Another track hoe and bridge meet today

At least the transport won't be buying an overpass. If that was a little farther west, CalTrans would repair it and reschedule the demo.

My ol' man drives a heavy haul truck here in oklahoma. He says oklahoma doesnt have any idea how tall exactly their bridges are. He tells me that when he moves the big cooler for gas compressors they use a high pole on the lead escort vehicle. The state makes the route and they always set the high pole at least 3 inches about the load. They do a lot of creeping under bridges and about once a month they get a bridge thats about 6 inches lower than the state says it is and the high pole touches the bridge. I guess they dont take into consideration of adding layers upon layers of pavement over the years or someone just cant read a tape measure.

if that happened to me, I would not be as lucky to hit a bridge that is to be torn down!

We had a similar issue about bridge height hear, the DOT had applied several layers of new pavement and they forgot to check bridge height. It was not until some unlucky sole was driving a load under the brigde that they discovered it was to low, now that bridge is 13'-7" only 1" clearence and this is on US HWY 29.

In New York State bridges are mandated to be inspected every 2 years which includes vertical clearance. If the clearance isn't at least 14.0 ft it is mandated that a vertical clearance sign be posted. The posted clearance sign is set at 1.0 ft less than actual.
So if a bridge measures 13.9 ft clear it would be posted for 12.9 ft. :jaw:

also we have a low (12.2 FT POSTED) railroad bridge in town that gets hit 4-5 times a year. It being on a 45 degree skew means that the side load on the hit is 70.7% of the forward hit load! needless to say anything that hits the bridge gets rolled over sideways! about 10 years ago a D8 on a load bed got rolled over on its side--i have been searching my FD pictures to try and find that pic. thank God nobody has ever been killed from one of the rollovers---even the bus that got rolled on by a semi had only minor injurys. :cheer2:

I can remember when I was driving one of our 992's down the road and came upon a RR bridge that I was just abit high.The chief of police came along and asked if we had a problem.I told him we didn't as we were leaving some of the air out of the tires.He went about his business and left us alone.We made it through New Jersey,came up to the toll booth and I told the toll taker that I only had 2 axles so he should only charge me car fare which he did.When I was making my way through the town of Bethlehem,PA I was crossing an old steel bridge that started to shake with me and the loader in the middle.Had to stop and wait for the bridge to settle down and finished crossing at a snale pace.Made it all the way to the job without being stopped once by the police.Boy have things changed from then to now.

I can remember when I was driving one of our 992's down the road and came upon a RR bridge that I was just abit high.The chief of police came along and asked if we had a problem.I told him we didn't as we were leaving some of the air out of the tires.He went about his business and left us alone.We made it through New Jersey,came up to the toll booth and I told the toll taker that I only had 2 axles so he should only charge me car fare which he did.When I was making my way through the town of Bethlehem,PA I was crossing an old steel bridge that started to shake with me and the loader in the middle.Had to stop and wait for the bridge to settle down and finished crossing at a snale pace.Made it all the way to the job without being stopped once by the police.Boy have things changed from then to now.

It was less than a year ago that this happend i think in New york state around the canadain border that a double decker tour bus in the middle of the night got lost hit a low bridge and i think 3 people died they make dozers every day so it always could be worse. maybe someone knows this accidentbetter than i rember can tell the facts better.