I-65 Bridge VS Excavator - both lost.

While there is no certified data showing amount of bridge/overpass strikes yearly, it is considered 10 to possibly 15 percent of collisions involving trucks are bridge/ overpass by FMCSA.

Some are lazy blindly following car gps. Suggest to drivers & rv'ers to use a trucker gps can enter height, weight & length but because looking at it takes em long way won't use it. One time stuck out fuel delivering that over pass backing up traffic.

Any route restrictions can be found by entering {highway number & state}, height is sole responsibility of transport company/driver. * I will have a truck to tow back from Lebanon Ore coming up in a few weeks. I plan on using Hyw 20 between Lebanon & Redmond. I've known for years Santiam Pass has length restrictions, easy to look up. No trailers over 40', Doubles allowed 60' long from front of front trailer to back of rear trailer, maximum length tractor with single trailer 60'. My total length will be 58.5' * McKenzie Pass hyw 126 just south is 35' max for any vehicle including RSH's. Strictly enforced, the road through lava beds is extremely narrow and zero shoulder. * All is easily found on any PC/phone.

@Deere500a in many such cases it seem drivers really blindly don't even look out the windshield one bit. In fact I know that a few reactions to how their car ended up on tram-only tracks were exactly "I was just following what the GPS told me" to the non-repulsed police officers, but if you used one bit of actual eyesight you would easily see the 'no automobiles!' signs AND the fact that many times the paved surface ends right at such signs too (I only said 'many' because there are some places where tram-only sections still are fully paved over right up to the height of railheads for some reason, but nevertheless the many others are clearly visible high rails) I leave you with an example photo of such GPS-blind cars here https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/25B6/production/_86245690_tram_car_5_blur.jpg Anyhow this doesn't have anything to do with machineries tho so I won't comment any further..

Deere500a said: Click to expand... Gotta love the optimism I guess. "I hit the bridge at speed but all I need to do is give it a little throttle and I'll be on my way again. I've already moved the conduit out of the way so I'm good ..." I would guess that most trades guys moving a mini never look at a bridge clearance sign and would have no idea what their height is if they did ...

AMBMike said: Gotta love the optimism I guess. "I hit the bridge at speed but all I need to do is give it a little throttle and I'll be on my way again. Click to expand... I like how he got out of the truck and threw his hands up like it's not his fault and he's pissed off at something. I've already moved the conduit out of the way so I'm good ..." Click to expand... Gotta be a sparky.

What an idiot but 9' 7" is really low clearance.

Looks like there is a 12'5" bypass on the other side.

I know not what I do, but do it anyway because no one told me not to, therefore I'm not at fault. Will use that excuse their entire life when it fits the situation.

This is a somewhat local railroad overpass that is almost a weekly event. Nicknamed "The Ripper"

Is that a regular road? That's really low clearance.

@Welder Dave it may be relative, especially related to what kind of local traffics there is and if the route had an equally-easy alternative around it for large or non-local traffics. Especially towns that have old rail bridges originally built when there were just a few vehicles daily and by now its too costly to shut down any road&rail traffics to in particular widen the embanks and then repave a new road altogether hence modern traffic have to live with the very long 2-lane country road becoming a onelane-yield affair in this one single spot on the map.

Welder Dave said: Is that a regular road? That's really low clearance. Click to expand... YT1300 pretty much nailed it. It is also in a low area. So lowering the road is pretty much out of the question. Almost weekly a U-haul type truck tries to make it under it.

I'd guess it's a short cut and a little off the beaten path.

If you get off the interstate in any northeastern US city you'll find a railroad or other overpass that is well under 13-6. I've seen them as low as 6' tall in the center of a single lane arch. When driving truck I regularly pulled vans and reefers under an overpass that measured 13-8 at the centerline of a one way, two lane street and 10-8 at the outer edges of either lane. If you didn't straddle the centerline you'd hit the bridge. It happened several times a month... These are old cities built when rail was the only form of land transport that mattered.

This is nuts. I don't do any hauling but I get nervous driving my backhoe down the road looking at low overhead wires, even though I know garbage trucks and buses can make it. When I took my RV trip a few years back I literally drove every inch of my travel, ahead of time, on Google street view, to see if there was anything I'd need to worry about in a taller-than-I'm-used-to vehicle. I'd be terrified to hit an overpass.

Much more troubling is having to use public toilets, having a wreck is real low on the list.

Height of the hoe @ 12' & cable/phone along sidewalk requirements of 12'+/ roof overhang good habit keep in mind how tall machine is running around.

aighead said: This is nuts. I don't do any hauling but I get nervous driving my backhoe down the road looking at low overhead wires, even though I know garbage trucks and buses can make it. When I took my RV trip a few years back I literally drove every inch of my travel, ahead of time, on Google street view, to see if there was anything I'd need to worry about in a taller-than-I'm-used-to vehicle. I'd be terrified to hit an overpass. Click to expand... A few years ago, we bought a class A RV. Got it home tried everything out in the driveway. We took it for ride one day. Carefully backed out and started down the street. We hear this huge bang. Thought maybe a cabinet door slammed . While checking it out , a neighbor says you dropped something. Ripped the crank up TV antenna right off! Doesn't end there. I put a big sign by the ignition to lower the antenna , etc. I'm in a big hurry next time and rip out the telephone wires to my house . A few kids were watching me as I threw the wires in the street and took off. These kids tell there moms, and the moms call the police and the police call the power company. I guess there was quite a ruckus.

oarwhat you don't happen to drive a Mack do you?