I was in Durham, NC today and noted that there is a second underpass about a half mile west of the infamous crossing that is also only 11 ft 8 inches. It's on 9th street. I guess the difference is that 9th is not a main truck route nor has anyone set up a camera. It does have the same heavy steel I-beams ahead of it that the other crossing has to protect the bridge.
Randy Vos
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Eisenhower is normally closed to hazmat, which means going over Loveland Pass.
But when Loveland Pass is closed due to weather, they allow hazmat through the tunnels. The first 10 minutes of every hour, all traffic is stopped, tunnels are cleared, hazmat goes through, tunnels are cleared, normal traffic goes.
It may be that NC was a state that had a lower height limit before congress passed the uniform truck dimension law. ( revised several times and another effort underway ). Know Virginia did and probably Illinois looking at all their low bridges.
Phoebe VetDownstate NY does, indeed, have parkways where commercial vehicles are not allowed except for some very limited circumstances.
And intentionally designed, under the direction of the infamous Robert Moses, to have restricted clearances to keep the 'usual' sorts of commercial vehicle off them.
Every so often there is a major disaster on the East River Drive under Carl Schurz Park, where there is a height restriction EXITING southbound that is not seen anywhere coming up on the usual roads from the Southern United States. One poor driver from North Carolina or thereabouts had a full trailer load of sheetrock wall panels ... stacked vertically on his trailer. He encountered the gently falling tunnel ceiling while going, probably, at reasonably good speed... a few minutes before morning rush-hour traffic started to build. When my father saw the result, every piece of sheetrock was broken and bent, and acting as a kind of pawl bending the trailer frame down and preventing it from being backed out. Apparently people with hammers had to 'reduce' every single panel, including breaking the gypsum away from the face paper on both sides, to get the thing out...
rvos1979Per Twisted Truckers, the bridge in Enid, OK got another truck today..........
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