Know your truck...

I had a time where I came to a really low bridge... The sign was covered by trees growing over it so I couldn't make out the height... I just could tell it was a very low looking bridge...

I sat at the side of the road for awhile assessing the situation.. I seen a few trucks come through like straight trucks and flatdecks but I still wasn't sure...I had cars honk at me a few times about the bridge as if I didn't already know..

So when I took a look around I decided to take a go at it because there wasn't much of a choice.. Couldn't make a u-turn and it was a messed up intersection behind me to try to back into it would have been very hard.. So I slowly came to the bridge and just as I got to my exhaust I stopped looked at the height and continued on.. Once the trailer was near the bridge I looked out the back window (daycab flattop) and while I was going under watched the front of the trailer to make sure I was good.. Sure enough I made it under the bridge with very little room to spare... I almost shat my pants but I did it the smart way.. Stopped, assessed and went slow when going under while stopping and checking again...

 

Your right, that guy a couple of weeks ago made it. He just left his doors on the ground.

 

that was obviously higher than 11' 1", the bridge heights are often wrong, roads get repaved,or they just dont want trucks on the road so they mark it as a low bridge when it isnt..

that looks like about 13' 3"

best to just inch up to it and get out and look at it.

 

Nah, he just didn't take it fast enough. . . The trick is to go so fast, that you are under and past it before the bridge (tunnel, whatever) knows you are there!

 

It's a Frieghtliner.





oh, sorry....thought this was a test.