Big-Rig Driver Learns Hard Way That 18-Wheeler Doesn't Quite Fit Through Bridge Toll Plaza

SF Weekly ^ | Jul. 2 2013 | Erin Sherbert

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I once had the extreme bad luck of being about 6 or 7 vehicles behind an over height truck (set off the over ht detector—I saw it but nothing I could do but brake!) that got stuck in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Tunnel. Can we say gridlock? Amazingly NO accidents occurred—probably because anyone paying attention (except the rig driver) saw the flashing lights & knew what was about to happen.

They has to let the air out of the tires to tow it out.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Has = HAD. My phone hates me.

[rottndog]

11Foot8 Bridge

[Paladin2]

I took my kidz through the SHT one day and accelerated to make sure we were next to some unmuffled motorcycles all the way through. Should’a had ear muffs on. The kidz were impressed though.

[rlmorel]

OMG...I wonder if he had that fleeting feeling of “I wonder if the damage is really bad...”

[rlmorel]

Hahahahaha,..you got nothing on what one of my co-workers told me today.

She got a new iPhone, and sent her daughter a message and it said “I’ll be darned if I am paying 20 dollars for herpes..”

I can’t remember what she said her daughter MEANT to say, but...that’s pretty funny!

[rlmorel]

Heheheh. Valley speak has infected our culture! We knew it wouldn’t take long...

[Mogger]

There is a beautiful covered bridge crossing the Connecticut River just south of here.

So far the east end of it has been demolished twice by 18 wheelers trying to fit through it.

In each case the drivers were following the route instructions given by them from their home offices.

The height is clearly marked as well as the weight limit, 9 tons, as you approach it.

The bridge went over a hundred years without suffering this kind of damage caused by the blind use of information gleaned from sources on computers and GPS.

[B4Ranch]

This was probably a new immigrant from Europe or Mexico who couldn’t read English.

[Trod Upon]

We need Mexican truckers to cause the mayhem that American drivers won’t.

[Windflier]

He was soooo close, just one lane too far to the left.

Damn illiterates and illegals (who can't read English) are driving big rigs all over the country these days.

[Mogger]

This was probably a new immigrant from Europe or Mexico who couldn’t read English.

Well, they each seemed to do pretty good jobs at reading the instructions their idiot dispatchers had given them.

[ltc8k6]

1 & 2 are clearly marked as wide lanes. He is in lane 3.

[quilterdebbie]

I think they had the lane on either side of the truck blocked off too.

[muir_redwoods]

I worked at a casino/resort that had a pedestrian walkway over a road that allowed 13’6” clearance; until they repaved the roadway underneath.

It was a damned big truck that made the discovery.

[Daffynition]

FYI darling!

[Conspiracy Guy]

They need a sign telling drivers where the trucks must go. Wait....what....oh. Well the sign should be yellow with large black letters,,,, just a second.

[a fool in paradise]

"HULK MAKE IT FIT!

[a fool in paradise]

There’s a big sign that says ‘Wide Lane’ with an arrow pointing right to the lane that he used.

"No hablo ingles!"

[a fool in paradise]

Coulda been worse...