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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3yiRStQaHU&NR=1&feature=endscreen
Watch the video!
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Posted - December 20 2011 : 11:37:16 AM
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The Bridge is in the Raleigh Area.
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Posted - December 20 2011 : 3:29:21 PM
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I has a CRAZY idea that may stop all that crazy truck & excess height vehicles
LOWER the street about 4-6 feet  
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 Posted - October 24 2021 : 11:45:08 PM
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Deserves a repeat view.
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 Posted - October 25 2021 : 12:24:19 AM
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bridge has been raised to 12 ft 4 in now
BUT it still rips roofs off occasionally 
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Posted - October 25 2021 : 9:39:05 PM
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A bridge so famous it even has its own YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/yovo68
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." - Matthew 5:16
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Posted - October 26 2021 : 12:02:31 AM
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Back in '88 I was taking a load through Amish country, the night was black as ink, and
I was juggling a road atlas on my knee whizzing along a two lane highway and came
to a railroad bridge marke 12'6 and my trailer was 13'6. I barely had time to brace
for the impact and went under and the sound of compressed air was like a sonic
boom. I guess they gave thirteen inches extra allowance on the clearance sign. A few
more close calls like this an figured I was not cut out to be a trucker.
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Posted - October 26 2021 : 01:12:24 AM
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That bridge is only a couple hours drive from where I live; I may have to take a road trip sometime.
1184
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - October 26 2021 : 09:54:41 AM
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there is this Roundabout in Milwaukee that has a few accidents
https://www.youtube.com/c/MilwaukeeRoundabout
or this bridge's Evil Little Brother
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Posted - October 26 2021 : 5:51:43 PM
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| We have one of these in Zanesville. Hard to beLIEve how many trucks hit this bridge even with lights and signs, and a deeper pass to one side of it!!!
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Posted - October 27 2021 : 07:08:11 AM
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I notice that a lot of these are at the bottom of a dip so that if the truck is at all long, its wheels will be higher than the road directly under the bridge while some part of the truck is under the bridge. If they measure from the road directly under the bridge, the driver had better leave a few inches extra or he might lose his top anyway.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - October 27 2021 : 09:48:53 AM
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Seems obvious, but after mega hours behind the wheel my brain
would go numb and I wouldn't notice a lot of obvious things. In truck
driving school, back in '88, they showed us a film (not a video, but an
actual film) of all the stupid mind sets a driver could find himself in.
In short order, I could have played the starring role. Glad I got out
when I did; the odds were not in my favor; I just wasn't cut out for it.
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