The "Fixed" Can Opener Bridge is still claiming victims...

[JohnRBaker]

Since the original thread has been closed (link below), I'm opening a new one.

https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=474760

It appears that despite the fact that they raised the bridge eight inches back in 2019, the infamous 'can opener' bridge is still getting hit:

Nom, Nom, Nom: Infamous Truck-Eating Bridge Claims New Victim Despite Changes

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/durham-can-opener-truck-bridge_n_6181f84be4b0a518ac98d917

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[Demented]

Subscribe to the youtube for many laughs. Saw a box truck get peeled open over the weekend. No amount of warnings will stop some truckers.

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I once spent a day at a busy boat launching ramp.
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Another fellow there said that he lived nearby and watching the boat launch for a couple of hours was his weekly Saturday entertainment.

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[spsalso]

I noticed that the truck-eating bridge eats mostly rental trucks.

I was at a boat ramp once where one moment the guys were backing their boat and trailer into the water. I turn away for a bit, then turn back. The boat's floating out in the water, and the trailer is nowhere to be seen. On the plus side, their pickup truck is looking OK; so they can go home and tell everyone about how pirates stole their trailer. Or something. Maybe a great white ate it. Yeah, THAT'S what happened!

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[JohnRBaker]

People who own their own trucks, either companies or owner/operators, generally know where the low bridges are and knows how to avoid them. It's the 'weekend' rental guy, helping someone to move, who gets caught by this sort of thing ;-)

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[IRstuff]

#173 looked to be a non-rental; maybe it was borrowed. The owner must be pissed; probably several thousand $ of custom adornments destroyed and not covered by the rental fee.

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[TigerGuy]

The camper and one other truck slowed way down, as if that changes the height of the vehicle.

 

[spsalso]

Years ago I read an article (with pictures) where a nice big semi had hit the bottom of a railroad bridge, and was stuck underneath. And this good Samaritan stops to try to help, maybe with advice or a ride for help.

A train comes along up top. The semi had jogged the track enough so that the train derailed. It was a coal train, and the semi and the nice guy's truck were buried in coal. And coal gondolas.

On the good side, the two guys ran like hell, and.......


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[Sparweb]

Victim 173 is one of my favorites. The exhaust stack flipping through the air is priceless.

 

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