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LDB

LDB

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Retired Expediter
Here is a website that lists many many low clearance areas around the country. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with it but for anyone who hasn't seen it in the past it could be useful.

http://www.aitaonline.com/Info/Low Clearances.html#heading

Leo Bricker, 73's K5LDB
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Dreamer

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Good info Leo. And below is what happens when you think you can make it.

Posted with permission of the fellow who took the pic, but he asked that I block his company name.


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LDB

LDB

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
I passed a truck parked on the shoulder of the road, running for a major expediter although obviously not at that moment, that had rolled the top back like you used to roll back a canned ham lid. The nearest overpass was marked plenty high enough to clear and there was nothing else that could have caught it. I was going the other way and under load so I couldn't stop to find out anything. It was one of those things you see that puzzles you forever. It wasn't nearly as bad as the one in the pic either. The wall structure was pretty much there, just the roof rolled back.

That truck in the pic above has a worse problem than the box. It's turned inside out and reversed.

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JohnO

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Had a close call in Chicago due to road closeure took a while to back out of harms way. So much for directions from receptionist at shipper. After that close call I only get directions from loading dock folks they seem to have a better handle.
 
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tlang563

Seasoned Expediter
>Good info Leo. And below is what happens when you think you
>can make it.
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>Posted with permission of the fellow who took the pic, but
>he asked that I block his company name.
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>Dreamer
>Forums Administrator

OUCH!!!!!!!, Maybe he could convert it to a hot-shot flatbed rig. Looks like on of those good old Rhodes Rambler sleepers on the truck. When I was driving for Allied many moons ago, one of our lease drivers got hung up under a rr overpass in IL, the sign showed 13'10", but they'd recently repaved and didn't bother to check the new clearance with the paving, they managed to get finally get him unstuck but not before tearing part of the roof of the trailer. I think they settled about a year later, the state of IL put it on the contractor, the contractor said the state was responsible for the signage, etc. Cant trust the signs sometimes. Tom.
 
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prescat

Expert Expediter
Maybe it's me, but I just can't see hitting a low overpass as a professional driver. There have been times, when I used to own a small household fleet, that I needed to clear a small bridge to get into a neighborhood without going 50 miles out of my way. I would slow down, (get out if needed), and do about 2 mph. With that said,in almost 23 years of truck driving, I never hit an overpass. Then one day, a new driver of mine called me and said he had a "little problem". 45 minutes later, my little 14 ft Isuzu pack truck came back with no roof, and both sides hanging. His first and last day on the job. That mistake cost me almost 4000 dollars. When I was a teenager in a car once, I was on my way to Philly on the old Admiral Wilson Blvd. in Camden N.J. (murder capitol of the US), and I was passing a semi just as we were going under an overpass. He must of hit the top and it sounded like a bomb. I ducked thinking I was being shot at. In my rearview mirror I saw him wedged. I laugh now, but I think I needed to change my shorts back on that day in the early 80s.
 
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