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Eastern Railroad Discussion > Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - againDate: 03/27/20 13:28 Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: joemvcnj Date: 03/27/20 14:50 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: ST214 Western Express driver. With a move like that, I was expecting Swift!
Date: 03/27/20 14:55 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: icancmp193 Always know the height of your rig. How hard is this?
TJY Date: 03/27/20 14:59 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: rev66vette OMG!! Hope there wasn't toilet paper!!!
Date: 03/27/20 15:00 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: choodude "The trailer containing general Walmart products was completely destroyed. There was no damage to the tractor itself,"
Was there any toilet paper in that load? Brian Date: 03/27/20 15:07 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: joemvcnj Facing away from the store, I hope it had just unloaded.
I am telecommuting for the forseeable future, but I normally drive through there at 7am. The scratches on the yellow paint were from a prior strike. The sacrificial girder is rather new, been struck 3 or 4 times now. The prior one took a really bad whack about 2 years ago by a container truck and bent it out of shape. Date: 03/27/20 17:18 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: pal77 icancmp193 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Always know the height of your rig. How hard is > this? > > TJY It’s not that hard. I drove for a moving co in college the first thing the dispatcher said was to think vertically. Trailer is 13’6 they mean it For me the marked bridges such as this were easy it was the errant old oak tree on the side streets where moving vans frequent was more difficult. Think vertically. Posted from iPhone Date: 03/27/20 17:31 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: joemvcnj There is a steep slope to get under it, so there is some trigonometry to deal with as well. A simple clearance figure is not adequate.
Posted from Android Date: 03/27/20 21:28 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: EL-SD45-3632 joemvcnj Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > There is a steep slope to get under it, so there > is some trigonometry to deal with as well. A > simple clearance figure is not adequate. > > Posted from Android if they post a clearance of say, 11' 6", it will be 11' 6", steep grade or not. As a driver is approaching the bridge the driver has no time to do any math before he drives under it. Date: 03/28/20 03:34 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: joemvcnj What I am saying is the clearance amount should take into account a 60' trailer, and use it to reduce the actual vertical distance to the realistic clearance. No, I don't expect a truck driver to calculate the Pythagorean solution in an instant in his head.
If the truck had just pulled out of Walmart by the police station, it bypassed the lit clearance warning light that it would have triggered along Main Street. There is also a huge volume of auto loader trucks from a huge lot behind Walmart. They never seem to fall victim to this bridge. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/20 11:48 by joemvcnj. Date: 03/28/20 06:43 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: bluesboyst choodude Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > "The trailer containing general Walmart products > was completely destroyed. There was no damage to > the tractor itself," > > Was there any toilet paper in that load? > > Brian Ha I was thinking the same..... :) Date: 03/28/20 09:40 Re: Manville, NJ ex-LV overpass got whacked by a truck - again Author: Lackawanna484 There's a much more sophisticated over size truck device on Wood Avenue in Linden NJ. Right where the road ducks under the Northeast Corridor. But, it doesn't have the deep dive that Manville enjoys.
Height sensing radar, flashing lights, a whoop-whoop horn, etc. But it still gets hit every few weeks. |