Damn Trucks

[Eddieb]

Had a bit of a close call this afternoon following a LinFox transport truck underneath the Normandale overbridge in Lower Hutt.

Said truck was a couple of inches too high for the bridge and scrapped the entire length of it's second trailer along the underside of the bridge, showering me in tennis ball sized bits of concrete and other debris and ripping off a 6-8 foot length of metal railing and leaving it hanging over the road.

Theres no way the trucky could not have realised what happened but he just kept on going into Lower hutt. I was on the way to the girlfriends so as soon as I arrived rang the local copshop who told me someone else had rung it in and they had a car on the way down.

I didn't get the plate unfortunately as I was too busy stopping and checking everything was ok. I hope the cops can and do track down which driver it was.

[Milky]

gutted.... glad to hear you are ok though. Wasnt there another case where a double decker full of revellers did the same thing in the UK? only in that case the top level was populated by people

[wkid_one]

That is a fucken HUGE fine for the driver - pity you didn't get the rego...

[dangerous]

Ohhh i'd say that he would have knowen and if he did then he should of stoped to check his load, but if he dident relise then you cant blame him for not stopping.

Does this bridge have a hight warning sign above it?? If not then the driver would not expect to of hit it, if so then that means that it is lower than the legal max hight of a truck (4.250m) and his truck would not of been higher than this so he could not of hit it. But he obvisuly did so something isent right.

I once hit number 1 tunnel on the Kaikoura cost and I sure as hell felt it but as it is a one way and is rounded at the top means that you have to be perfictly lined up and going straight which is tricky when it bends at each end. I always went down to 2nd from then on.

ps: when I was in Brissie a mate took the roofs of a few cars on the top deck of a 8 car carier

[Zed]

gutted.... glad to hear you are ok though. Wasnt there another case where a double decker full of revellers did the same thing in the UK? only in that case the top level was populated by people

Auckland Southern Motorway several years back, a northbound double decker bus with an open roof was transporting a party of people into town when a guy died. As the bus was going underneath the Penrose overbridge the guy was taken out because he was standing up on the top deck, possibly on one of the seats...horrible way to go!

All those type bridges have height measurment signs on them, or they should have, and any good truck driver should know his load height surely?


Zed

[Skyryder]

Not long ago I was down below the Waimak bridge fishing when I noticed that the shingle road that passes below the road bridge had been blocked off. Found out later that a truck trailering a loader passed below taking out one of the concrete girder supports. Must have cost thousands to fix.

Skyryder

[maybe]

Wouldn,t think it would be hard for the Police to find the truck......you have the company name cops should be able to tell by damage caused to the vehicle unless they all hit bridges.

[LB]

Eddie, the company must know where their trucks are at any given time, so they must know which one it was. We'll have a look on the way to/from work to see if there is a height sign.

You're bloody lucky that you got off as lightly as you did - imagine if he'd had say a load of timber or something and that bits of the load came back to hit you.....

Must have been scary for you - you wouldn't have realised what was happening for a few seconds.

[Firefight]

Ohhh i'd say that he would have knowen and if he did then he should of stoped to check his load, but if he dident relise then you cant blame him for not stopping.

Does this bridge have a hight warning sign above it?? If not then the driver would not expect to of hit it, if so then that means that it is lower than the legal max hight of a truck (4.250m) and his truck would not of been higher than this so he could not of hit it. But he obvisuly did so something isent right.

I once hit number 1 tunnel on the Kaikoura cost and I sure as hell felt it but as it is a one way and is rounded at the top means that you have to be perfictly lined up and going straight which is tricky when it bends at each end. I always went down to 2nd from then on.

ps: when I was in Brissie a mate took the roofs of a few cars on the top deck of a 8 car carier

Law states 4.25m or any leesor height that is required to clear..etc etc, so in fact there is no defense, have hit Marton rail bridge myself a few years ago, and had a long debate with CVIU cop, got off a huge fine, manily because the bridge remained intact, My advice would be to contact LInfox as well as cops, can get you the name of Linfox transport manager here in AK if you want,EB pm me.


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[Ms Piggy]

Wow! You are very bloody lucky it didn't take you out with all the debris! I'm sure they'll have no trouble tracking him down though. I mean all it would take is a cop in the next town to look out for that Trucking company & I'm sure the damage would be more than visible to the naked eye.

[NordieBoy]

I once hit number 1 tunnel on the Kaikoura cost and I sure as hell felt it but as it is a one way and is rounded at the top means that you have to be perfictly lined up and going straight which is tricky when it bends at each end.

They have cut some rectangular notches out of the tunnels now about where a trailer would have clipped the tops

Well I assume they were cut out - May have just been a big truck.

[dangerous]

They have cut some rectangular notches out of the tunnels now about where a trailer would have clipped the tops

Well I assume they were cut out - May have just been a big truck.

umm yeah! you may have seen it as the co is/was? based in Nelson, a 8 wheeler over length max hight 16L V8 Nissin with Furniture express on it

[FROSTY:Me]

guys um if it was a lindfox truck thiose are solid top curtain siders.
In other words built to be under the legal max height.
so if it clipped the bridge then there was something very wrong
-Ive heard of roading companies resealing the road and raising it so much trucks no longer cleared bridges.

[wkid_one]

guys um if it was a lindfox truck thiose are solid top curtain siders.
In other words built to be under the legal max height.
so if it clipped the bridge then there was something very wrong
-Ive heard of roading companies resealing the road and raising it so much trucks no longer cleared bridges.

Not all standard sizes tho Frosty - coulda been an outta towna who came the Gorge way in and going out the taka's.

All I know is the guy will be gutted for the damage done!

[toads]

me and the kids were on our way home last night, and came around a corner to see a logging truck on our side of the road, with it's laden trailer on two wheels, just on the point of balance, scared the crap out of us all, it lurched frighteneningly then went back onto it's own side of the road, fortunately I was doing about 70km at the time, had I been doing the usual 100, I would have ended up as a statistic, I was too busy watching his tipping trailer too notice his number plate unfortunately, very bloody dangerous