truck eating bridge strikes again!
- Thread starter QChawks
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Back when I was in high school, the garage my dad worked at had the contact with the city/county to do the clean up every time that bridge ate a truck...I got paid $200 to help move the cargo from the crashed truck to another one...worst was the laundry soap...best was either the Oscar Mayer or the beer truck...
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There is a sign on the interstate 11 miles from the bridge warning about it.
Then another one at the top of the hill.
Then a giant yellow one on the front of the bridge itself.
Sometimes I think truck drivers might do too many drugs.
North Carolina has a section of low clearance bridges on I-95. There's an "Over height detector" before you get to it and a sign will flash warnings to trucks that are too tall to take the detour.
GPS systems plays a role here. Why look at a map, or read signs when you can surf the internet while driving? The GPS will tell you when and where to turn. Standard systems don't tell every danger to big trucks, just cars.
I first stumbled across the website a few years ago, when there was a story about it on one of the nightly news shows. Highly entertaining. You can tell by the impact - and the way the front wheels come off the ground - that some of them are hauling ass right up until they suddenly weren't.
Knowing the number of warning signs miles before that bridge, it's scary to think there are drivers out there literally not reading highway signs
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This is getting added to truck simulator. The truck eating bridge better be included.
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