Low weight bridges

I would say you got very lucky in this case.
I'm not going to harp on you about the rammifications...a number of people here already have. I know you were probably scared about what to do both before, during and after and were probably freaking out the entire time.

I know you learned your lesson and won't make this mistake again.

 

I have been on the road you are talking about. I was routed onto that hwy by my company. When I came up to the low weight bridges I stopped. Pulled out Rand Mcnally and it showed no restrictions. I continued on but have refused routing on that hwy since and my company still routes drivers that way.

 

Markers83
Light Load Member
Member Since: Oct 2010
Location: winter haven, fla
Trucker? 6 Years






first how can your BIO say you have 6 years trucking experience..?? (didn't anyone else catch this..??)..and you are a newbie with a trainer...???? you need to correct your BIO because of this you leave yourself wide open to ridicule by others, because as a 6 year driving vet, you SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER...as for a GPS, are you sure you KNOW how to use one of those...??? i mean you don't have an atlas, so you DEPEND on some gizmo..??? you did not wake up your trainer..??? so you decide to take a chance and possibly collapse a bridge..??? and by the way, your trainer is dumber than whale shiot to say the bridge would NOT collapse unless you were stopped on it......!! the bridge CAN COLLAPSE AS YOU ARE DRIVING OVER IT....ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU FLEW OVER IT....i can see we have another situation of "the blind leading the blind".......

there again is NO excuse for a 6 year experienced driver (???) NOT to have an atlas....or to have done the proper thing....you see how you left yourself open...saying you have 6 years experience...????

and whatever you do, DO NOT COME BACK saying you have 6 years LOCAL experience, as this DOES NOT WASH what you did wrong, as YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN to have an atlas, and DONE THINGS PROPERLY....there just isn't any excuse for a 6 year experienced driver to do what you did....

actually, i thought it was $17,000 from the video is what i heard him say...

this is what i would have recommended as well, but again, BY HIS BIO, he has 6 years driving experience, does he really need one...?? he has a GPS as well, from my understanding, all newbies (or experienced drivers) think that those GPS gizmo's are infallible, aren't they...???

i hope he gets dinged big time when he screws up like this again, which he will.......6 years experience my arse......

 

and it will.......if trucking companies continue to hire people with a low IQ.....there just isn't any common sense anymore....and yet, they come to us like lost sheep for the slaughter....and we will pay for thier mistakes.

 

Good post, let's remember that he knew he screwed up and came here asking for help.

I remember asking my Father once if he would just go ahead and spank me, I could not take any more of the lecture.

 

Should we really take the opinion of a yocal or another trucker or did you mean and cop that was also a yocal trucker?...

 

Me personally.. I would have been been waking my trainer up the 2nd I didn't have verified routing. Even then i'd be looking in my atlas..

My qualcom today had me going down I87 south from I95 and then I287 into Queens. I guess someone forgot to tell our routing software I was pulling a 53' trailer.. my GPS tried it's damnedest to get me into the Lincoln Tunnel..

That motor carrier altas is worth it's weight. Get the deluxe version so it will last.

 

RERUN, These guys just have no clue. If they make then they're sitting high and bragging how easy that was. But just wait until they colapes that bridge and maybe some hazmat is leaking into the water. There's no excuse in the world that's going to get you out of that clean-up.

Here's a tip for someone that might have gotten in my situation and didn't not know what to de. I was hauling a high load 16' on a D8 dozer. I was routed by the state and I came up to one RR bridge they told me I could get under. Well I could. So I stopped right there and didn't make a move. The city cop showed and say lets get it going and I said no. I need the commercial LEO's to make it safe. The local then says well just move it over to that lot . I said no. The reason you don't want to move until the truck LEO's get there is because you will be held liable for any damage even if the city cop is tell you.

 

wow ,its nice to see so many veteran drivers here that have never made a mistake--its almost unbelievable
the o/p was asking for help,not to be cut down by a bunch of holier than thou attitudes
i sure dont reccomend going over any low weight bridges--but sometimes the need does arise--usually by personal screwup
now i would have woke up the trainer , thats his job --to train in situations like that--and please do not rely on your gps--its only a helper,it will route you where you dont want to go as per heights and weights
you got off lucky as no ticket and probabely no damge to the bridge---if it happens again--just stop--turn on the 4 ways and grab the atlas--better to hold up traffic than go thru a bridge--its all part of learning and gaining expirience