Do truck drivers know how high their rigs are?

**Captain Stubing** · 31-03-2005, 09:51 AM

Sitting at the lights the other week, heard a gawdalmighty crash! There was an overhead railway bridge about 30 metres behind me, with a semi-trailer roof stuck in it. Semi made it through, though! :thebirds:

Trevor 57 · 31-03-2005, 09:59 AM

That is a little embarassing, isn't it?

Envious · 31-03-2005, 10:00 AM

swanny, is that the bridge near gaythorne station...??

**Captain Stubing** · 31-03-2005, 10:02 AM

Envious, that's the one! Pickering St.

Envious · 31-03-2005, 10:05 AM

thought i recognised it, i work over there

**Captain Stubing** · 31-03-2005, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Envious

thought i recognised it, i work over there

I'm very familiar with that area. Repco and Supercheap just up the road!

Envious · 31-03-2005, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by swanny

I'm very familiar with that area. Repco and Supercheap just up the road!

Damn skippy, pickering st does a lot of business cause of us (green jellybean brigade) i love driving down there, so many options to chose from..hehe

pauljh74 · 31-03-2005, 12:45 PM

The company I work for had a driver who jammed a tautliner under a bridge once - he was banned from driving for 5 years for the company.

Casper · 31-03-2005, 10:03 AM

bwahahahahahaha.. bet he's got some explaining to do.

Mike Gayner · 31-03-2005, 03:42 PM

Hahaha that's funny stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if the driver had done that route every single day in a smaller truck too. Poor bugger, one lapse in concentration and it's probably cost him his job.

EA_Bender · 31-03-2005, 07:04 PM

HAHA thats just round the corner from me! hehhe

**Peuty** · 31-03-2005, 09:13 PM

Hahahaha, good one truckie.

MO · 31-03-2005, 09:21 PM

That looks like a Richers rig,Swanny is this the one you were on about...traffic boys nearly getting you into a serious situation.

Magical_ED · 31-03-2005, 09:24 PM

Ahhh we had a better one here in Nelson Bay.
A few years back a truck with a backhoe on the back decided to go through nelson bay and go under the bridge one of the only roads to shoal bay/fingal bay.
What happened was the backhoe caught the pedestrian bridge, and pushed it up then the whole bridge fell, a huge concrete mutha, smashed i think 2 cars that were parked noone was hurt but darn it was a huge incident. will try to find some pics if i can.

smciner1 · 31-03-2005, 11:20 PM

PWNZ3D (tm)!

:lookedat:

**Captain Stubing** · 01-04-2005, 08:19 AM

This bloke's lucky, as he had just unloaded. Was on his way to get loaded again.
Yes, John, that's the one.

MO · 01-04-2005, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by swanny

This bloke's lucky, as he had just unloaded. Was on his way to get loaded again.
Yes, John, that's the one.

So swanny,might one ask what they did to place you in jepoardy?

**Captain Stubing** · 01-04-2005, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by John McMaster

So swanny,might one ask what they did to place you in jepoardy?

Sounds melodramatic! Let's just say the traffic bloke had different priorities, and decided to leave his post, and not be there to direct traffic away from the truck and the officers investigating.

MO · 02-04-2005, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by swanny

Sounds melodramatic! Let's just say the traffic bloke had different priorities, and decided to leave his post, and not be there to direct traffic away from the truck and the officers investigating.

Sounds like a case of "I'm bored..hey what are those blokes doing that looks like fun",or maybe it's a case of dereliction of duty.

Anyway Swanny your here to tell the tale,mind you if you got his number,well you know what can be done internally.

mcflux · 03-04-2005, 10:51 AM

... is that truck a Ford?

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niko · 02-04-2005, 01:46 PM

i helped clean up a milk truck once 70bux cash for 5hours work and few crates of milk lol

eb2flyz · 03-04-2005, 11:29 AM

max height a truck is alowed to be is 4.7m high otherwise they need to have oversize permits and be restricted to a specific route. did the bridge have a sign on it stating the max height allowed to go through.
we had a situation where we had a few huts that were getting damaged from trees ect. while they were being transported - we do them all the time, but for some reason we had three huts get collected, then after the fact we found that the customer gave us the wrong details and the huts were actually 200mm higher than what he had stated, thus we had to get oversize permits ect..... a very expensive F-UP by the customer.

**Captain Stubing** · 03-04-2005, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by eb2flyz

max height a truck is alowed to be is 4.7m high otherwise they need to have oversize permits and be restricted to a specific route. did the bridge have a sign on it stating the max height allowed to go through...

Bridge was marked at 3.7 metres

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Originally Posted by Ghia5L

... is that truck a Ford?

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Originally Posted by svo347

No you goit its a MACK...

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Originally Posted by eb2flyz

um look closer you goit

: its a freightliner

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Sorry, not a Ford, Mack or Freightliner.

No one picked the Iveco!

eb2flyz · 03-04-2005, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by swanny

Sorry, not a Ford, Mack or Freightliner.

No one picked the Iveco!

well picked i should've looked a bit harder myself

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svo347 · 03-04-2005, 11:48 AM

errrrr geeee thanx birthday boy Shannon :P:P

bartaxr8 · 03-04-2005, 01:34 PM

Over here in Vic, the max height for a vehicle, without a permit is 4.2 metres high.

svo347 · 03-04-2005, 09:15 PM

Sweet nice one Goit b/day boy.... lol.

svo347 · 03-04-2005, 09:15 PM

Errrrr dont you drive trucks Matey:P

**Captain Stubing** · 03-04-2005, 10:09 PM

SVO.. don't know who you're asking. I don't drive trucks, I've only driven a White, with a low-loader trailer, and without a working clutch. I take my hat off to truckies who have to deal with suburban or city traffic. It's not something I'd want to handle!

svo347 · 03-04-2005, 10:29 PM

Settle down there ducky was talking to shannon EB2_FLYZ