Always get out and look

Big pole by building being covered in orange show fuses still closed, that means the truck and everything else is still energized where possible. A dangerous situation.

You have a pole with two or three 8000 volt lines... and we are getting into kilo watts in a hurry.

Not to mention both busted poles are bought and paid for once billing for total reaches the truck driver personally.

What a short circuit in this stupid trucker.

 

Roads do get beat up overtime though, just drive thru the empty back lot of any truckstop thru the parking spaces and its like ur riding a horse , from all the spaces are rutted out from the trucks

 

Yes you can fall through and damage whatever is below Blacktop in some situations.

Sink holes come to mind, I remember a FFE getting trapped by one as the story goes. THUMP there it sits aint going no where just yet.

 

oh yeah for sure!! just stating about the occasioanl 18 wheelere with long wheelbase and tire weights randomly going through a complex

 

yeah man and i meant no desrespect to mr dave. I was just hoping to shed some light on the paving industry and roads becuase its been my life. Much like i dont know a #### thing about most of the line of work in which you drivers do and haul. So i hope i wasnt stepping on any toes around here

 

Truck company is a moving and storage Carrier.
Unfortunately the driver didn’t have any sense that the wires looked low enough to be a hazard.

“According to the National Electrical Safety Code, telephone lines must be at least 14 feet above the ground and electrical lines must be at least 15-½ feet above the ground. Sometimes, though, the lines will hang lower than the allowable minimum heights.”

 

Us drivers are all grateful for u fellers that help build our roads, i myself think its a very fascinating process to watch a road get built. It seems every region of the country has their own way of doing it . seems go me the nice roads always get repaved at the first pothole and the ones in indiana and detroit go untouched forever, i swear its smoother driving on the friggin moon than in michigan roads lol

 

I have paved some in my time. I understand your position, I am not your opponent. However when pavement is bad or worn off, anything is possible.

Be safe.

 

If that truck actually pulled those wires down, they weren't installed/maintained properly. Picture 3 shows two transformers on a three wire top pole meaning at least 480 volts. Anything over 300 volts by the NEC/IBC standard has to be mounted at a minimum of 15 feet above ground. And if you look close at picture 3, where the lines exit the transformers on the bottom it is clearly 15 feet if not more. Second is picture 1 and 2. Notice all the lines are a right angles to the truck. 90 degrees. Even the light on the pole is at 90 degrees to the truck, and the pole is bent what looks like exactly a right angle to the truck. If the truck caught a line and pulled the pole to the point it would break, it would also twist as well. Also in picture 3, the pole is leaning AWAY from the street, not toward the street as would be expected. I see no back stays on either pole, something that is required every so many feet or when a line crosses a road to prevent poles from ending up on the road or collapsing and bringing other poles down like dominoes. Now I'm not saying that truck DIDN'T pull the mess down, but if it did, there's more questions than answers as to how/why in my book.

 

Sounds like thos driver needs to hire u as defense attorny