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Big-Rig Driver Learns Hard Way That 18-Wheeler Doesn't Quite Fit Through Bridge Toll Plaza
SF Weekly ^
| Jul. 2 2013
| Erin Sherbert
Posted on 07/05/2013 8:22:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Are big rigs even allowed on GGB?
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:25:44 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: nickcarraway
He was soooo close, just one lane too far to the left.
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:28:25 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: nickcarraway
LOL!!!
Now that’s funny!!!
Thinking about going to Point Bonita tomorrow. If I go I’ll stop before crossing north and have a gander
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:29:18 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Revolting cat!
In San Francisco men are constantly trying to put things where they’re not designed to go.
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:31:15 PM PDT
by
bramps
(Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Mitt Romney got in 2012)
To: nickcarraway
“No I’m not stuck under the toll plaza, I was just hauling it and ran out of fuel!”
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:32:37 PM PDT
by
Clay Moore
("In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte)
To: Revolting cat!
Are big rigs even allowed on GGB? Yes. The driver should have heeded the sign and taken one of the lanes to the right.
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:33:40 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: bramps
To: nickcarraway
There’s a big sign that says ‘Wide Lane’ with an arrow pointing right to the lane that he used. And, of course, he couldn’t use the wider lane next to it - it’s a diamond lane for buses and car pools.
It’s clearly the fault of the bridge authority.
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:34:56 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Fiji Hill
Here in Boston on Storrow Drive, they have overpasses that are REALLY low, just over 10 feet (perhaps 10,4”) and they have big metal hanging things that bash into your vehicle about 40 yards away, but...
People still find a way to get wedged under them. You would think one of the stoned college students would say “Dude! What was that noise?”
But, no.
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:37:10 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Silence: The New Hate Speech)
To: nickcarraway; a fool in paradise
An easy mistake to make - I do it all the time!
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:39:08 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: PAR35
So, was the trailer a 9 footer?
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:41:36 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: rlmorel
Here in Boston on Storrow Drive, they have overpasses that are REALLY low, just over 10 feet (perhaps 10,4) and they have big metal hanging things that bash into your vehicle about 40 yards away, but... We have some in Little Rock that are the same. One in particular on 9th Street is 10'6". One of my new drivers, in 2005, drove a 13'6" box truck under that overpass - never hit the brakes and made it all the way through. The top was peeled off like a sardine can. $46,000 in damage in under 5 seconds.
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:43:03 PM PDT
by
RobertClark
(My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
To: nickcarraway
"obnoxiously blocking three southbound lanes "
Wtf. Can those peeps count?
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:43:18 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: nickcarraway
I'd bet dude became distracted seeing all the Beemer babes driving in from Marin!
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:43:36 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: RobertClark
"$46,000 in damage in under 5 seconds. "
And here I thought that computers were the devices that in the hands of "amateurs" could create havoc at a great rate.
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:45:04 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Revolting cat!
What’s her maximum acceleration rate (in/sec/sec)?
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:46:22 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: rlmorel
Dude! What was that noise? I think has been replaced by “Like, oh my God, like what was that noise. A-may-zing.”
To: nickcarraway
Often they are paying more attention to where the GPS tells them to go instead of their surroundings. They will ignore the signs, warning lights, chains and everything else that is put up to warn people just because TomTom told them to go that way.
To: PAR35
Um, no. The sign points to the two lanes to the right, Lanes 1 and 2, and says “Trucks and Buses must use wide lanes”.
The driver was a moron.
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posted on
07/05/2013 8:53:03 PM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Liberalism. Ideas so great they have to be mandatory.-FReeper Osage Orange)
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