Think Twice . .

[punyXpress]

. . before slipstreaming that truck!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c0_1351184890

[andrewsmith]

:lol:

[Sid Squid]

Should this thread be called: 'How To Wheelie Your Lorry'?

[Ch00]

doh

[davepreston]

but they just wanted a diy convertable truck

[P-J]

Brilliant....just Brilliant :lol:

[squirrel_hunter]

While it is amusing watching an extraordinary amount of fail on the part of the drivers, one has to wonder if some of that fail needs to be attributed to the city planners. After all once is unfortunate, twice is careless, 14 times might require someone take a look at doing a little more than a flashing light and a sign.

[Biker Biggles]

But these are Americans.No amount of signage will make them take any notice whatsoever.

[Joe Marcon]

Haha brightened my day

[Specialone]

Thats just crazy, im in agreement though, if there is that many doing that then something more permanant needs to be done.
They could put height sensors between two poles or lamposts 50 yards up and down the road that sets off an alarm or warning signs specific to that vehicle.

As majority of the trucks were getting hit at roughly the same height, the bridge height needs increasing and/or the road lowering.

[carelesschucca]

Theres a bridge in Glasgow that gets this fairly often. Always makes me wonder...

[BanannaMan]

But these are Americans.No amount of signage will make them take any notice whatsoever.


+1
Americans don't read signs.
Not just dumb or inattentive, most are awful drivers as well.


Saw a bloke in a car park run past one sign, through caution tape and over a traffic cone, that were between 2 more signs , just to park in 'WET CEMENT'.
Seems it was his usual parking spot. LOL




While it is amusing watching an extraordinary amount of fail on the part of the drivers, one has to wonder if some of that fail needs to be attributed to the city planners. After all once is unfortunate, twice is careless, 14 times might require someone take a look at doing a little more than a flashing light and a sign.




Apparently the city planners are just as intelligent as the drivers.
You'd think if nothing else they would tire of repairing the bridge.

[Sid Squid]

On the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel, (and plenty of others elsewhere), there are rows of poles suspended vertically on chains above the road, this allows drivers of overheight vehicles to smash the crap out of the rooves of their lorries etc without wrecking them completely or wedging something in the tunnel. Unlike a sign or flashing lights you really really cannot ignore this, you and everyone in the vicinity are well aware of someone bashing into those, as the noise is very noticeable. I remember the first time I heard someone hit them - scared the life out of me!

http://www.greenwich-guide.org.uk/assets/16.jpg

And it isn't just the Yanks - there's a display as you approach the tunnel that tells you the amount of overheight vehicles that had to use the escape slip road in the last month, the last time I saw it, it read 64, which is not unusual.

[Dicky Ticker]

Blackwall tunnel is notorious,different heights for different lanes and regular hold ups for people who ignore them,crash through the poles and carry on so not just Americans who ignore signage.

[Ch00]

Blackwall Tunnel is getting better with the new overheight lane system there. Less vehicles being smashed up. Less tickets being given out and most days less queuing (but don't count today :P)