Eleven Foot-Eight

My trailer is supposed to be 11'8", but only have a couple inches to spare backing into shop with 12'6" door opening. I need to take some measurements.

Ha. Makes me want to measure my trailer height.

I almost clipped a overhang at a gas station in a small town once. I pulled up by the door and parked. Got out to see that there was a overhang on the building and if I had pulled up one foot further I would have hit it. Over confidence on being able to pull my 22 foot TT anywhere is a bad thing that I have to watch out for.

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Hiker_01 wrote:
What I always wonder about when seeing things like this (and Davenport IA had a truck eating bridge) is why doesn't either the city or the bridge owners (railroad) do something to permanently raise the bridge or lower the road. Yes, it's the driver's responsibility to avoid, but how much damage, over the long run, does each of those hits do to the bridge structure?

Nothing is happening to the bridge. There's a big steel beam in front of it that "alters" the height of the vehicles.

agesilaus wrote:

Hiker_01 wrote:
What I always wonder about when seeing things like this (and Davenport IA had a truck eating bridge) is why doesn't either the city or the bridge owners (railroad) do something to permanently raise the bridge or lower the road. Yes, it's the driver's responsibility to avoid, but how much damage, over the long run, does each of those hits do to the bridge structure?

Yeah I was wondering the same thing, at least they should add rumble strips. Lowering the roadway seems like the best solution.

Simple answer MONEY!!

Take a close look at the videos, looks like at least four roads inter sect there and to make a standard 13' 6" would require dropping the road surface at least 2'. So road surface, drainage and other utility.

In the town I grew up in we had an RR under pass on a side street seemed like it was about 7' or so VERY low.

Wish I would have had a video camera the day the county truck was dumping grael on the roads and forgot about he high way over head bridge! That made a lot of noise when he hit!

My 5vr is 13'4" at top of A/C Unit

For 7 yrs we traveled FT using secondary/backroads.
Many low height but they were well marked long before so you could bypass/take alt. route without issues

Only encountered 3 low height bridges/overpasses that were not marked until we got to them.
2 of them it was very obvious that we would not fit even if there had not been any signage. Turn around and use different route. No biggie

The 3rd one.......
That one didn't give us much of a choice and height was only posted ON the overpass.
We had come over the overpass only to find that the road circled right around and merged with the road that went under it.
11'8" posted and no where to go. You could see all the damaged concrete from run ins.
Stopped dead in the lane. Couldn't turn left due to high concrete medium separating the roadway and backing up was limited plus there was a line of cars behind us.
Got out to horns honking..walked back and was going to ask folks to slip by us then attempt to back up to a wider area and get out of the way.
About 5 vehicles back a old guy got out of his truck and YELLED.......you'll be fine, sign is wrong, they redid roadway lowering it couple years ago and never redid height.

So we very slowly proceeded forward with door open, standing up and idling thru

As Maxwell Smart would say.......Missed it by_____________that much !

Actually had more issues within CGs then out on the roadways traveling.

Hiker_01 wrote:
What I always wonder about when seeing things like this (and Davenport IA had a truck eating bridge) is why doesn't either the city or the bridge owners (railroad) do something to permanently raise the bridge or lower the road. Yes, it's the driver's responsibility to avoid, but how much damage, over the long run, does each of those hits do to the bridge structure?

Yeah I was wondering the same thing, at least they should add rumble strips. Lowering the roadway seems like the best solution.

11' 4", we have that one under an old RR bridge about 8 blocks from where I live. It gets rental trucks all the time, so much the local rental places tell people to avoid 1st Ave near out down town.