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Vehicle heights and why they are important
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Aug 15, 2007 1:44pm
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Just a thought to those people coming and going so much this summer. Sometimes it is well worth it to have an idea of how tall your vehicle is. We have an employee visiting us from Texas and he was using our company truck.... note was using. Today he went to get lunch and went under an 8'11" bridge.... well, not all the way, because the truck was like 10 feet tall.

It no longer looks like a U-haul truck, it has the top completely sheared off. I have not laughed so hard at work in a while.

And also, remember to stay at the scene of an accident ; ) The police were not impressed when they tracked him down to here at the factory and we were all rolling on the floor laughing.

moonduck
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Reply to: #118433 by Moonduck
Aug 15, 2007 4:22pm
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Moonduck---I must say that you are taking this WAS very well!! Maybe you can make a traveling letterbox for those who have joined this exclusive club! "If you have ever sheared off the top of your truck---you may stamp in!" Glad no one got hurt!!
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Reply to: #118493 by System
Aug 15, 2007 4:58pm
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oh wow! Both stories are too funny.
Hmm, can't imagine speeding up to fit into something though.
Both stories made me laugh. Yet, I could imagine the initial panic I woudl feel
if I was in a bank and that had happened.
Moonduck, I bet this one will keep you laughing for a while.
Pilgrims
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Reply to: #118433 by Moonduck
Aug 15, 2007 6:14pm
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ohhh this reminds me. when I was in HS I worked for a flour mill on the Mississippi. The biggest customer was a plant in the same town. one day they sent a tanker to get flour, no big deal. however, it was a new driver from a dif town. instead of taking the truck ramp back up the hill (most towns are built on top of the bluffs), he tried to go up the bluff by a road the locals called "killer hill" not only was it too steep to go up but there was a rail tressle over the beginning of the road. Well this driver decides to try and rams his trailer into the tressle. duh! but then the id-yut tries to BACK UP THE HILL!!! He gets the trailer wedged in there and they have to let the air out of his tires to get it out and call the Union Pacific to see if their tressle is okay! There was a lot of foul language that day!
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Reply to: #118525 by Happy B
Aug 15, 2007 8:49pm
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This reminds me of a guy I knew years ago, who was an avid biker. He had a roof-top carrier for his bikes, which added a good deal of height to his car. Driving down the road and went through an underpass. Horror-stricken to see his (very expensive) bike bouncing down the highway after it was knocked off the car.

BirdWoman/Waltzing Pigs
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Reply to: #118433 by Moonduck
Aug 16, 2007 7:16am
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Well, what's even more funny.... or not, depending on how you look at it.... I went to check out the scene last night. He really smashed into the sign ON the bridge and there's huge gouges in the road where the trailer hitch went into the asphalt when he "wheelied" the truck.

There's all signs everywhere that I forgot about (you tend to living here I guess) saying that it's a Homeland Security watch area and ALL suspicious activity is to be reported to the proper authorities. Guess I can't think of anything more suspicious than a U-haul looking truck slamming into a railroad bridge, lol!!!!

Loved the stories, I've always wondered what it would look like if one of these accidents ever happened. Now I know ; )

moonduck
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Reply to: #118497 by pilgrimsinthisland
Sep 6, 2007 4:59pm
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Hmm, can't imagine speeding up to fit into something though.


It's really just simple physics. As you speed up, not only does time slow down, but objects shrink. *nodding* It's all part of that theory of relativity.

Obviously, though, he wasn't going fast enough. You have to get near the speed of light to see any noticeable affect, and it doesn't sound like he got that close.

-- Ryan