Yet again massive disruption to thousands/tens of thousands of people due to an idiot ? 
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Or maybe the bridge isn’t obviously clearly marked ffs
WTF ! Is it hit every bridge on the west coast main line week ?
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My goodness,probably checking phone or sat nav or just blind as a bat.Incredible that drivers manage to do this.You could expect a dumb car driver to be at this level of incompetence but…
could you imagine the stick on this forum for the hold ups if it had been anything other than a truck that had caused it. 
Maybe it’s just me but all I’m seeing is a low bridge with no hold up save the normal rush hour traffic. Is there supposed to be a lorry strike here?
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Maybe it’s just me but all I’m seeing is a low bridge with no hold up save the normal rush hour traffic. Is there supposed to be a lorry strike here?
That’s just a Google image of the hard to notice low bridge.
Last week network rail said 5 trucks a day/1800 a year are hitting bridges at a cost of over £25 million a year and I bet that’s a huge underestimation given the disruption to thousands of journeys each time.
This bridge used to be a regular.
It’s on a hill, the photo is looking downhill so the actual height is effectively lower at this side than the other.
When it used to get clipped regularly the gouge marks in the brickwork used to begin a couple of feet from the front edge on the uphill side, and get deeper as the unfortunate vehicle began to dig in, becoming nicely wedged.
For vehicles coming uphill there is an electronically tripped illuminated sign and a half wit turning area for tall vehicles.
I wonder which way this chap was coming from?
Perhaps it’s time to make a bridge strike endorsable by loss of licence, comparable with drink driving, and for this to be drummed into all new and existing lorry drivers. That might prevent a lot of these happening.
or perhaps I’m just naive.
Short answer: YES
Auto boxes, EBS, ESP, Stretch Braking, etc, etc combined with crap pay and conditions means the industry is now becoming a safe haven for knuckle draggers.
The rail industry wouldn’t touch these clowns but is now about to be wiped out by them anyway.
Simple fix…Erect a robust shear bar across the road say 1 to 50 yards before the bridge and at a height of 1 inch lower than the bridge.
Every body will be happy as knuckle dragger and millions of rail passengers now reach their destination on time 
Knunkle dragger may be a bit perplexed when he goes to open the back doors however 
Dont worry as theres going to be even more on the A5 Hinkley one soon.
I’m able to predict this as Hazchem (ADR specialist pallet network) are apparently moving their warehouse from Rugby to the wrong side of that 15’ bridge from what I’m told (right side if not coming from M1).
Considering many of the other if not all pallet networks partner with them and most deliveries will be using double deckers, there’ll be some for sure.
Unless us night drivers are superior and never hit bridges (yeah right). 
It’s not just lorry drivers who do it…
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Frighteningly the guy in the article only got 8 points and 500 quid… and immediately went into another driving job!
Personally, think that if you are stupid enought to hit a clearly marked bridge it should be ‘bye, bye’ licence.
You asked a question OP. And here is the answer…
A LARGE percentage of wagon drivers (personally I believe it to be the majority) are absolutely crap. A complete and utter embarrassment to an already unpopular industry.
Funny thing though, the well paid firms that in the main have full time drivers who have been there a number of years don’t seem to be as afflicted… 
I had to laugh at guy I talked to at a drop today telling me in one breath that he recently dropped a trailer on its knees and also clipped a bridge a few days later, then in the next breath telling me he wants to move onto car transporters.
This industry really is full of idiots. I was so put off moving onto class 1 thinking I’d look a fool in front of all the more experienced drivers, oh how wrong I was. I don’t claim to be an amazing driver but when I see old hands and relatively far more experienced drivers doing dumb stuff like this I do wonder how the industry stays afloat.
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Hurryup&wait:
the industry is now becoming a safe haven for knuckle draggers.
The rail industry wouldn’t touch these clowns but is now about to be wiped out by them anyway.:
Well put mate.
It’s the answer to the driver shortage.
Employ plankton…and lay it on a plate for em.
That bridge is a pain. You turn right and at the bottom of the hill on the bridge is the height markers, there’s no height warnings before the bridge and there’s no where to turn back once you turn in to that road. If you’re in an arctic you’d be reversing up a busy hill in to a busy junction to get back out of there, impossible in rush hour traffic, my satnav always directs me that way even with my height added to my satnav.
I had to do a 3 point reverse there once but I was in a rigid so all good.
My load changes height on the daily so I’m lucky to of never hit a bridge, but I got a new 17 plate the start of this year that shows you your height, they put it in centimeters… so it’s useless unless i whip out my phone and start converting cm to feet.
ah Georges road bridge used to work the signal box that controlled this was hit on average once a week usualy late at night when theres nobody about .British rail spent thousands installing crossovers to allow trains to divert from the nearest line to the picture but it still caused chaos .20 page document of emergency instructions and timetabling think it was charged at around £300 a minuite for delays and that was in 2005 when i left
I would have thought that the main bridges to get hit on a regular basis - were those ones that stand at heights like 15’6" and you travel miles and miles along a straight road to reach, having missed a small sign obscured by an overgrown bush that warned of a low bridge “some miles ahead”…
A driver who’s 15’9" might decide to “go for it” as it is a long way to reverse back otherwise!
Diss Bridge for example… (Not ‘Dat’ Bridge!)
Winseer:
I would have thought that the main bridges to get hit on a regular basis - were those ones that stand at heights like 15’6" and you travel miles and miles along a straight road to reach, having missed a small sign obscured by an overgrown bush that warned of a low bridge “some miles ahead”…A driver who’s 15’9" might decide to “go for it” as it is a long way to reverse back otherwise!
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Diss Bridge for example… (Not ‘Dat’ Bridge!)
Dat bridge in Diss used to be 15’9".
They must have resurfaced that road to 3" then - to have knocked 3" off the bridge height… Right? 
Winseer:
They must have resurfaced that road to 3" then - to have knocked 3" off the bridge height… Right?
No, they replaced the old bridge in 2009.