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Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - Dennis S - 03-07-2012
This gives me high anxiety imagining I am the boss or the driver:
http://www.elmbridgeguardian.co.uk/news/9572916.Commuters_face_traffic_misery_after_incidents/
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - cbelt3 - 03-07-2012
Route planning for large loads is a major pain. We brought in a huge set of parts for a wind turbine. Route planning required that they drive the route a day before and verify clearances and whatnot. There were points where the truck had to wait until late in the night to cross the area. Parts were also delayed because of bridge capacity... some were delayed several weeks due to flooding and possible weakening of bridges.
Looks like the lads in the UK didn't plan properly.
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - kj4btkljv - 03-07-2012
Time to call in an airlift. Something like this:
Jeff
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - Paul F. - 03-07-2012
Definitely some crappy planning there....
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - vitus - 03-07-2012
Well, there's your problem, he's on the wrong side of the street.
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - Pat - 03-07-2012
This came rolling through town last week.
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - Speedy - 03-07-2012
I've hauled 110' laminated poles. Not a big deal if you take care. Really. You don't go in unless you know you can make it all the way. Easy enough to reconnoiter. The worst was a pedestrian bridge that I hauled that I was assured I could take around a cloverleaf. Unfortunately it was too high to get under that cloverleaf's bridge. Fortunately I had the state patrol to help and I was able to do a u-turn on the freeway; BTW the u-turn was quite the trick because the median was too low for the trailer so I had to shorten the trailer while loaded. The bridge was less than 100 feet.
Long is easy, really easy, except at certain points like in the graphic. Wide is really, really hard. I won't haul wide. Going down an interstate and knowing you have three inches on each side to clear a bridge is not for me. High is really, really hard. I won't haul high. Going down an interstate and knowing you have one inch overhead to clear a bridge is not for me, especially when you really don't have an inch. Then there is the oddball stuff that is long, wide, high and heavy. Loads that require a driverless pusher truck that the front trucker operates.
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - Rolando - 03-08-2012
Pat wrote:
This came rolling through town last week.
What the hell is that?
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - freeradical - 03-08-2012
Rolando wrote:
What the hell is that?
Something for the taggers to have some fun with.
Re: Truck drivers: this will give you nightmares - Pat - 03-08-2012
Rolando wrote: What the hell is that?
Link above photo. Basically several hundred feet of transporter for a 340 ton rock destined for LACMA.