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Caught this video from a friend of mine... pretty fun to watch all of the folks who ignore the blinking lights. I guess that I figured them all for foreign truck drivers until I saw the 5th wheel lose it's vent cover and A/C unit.
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Shane Fedeli 85PT40 Hershey, PA “Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed” shanefedeli@gmail.com 717-645-4912 |
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HEH !!!!! What do you have against truck drivers? I is one! LOL Too funny Shane. It looks as though the 5'er didn't even notice
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Mike Basista 2005 M450 "Some Enchanted Evening" Austintown,Ohio |
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I saw that video last week. The guy has been videotaping that bridge for four years and he never has a lack of new material. It's amazing how many people ignore the signs and flashing lights...
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Mike Shaw 98 LX Northern Virginia |
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There is a bridge like that in Commerce City Colorado. I have had several customers test the measurement there......
Father and Sons Moving Two men and a truck Wonderbread Cowboy Moving and Storage UHaul BluePoint Bakery What is really bad is if the same driver does it twice....ouch
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James Ricks Denton, Texas 1984 PT36 FMCA 387867 |
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theres a bridge in Jax Fl like that.The Myrtle street via dock.
I lost a few trucks there myself. With employees driving.
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DO NOT SEND PM email me at randy@randydupree.com only. Randy Dupree 2000 LXI 43 Bainbridge,Ga. Archer Fl. www.buybyebluebird.com randy@randydupree.com |
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Just north of our fire station on Main Street in Dexter, MI is a very old, stone railroad viaduct. It is a narrow 2 lanes and 11'6" tall in the middle. It is an arch design though, so the 11'6" clearance is not very wide and in the dead center. Our fire apparatus all fit if you are in the exact center of the roadway. If not, you'll leave some emergency lights on the side of the roadway.
About 2-3 times per month someone in a truck, usually a straight box truck, chooses to not believe the clearance or ignores the NUMEROUS warning signs. Being stone, it is extremely unforgiving, and due to the slope of the road surface, any truck heading north becomes very firmly wedged beneath it. This summer a 5th wheel camper treied and was too tall. Took a couple of hours to get it out, with the air being let out of the tires. Has some entertainment value when washing the apparatus. Maybe we should install some cameras. ![]()
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It's hard to believe that they don't have several signs miles back leading up to this bridge.
I wonder if it not possible for them to dig a lower underpass? Bet those people it happened to, didn't think it too funny. ![]() Know we would have been in shock. But I do look for the high limit. The 13 footers make me a tad nervous, with the A/C s and all. I remember reading here once about you guys all measuring the Birds heights at a Rally. Wasn't around 12' 6"??? And was that with AC units or not??? ![]() ![]()
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Jennifer & Darrell Snell Palm Harbor, FL 2000 LXi ME |
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Here is the thread you are talking about Wanderlodge Owners Group > RV Lifestyle > Travel Tips - Fuel Prices > Height Measurements of 'Birds, Low Clearances, Bridge Heights Quote:
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There are several publications and websites that offer a list of low bridges, by state or highway.
http://www.aitaonline.com/Info/Low%2...ces.html#North Carolina Low Clearances
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Thanks John, for the link.
![]() And you are absolutely right about what you say, as evidenced in this video. It's not only the approach that got some but the turn upwards after the dip. Good point. And it might please you to know, that what you did here, your efforts, did sink in for at least one person, if not several. Just as it pleases me to know, that I still remembered that 12'6" was the LXi height. Thanks, Good Buddy! ![]()
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Jennifer & Darrell Snell Palm Harbor, FL 2000 LXi ME |
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