookies learn the hard way that jut because you have pilot car does not free the driver from HIS responsibility to READ THE PEMIT.