It did used to be 13’4",I used to go through with a 13’3" a few years back,don’t know why it was changed to 13’ 
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When it was resurfaced and the drains repaired and with new lights it was changed.
And 4M is 13’ 1 and 31/64 " to be precise. Just easier to put 13’ .
The barrier of shame looked like a humiliating holding pen for naughty children,traffic going past can see you sat there, I am waiting for a driver to sue for damages at being kept there and getting the pi55 taking out of him.
Maybe some have been tempted to drive through the barrier and do a runner.
He’d have been buggered with this then… 
3 wheeler:
It did used to be 13’4",I used to go through with a 13’3" a few years back,don’t know why it was changed to 13’
When it was resurfaced and the drains repaired and with new lights it was changed.
And 4M is 13’ 1 and 31/64 " to be precise. Just easier to put 13’ .
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Cheers 3 wheeler
Now I know,not been that way for a long time.
bigvern1:
truckman020:
if he cant speak English [even basic]and could not read the signs then don’t come to the uk,i have no sympathy for drivers who come here and cannot speak English and cannot understand our signs [and no never been to Europe and would not want to]although to be fair some English drivers have been caught out as well at blackwall tunnelDaft answer. I cant speak Danish, Norweigan, German, French etc…And I drive to these places a lot. I can read numbers just fine. So I shouldn’t go there because I can’t speak the lingo? OK then, because you say so.
as I said I don’t go over the water as the saying goes,never have done not interested,i got the part wrong about bridge height numbers,maybe he does read numbers fine ,but if there are written instructions in English on the matrix ie overheight vehicle flashing,if he cant understand that,[basic English]then he will be buggered and cause problems for himself and others,like I said no sympathy for drivers like that,i have been on that section of rd and been held up because drivers have gone past and had to be reversed up by police or other
truckman020:
bigvern1:
truckman020:
if he cant speak English [even basic]and could not read the signs then don’t come to the uk,i have no sympathy for drivers who come here and cannot speak English and cannot understand our signs [and no never been to Europe and would not want to]although to be fair some English drivers have been caught out as well at blackwall tunnelDaft answer. I cant speak Danish, Norweigan, German, French etc…And I drive to these places a lot. I can read numbers just fine. So I shouldn’t go there because I can’t speak the lingo? OK then, because you say so.
as I said I don’t go over the water as the saying goes,never have done not interested,i got the part wrong about bridge height numbers,maybe he does read numbers fine ,but if there are written instructions in English on the matrix ie overheight vehicle flashing,if he cant understand that,[basic English]then he will be buggered and cause problems for himself and others,like I said no sympathy for drivers like that,i have been on that section of rd and been held up because drivers have gone past and had to be reversed up by police or other
Take it you don’t go to North or West Wales or the Gaellic speaking parts of Scotland either, defiantly a contender for a place in the top ten of most ridiculous posts at the end of the year
if he cant speak English [even basic]and could not read the signs then don’t come to the uk,i have no sympathy for drivers who come here and cannot speak English and cannot understand our signs [and no never been to Europe and would not want to]although to be fair some English drivers have been caught out as well at blackwall tunnel
It shows… mate we all make mistakes - but I have driven most of Europe in my time with very little local language skills. You will find that most guys that have done Europe are far more tolerant of foreign drivers over here
I have a Story to Tell.
Few years back i was on my way to work coming down Jamaica road up and thro Rotherhithe tunnel. It was 7 - 8 in the morning. Just before the tunnel on the roundabout i find a 44t Artic aiming into the tunnel. No way he would ever fit. Van fits just. 7,5 toner maybe. 44t Never.
No joke. LT Number plate. That was a rare sight, i felt pity for a guy. Rush hour and so on.
I flagged him and told him to follow me. I can speak Lithunian so was he. 
He agreed. pulled over few hundred meters away THE OTHER WAY, hehe the one he can fit.
I checked his destination and to my surprise it was Stansted Town on M11. WTF he was doing there no one will ever know. Sat nav was suspect number one.
I wasn’t in a hurry to work so i escorted the guy to A2 Blackwall tunnel, then wrote turn by turn directions to M11.
Some Trucknet members may recall the checkpoints in Spain, at first they were intimidating and alarming.
A three laned road or a two laned road would be coned off and all traffic would filter in one
lane very slowly.
It was like being on a movie set, personel tanks, jeeps armed up, soldiers and police wearing baraclavas, armed with automatic weapons.
Stingers at the road side to puncture tyres.
If at night ,flares on the road and flashing beacons.
It was to catch ETA terrorists, at their peak, they were bombing tourist resorts to affect the financial revenues.
Trucks were let through, only cars and vans got a thorough search.
The checkpoint would be in random areas and random times, day or night .
Big dogs there and sniffer dogs.
Went through a similar style checkpoint in Germany a couple of months ago. Just before Czech border. Was same, trucks waved through but a bit scary at first. People make mistakes, nationality is irrelevant
i was sent to westminster ind est lateish one friday…i had a13’6 ridgid… the chap said that,s your load there.
.it was paper board.i got some of that plastic banding stuff and measured from the body to the floor back
and front. after loading i checked again. wow that looks a good three inches…no woolwich ferry for me.
off i go and as i passed the overhead lights i breathed in for more weight…straight through
no messing. it must have been hellish close but did it save me some time…