Gina Lollobrigida (Gina Low-lo-bridge-i-da)
Don't you just love cantilevered structures?
Posted on 10/26/2012 11:47:04 AM PDT by EveningStar
Truckers of the world! No matter how many times you try it, no matter how much you duck inside your cabin as get through it, no matter how strongly you believe the warning signs don't apply to you, your vehicle is never going to be able to survive an encounter with Durham's 11-foot 8-inch tall bridge.
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Look. Another lowbridge. :)
Might be cheapest to lower the road by 2 feet or so.
Did I see Obama’s bus trying to fit a victory into 46 percent?
CW McCall, Wolf Creek Pass: took that top row a chickens off slicker’n scum off a Louisiana swamp.
Gina Lollobrigida (Gina Low-lo-bridge-i-da)
Don't you just love cantilevered structures?
Worked right there next to the bridge in Bright Leaf Square for a number of years. The average was just about 1 every other day. They finally put up a steel beam in front of the bridge with yellow and black warning tape with a light that starts flashing if the truck is too high as it approaches. They spent three days setting steel in concrete and erecting a beam detached from the bridge that would take the force of the blows from the trucks. The paint on the new warning system hadn’t even dried before the next truck came along and “WHAM!”... peeled back it’s top like a tin can.
Based on the demographics of the majority of the truck drivers, they probably should have put the warnings in Spanish. Just saying....
Even if they dug the road down about two feet there’d be some idiot who’d drive a truck through that’s three feet taller.
I wish I had a bridge like this where I live. I’d be handing out awards to the drivers for how much they took off the top, how much air they got with front tires, and other such things.
I think I would improve that bridge with digital signage that says, “Have a nice day!” with smiley face that lights up right before contact.
Even if they dug the road down about two feet there’d be some idiot who’d drive a truck through that’s three feet taller.
I wish I had a bridge like this where I live. I’d be handing out awards to the drivers for how much they took off the top, how much air they got with front tires, and other such things.
I think I would improve that bridge with digital signage that says, “Have a nice day!” with smiley face that lights up right before contact.
Ducka You Head...Lowla Bridgeada.
BFL
sides are aching bump.
And I thought I was unique! :-)
Back around the time of the Coolidge Administration, Grampa told the story of his partnership in a delivery truck.
His partner was driving the truck one day and came to a low overpass. (There are a fair number of those in Chicago because of the tremendous number of train tracks in the city back then.)
So the partner stopped, assessed the clearance situation, and decided he needed to let the air out of the tires to get under.
So they ended up with ruined tires and a busted truck top.
Or if there’s a literate trucker, how ‘bout
“Have a nice dray”?
Laz would hit it!
Ooffhhh!
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