I’m sure this was posted on here in January when the article came out, but for anyone who didn’t see it…
google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc. … e-38770146
One paragraph in particular makes me laugh though…
One was on a Saturday and the whole road was shut all day, and then 10 minutes after the road opened at 10 o’clock another lorry hit the bridge again
examiner.co.uk/news/west-yor … g-13818887
A great effort by the Gees driver, approximately 100 yards from their yard!
Yard? I think that the term yard is stretching it a bit mate, I reckon 3 units and a Sprinter van would fill it. Probably explains why they love to leave trailers at customers sites or any spare piece of hard standing they come across!
Network Rail is urging HGV drivers to stop striking railway bridges, they should have said this before now. This statement could have saved countless bridge strikes. At least it is out now, so no more bridge strikes from now on.
and that numpty with the container trying toi get under a 13.9…unbelievable…they should start taking their licences off of them…may reduce some of the accidents…or give ALL DRIVERS a measuring stick/device.
Is part of the problem drivers are guessing heights? All our trailers have the height written on them, but I’ve also pulled trailers that don’t. If I can’t find the height anywhere, no measuring stick, and no one to ask I assume I’m 16ft for the purpose of route planning haha
Rowley010:
Is part of the problem drivers are guessing heights? All our trailers have the height written on them, but I’ve also pulled trailers that don’t. If I can’t find the height anywhere, no measuring stick, and no one to ask I assume I’m 16ft for the purpose of route planning haha
When I worked at Blake’s trailers had heights marked, but sometimes, with a different unit, or the wheels up, they could be inches taller. I got caught out at Blackwall once where the actual height, as measured by security, was 3 inches more than the height on the trailer.
It’s hard to measure a 13/14/15 foot trailer with a steel tape - what’s needed is simple. ALL trailers should have the height from the bottom of the trailer to the top marked clearly in imperial and in metric. Then it would be easy for a driver to measure the ground to trailer height and add the two together.
You can’t educate pork.
Santa:
Rowley010:
Is part of the problem drivers are guessing heights? All our trailers have the height written on them, but I’ve also pulled trailers that don’t. If I can’t find the height anywhere, no measuring stick, and no one to ask I assume I’m 16ft for the purpose of route planning hahaWhen I worked at Blake’s trailers had heights marked, but sometimes, with a different unit, or the wheels up, they could be inches taller. I got caught out at Blackwall once where the actual height, as measured by security, was 3 inches more than the height on the trailer.
It’s hard to measure a 13/14/15 foot trailer with a steel tape - what’s needed is simple. ALL trailers should have the height from the bottom of the trailer to the top marked clearly in imperial and in metric. Then it would be easy for a driver to measure the ground to trailer height and add the two together.
Or for a fraction of the cost of a bridge strike companies could invest in an electronic measuring device at the exit to their yard like DFDS at Immingham have, gives you an accurate reading of your height as you leave
Just now it seems to be any bridge or level crossing a hayton coulthard b&m driver goes near
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the maoster:
Yard? I think that the term yard is stretching it a bit mate, I reckon 3 units and a Sprinter van would fill it. Probably explains why they love to leave trailers at customers sites or any spare piece of hard standing they come across!
Ha ha, you’re not wrong. I’ve driven past on a weekend and seen all their units parked up, crammed in. Bet it’s fun digging motor out of there on a Monday morning!
mbax81:
How high-sided lorries are giving railway bridges a 'battering' - YorkshireLiveA great effort by the Gees driver, approximately 100 yards from their yard!
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You want to see the comment in the last two paragraphs of that report.
The “Canopener Bridge” in America seems to be hit right and regularly. There is even a website called 11foot8 showing you footage of all the strikes 
The network rail campaign is in our local rag this week. theboltonnews.co.uk/news/156 … nts-anchor
one less bridge to worry about…the 14’6’’ rail at Blurton,Stoke area.demolished at the weekend. (not by me 
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The bridge in Ely, is mostly walloped by van drivers in high-top sprinters, and rental Luton transit’s, unless you count the muppet in the straw lorry a while back.