I can’t work this one out. I understand how some guys hit bridges dude to not knowing their height but surely even if you didn’t know your height you must of known it wouldn’t fit.
Agency.
My guess: He has been under before with a flatbed and just forgot he had the box.
My guess, he’s been through in a Berlingo van (the biggest thing he should be allowed out in) and managed it without totalling the thing.
Juddian:
My guess, he’s been through in a Berlingo van (the biggest thing he should be allowed out in) and managed it without totalling the thing.
I was going to say sprinter driver, but your right in what he should be driving.
brados:
Juddian:
My guess, he’s been through in a Berlingo van (the biggest thing he should be allowed out in) and managed it without totalling the thing.I was going to say sprinter driver, but your right in what he should be driving.
Look at the size of the soddin arch, what lunatic imagined for one second that lorry would go through, the arch was at eye level for crying out loud 
Juddian:
brados:
Juddian:
My guess, he’s been through in a Berlingo van (the biggest thing he should be allowed out in) and managed it without totalling the thing.I was going to say sprinter driver, but your right in what he should be driving.
Look at the size of the soddin arch, what lunatic imagined for one second that lorry would go through, the arch was at eye level for crying out loud
one of mine drove into the car barrier on riverside retail park in northampton with his DAF LF 18 tonne , he had no real explanation either as to why he did it either , it hit the front of his cab at eye level
tony
Trucks that drive like cars to the point where the only possible conclusion is that their drivers are momentarily forgetting that they are driving a truck in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Any hgv driver or any driver. Who hits a low bridge causing damage. Should get 6 points on his licence and £500 fine. .
I’ve never hit a bridge or known any one who has.
But am guessing as it stands. There have a disciplinary prob get sacked. Rejoin an agency and get work the week after
tonyj105:
Juddian:
brados:
Juddian:
My guess, he’s been through in a Berlingo van (the biggest thing he should be allowed out in) and managed it without totalling the thing.I was going to say sprinter driver, but your right in what he should be driving.
Look at the size of the soddin arch, what lunatic imagined for one second that lorry would go through, the arch was at eye level for crying out loud
one of mine drove into the car barrier on riverside retail park in northampton with his DAF LF 18 tonne , he had no real explanation either as to why he did it either , it hit the front of his cab at eye level
tony
totty spotting, one assumes this was several years (decades) ago when the ladies used not to look, or behave, like geezers 
At least it happened in flip flop land looking at the pic and to a flip flop. I’m impressed he kept going to try and flat pack the container after making his space cab not so spacious anymore. I’d say looking at the pic he’s washing his trousers after that brown moment. Must of been some bang!
Jimjam81:
I’m impressed he kept going to try and flat pack the container
Maybe looking forward to his new career in Ikea
Jimjam81:
At least it happened in flip flop land looking at the pic and to a flip flop. I’m impressed he kept going to try and flat pack the container after making his space cab not so spacious anymore. I’d say looking at the pic he’s washing his trousers after that brown moment. Must of been some bang!
I agree.
It annoys me more when they just graze against it if your going to hit a bridge/tunnel you have to hit it hard enough so the next driver can benefit from it. Looking at the damage to the tunnel the next guy to hit it will get a few inches further into it now. 
I suspect the guy lost his job over this so maybe we will have a new flipflop here soon looking for the nearest Eddie stobart depot? 
adam277:
I can’t work this one out. I understand how some guys hit bridges dude to not knowing their height but surely even if you didn’t know your height you must of known it wouldn’t fit.
Especially when your eyeline is pretty much at the height of the bridge!! 
Santa:
My guess: He has been under before with a flatbed and just forgot he had the box.
Perhaps this is why some bridges get hit
Mr Santa, now would you try and get a space cab Daf under a 2.8 bridge.
I personally think the guy deserves credit for using his initiative.
A quick scramble up the embankment with a stone and bingo! 9.49 m
I wonder how many drivers who hit bridges pass an alcohol test afterwards?
edd1974:
Any hgv driver or any driver. Who hits a low bridge causing damage. Should get 6 points on his licence and £500 fine. .
I’d go further than that. Unless it was proven the height marker on the bridge was wrong and if it had been what it said they’d have got under it they should have their HGV licence entitlement removed, never to be regained.
Place I’m working at on agency they check the fifth wheel safety clip when you leave the main distribution depots. No clip, banned for life or if you’re an employee a disciplinary then the sack and given how cushy a job it is you don’t want that. A few drivers have been binned due to it and one who’d been there several years was not even allowed back in the busiest period when they were screaming out for drivers so they definitely mean it. End result is the mindset is that it is a P45 clip, not a safety clip, and I must check it two or three times at least before I get to security and I suspect every other driver there is the same.
Make hitting a bridge a loss of HGV entitlement for life and you can bet that the number of bridge strikes will drop through the floor. You’ll definitely no longer see what I see often on the A619 from Barlborough to Worksop where they’ll clatter the chains that are put up a mile or so before the bridge to warn you you’re overheight and continue on regardless.
adam277:
I can’t work this one out. I understand how some guys hit bridges dude to not knowing their height but surely even if you didn’t know your height you must of known it wouldn’t fit.
Don’t think this could have happened on that bridge. The unit is around 3.8m so that would have been destroyed before the container came into contact with the bridge. The driver certainly wouldn’t have been able to wash his hands !
Conor:
edd1974:
Any hgv driver or any driver. Who hits a low bridge causing damage. Should get 6 points on his licence and £500 fine. .I’d go further than that. Unless it was proven the height marker on the bridge was wrong and if it had been what it said they’d have got under it they should have their HGV licence entitlement removed, never to be regained.
Place I’m working at on agency they check the fifth wheel safety clip when you leave the main distribution depots. No clip, banned for life or if you’re an employee a disciplinary then the sack and given how cushy a job it is you don’t want that. A few drivers have been binned due to it and one who’d been there several years was not even allowed back in the busiest period when they were screaming out for drivers so they definitely mean it. End result is the mindset is that it is a P45 clip, not a safety clip, and I must check it two or three times at least before I get to security and I suspect every other driver there is the same.
Make hitting a bridge a loss of HGV entitlement for life and you can bet that the number of bridge strikes will drop through the floor. You’ll definitely no longer see what I see often on the A619 from Barlborough to Worksop where they’ll clatter the chains that are put up a mile or so before the bridge to warn you you’re overheight and continue on regardless.
I live near that particular bridge and it was hit not so long back by a Wilkos D/D,to say their distribution centre is only about 2 miles away you would have thought they would have known better