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Message:: [QUOTE="REO6205, post: 12304594, member: 137130"]If you want to see damage repair prices that will bankrupt you, hit a railroad undercrossing sometime.  They immediately shut down all rail traffic and start checking things. The delay costs for those trains run into huge amounts.  Mis-alignment of track is their big thing.  If the track is knocked even a little off kilter it has to be replaced, new ties put in, new ballast, and that's expensive too.If the crossing is posted for height and you hit it, it's all on you.  If the crossing isn't posted it's still on you but you might not get hit quite so hard when you go to court.Add attorney's fees, court costs, having your truck out of service, damage to whatever you were hauling, and the fact that most insurance companies have a clause about "committing any illegal activity" to keep from paying off...you might as well sell everything and get a job changing tires somewhere.That's exactly how we got into the rgn business when one of our competitors tried to get under a rail crossing with a Washington yarder on the deck.  We bought as much of his equipment as we could use, he went bankrupt, dove into a whiskey bottle and died a couple of years later.[/QUOTE]