Amazing how many people don’t pay attention to the clearance:
I love it when the first low clearance sign is a block away from the underpass and there’s no place to turn around…
I was just on one of the Facebook railfanning pages. An engineer last night reported a truck stuck under this very bridge 
Ralph
Ken Brunt said:This past spring, after three incidents in one day (at three different underpasses) the CT State DOT decided to put up additional signage in advance of an escape route. About time.
I love it when the first low clearance sign is a block away from the underpass and there's no place to turn around.........;)
Just like how many times do they tell people not to drive on flooded roadways and yet people still do and get stuck.
Of course the “powers that be” see this happen time after time and fail to put up a simple “gate” or overhead warning pole prior to the bridge.
If one person does it, they are an idiot.
If two people do it, they are both idiots.
If dozens of people do it…Well, there is a problem.
I did note however there were a large percentage of rental trucks, the last time those drivers drove a “big rig” was never. 
Mark there is a sacrifice beam place across the face of this bridge, one of the close ups shows it bent. The obvious solution is to drop the grade of the road one foot, but the ultimate responsibility lies with the vehicle drivers, good truck drivers will always tell you KNOW WHAT YOUR DRIVING, including HOW HIGH is your vehicle, if its a rental there are stickers all over the interior stating the overall clearances of the vehicle, you don’t pay attention to them and do something stupid like this its on your neck. I know this because one of my first jobs out of high school was at U-Haul’s repair and refurbishing center where we repaired the damage done by idiots like this, we ALWAYS had work.
Conspiracy theories
- the repair companies pay a percentage to the RR to keep the low clearance.
- the local authorities require the low clearance to help the locals find jobs (at said repair companies)
- underneath the who owns who, the RR runs the local towing and repair.
- The local rental companies locate near said underpasses and purposely buy the higher trucks
All in all an entertaining video… after all, wasn’t me driving any of the trucks…
Lets, see they CAN’T read but have a license, wonder who took the test for them? Maybe the State, RR, and locals should spend some of the Gas TAx money on correcting this problem, oh me oh my then they would not have money to fix the pot holes! It is truly interesting how little attention people pay to there surroundings!
Paul
A simple solution is one that the railroad used many many years ago. How about installing a Tell-tail a block or so before the bridge.
That was awesome…thanks Ray!
That was great, Ray! I love watching people do stupid things! Next time I do something stupid (probably any day now), I’m gonna look back at this video and say, “Well, at least I wasn’t stupid enough to run my truck into a bridge.” Thanks for the post.
-Kevin.
The BNSF main runs right thru downtown Spokane with several “Low Clearance” bridges.
Happens all the time here, as well.
It’s not always like it looks. In Oakland, Calif. during the sixties there was an underpass with very close vertical clearance that was used by trucks pulling containers all the time. All the drivers knew the vertical limitations and went through without incident. One morning for some inexplicable reason three trucks peeled the tops off of their containers.
Turned out the city had resurfaced the pavement without changing the clearance sign. The usual procedure had been to first scrape the old pavement off beneath the bridge before repaving due to the low overhead so changing the sign was not an issue. Someone didn’t get the word and just paved over the old pavement. Whoopee!