nickyboy:
Winseer:
It’s a 600cf 7.5t with gas boxes in the back, so likely a BG vehicle with a non-LGV driver in it. This bridge is a rat run for cars in the morning when there’s traffic problems on the A2 rainham road.
Must have forgotten a 600cf is around 10’7" in height!Did you even look at the article?
Nope. Familiarity breeds contempt. 
karl67:
Dieseldoforme:
Good but it was only an ad made in the 80’s to show the dangers of low bridges.
90’s actually - 15th October 1996 to be precise - and in Swindon.
Dieseldoforme:
karl67:
Dieseldoforme:
Good but it was only an ad made in the 80’s to show the dangers of low bridges.90’s actually - 15th October 1996 to be precise - and in Swindon.
You look at the driver - he doesn’t seem to be wearing a helmet or anything - not even a Hi-Viz FFS 
. You imagine what Elf & Safety would say about that now?
Dieseldoforme:
karl67:
Dieseldoforme:
Good but it was only an ad made in the 80’s to show the dangers of low bridges.90’s actually - 15th October 1996 to be precise - and in Swindon.
So thats where all the Bristol VR’s went
Hiya…i don’t know, the driver was maybe checking the width yet alone the height, their dos’nt seem
to be much room for that van hight or width.
John
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some drivers are
I have in the past seen lots of agency drivers come to Swifts, leave the yard with a 15’6" trailer and go right under the 14’6" bridge on the back road to Crick, but they had an excuse … they were agency drivers 
When I first started driving big trucks here I was very un-nerved by following a running mate along US2 in MA and watching him roaring under bridges that were un marked (as most here are) with a 13’6" trailer just missing by millimeters FFS, I eventually got used to it.
Pat Hasler:
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some drivers are
I have in the past seen lots of agency drivers come to Swifts, leave the yard with a 15’6" trailer and go right under the 14’6" bridge on the back road to Crick, but they had an excuse … they were agency drivers
When I first started driving big trucks here I was very un-nerved by following a running mate along US2 in MA and watching him roaring under bridges that were un marked (as most here are) with a 13’6" trailer just missing by millimeters FFS, I eventually got used to it.
Being an agency driver is no excuse, I’ve done loads of agency work and never done that…
BUT…
Agency driver had my truck when I was off for a couple of days, missed the pin, damaged the air deflector on a brand new Actros MP4 and the winding arm holder on a brand new trailer (luckily that was as far as he got).
A few weeks later and he’s back for another go, same trailer 16’2" double deck under a 14’9" bridge 
I appologise to most agency drivers 
Not all are bad, it’s the just passed my test or don’t really care ones that are bad. When I worked at Swifts agencies were a relitively new concept in transport and it was aways the no hopers who went to them and so we always got people who had no idea what they were doing, I even had experience of giving directions to one bloke on how to get to South Mimms for a change over (bottom of the M10, not M25), they sent him with a brand new F12 and he was gone 8 hours He returned saying it wouldn’t go above 25mph and reved like hell, he drove the whole way and back in low range and no overdrive Then he asked me where to put the fuel in 
Thats the sort of agency driver I mean.
Pat Hasler:
I appologise to most agency drivers
Not all are bad, it’s the just passed my test or don’t really care ones that are bad. When I worked at Swifts agencies were a relitively new concept in transport and it was aways the no hopers who went to them and so we always got people who had no idea what they were doing, I even had experience of giving directions to one bloke on how to get to South Mimms for a change over (bottom of the M10, not M25), they sent him with a brand new F12 and he was gone 8 hours
Thats the sort of agency driver I mean.
Lol M10 that will confuse a few newbies that’s long gone ,now part of the A414 since they did the bottom of the M1 a few years ago
I can’t understand why the Authorities don’t put laser beams across the road to
measure vehicle heights before every sub 16 foot 6 inch bridge. They could then trigger
all kinds of red light warnings to any driver with an overheight trailer.
This is 2013 and it ain’t rocket science.
Alternatively, heavy duty chains hanging down to whack the overheight trailer and
bring down a barrier to prevent progress under the low bridge.
Bridge strikes are fantastically expensive - with thousands of man-hours wasted in delays.
To be fair, there are more than a few locations (typically, but not exclusively on trunk roads) where electronic warnings, dangly chains etc have been installed. But the bridges still get bashed.
Booked in when??:
Winseer:
It’s a 600cf 7.5t with gas boxes in the back, so likely a BG vehicle with a non-LGV driver in it. This bridge is a rat run for cars in the morning when there’s traffic problems on the A2 rainham road.
Must have forgotten a 600cf is around 10’7" in height!It’s a sprinter !! 0
The DAF was dragging it out
I think he was saying it’s a 600 cubic foot capacity body on the sprinter …
Roymondo:
To be fair, there are more than a few locations (typically, but not exclusively on trunk roads) where electronic warnings, dangly chains etc have been installed. But the bridges still get bashed.
I always assume that I am too tall for all bridges - I then do a double check.
If it’s a close call I always crawl through.
