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- Seth024, on 10/11/2007, -1/+257"Six inches can make a big difference."
Best quote ever. - trghpy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+137"accidents of this kind were almost always averted. When a too-tall vehicle enters the toll plaza, an electronic sensor is tripped, several stoplights are activated and police officers at the plaza use a loudspeaker to order the driver to stop."
@mvandemar
Whats the old expression?
Just when you build something idiot proof, they build a bigger idiot!
I bet the spark show from behind the truck was probably pretty impressive. Does anyone have pictures? - mvandemar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+120FTA: "A Texas driver who failed to heed height warnings on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel early Thursday reached Manhattan to find that his truck's top had peeled back. "
Lincoln Tunnel, 1.5 miles, how the hell does someone drive all the way through the damn tunnel from New Jersey to Manhattan and NOT notice that the roof of their rig is being torn off by the ceiling...? - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -1/+81So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time...
(Grampa Simpson's stories are just as riveting as yours) - jtorkbob, on 10/11/2007, -2/+75Your vivid storytelling has me spellbound.
- charliecharlos, on 10/11/2007, -25/+96Anybody else read the title and thought it referred to store clearance signs?
- lozzd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+65imadeaprofile:
Well I guess if you're ignoring loads of flashing signs and a police officer through a loudspeaker telling you to stop, some person in their tiny little car isn't really going to do much good either. - Rezatron, on 10/11/2007, -1/+63One trick is to tell em stories that don’t go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
- atbnet, on 10/11/2007, -5/+63"The Lincoln Tunnel’s center tube — one of three — was closed until 6:15 a.m."
Oh man, I bet Sen. Stevens was pissed! This guy was clogging the tubes with his big truck. - hydratedsquash, on 10/11/2007, -2/+48WELCOME TO MANHATTAN.
- emory0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+45You all got it wrong.
This guys a HERO!
Hey got the stuff into Manhattan successfully, after all. He saw that sign and said, ***** it, I'm going for it.
He ain't takin' no backtalk from physics or geometry: He made it happen! - skyfire1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+41Look in your spam box to fix that.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+38Real crazy Texas cowboys ain't gonna be stopped by no lame yankee contraption.
- subxero37, on 10/11/2007, -5/+39I like the first sentence, too: "It was just six inches."
- RamezaniK, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33Probably because there's only a portion of the tunnel that dips to 13 feet of clearance. Doesn't have to be the whole thing.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31"thats it? one ***** picture?"
@twit987: There's a whole article. - PhillipJFry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30sorry man, the joke's on you. Haven't you ever seen bugs bunny? That's what he would say, "What a maroon"
- polyGone, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26local != small
- shaelen, on 10/11/2007, -5/+31Another sweet example as to why proper grammar. Always helps get your story across.
- silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+27looks like a sardine can when you peel 'em open
- meldroc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24Having talked to a couple truck drivers, I can safely say there's absolutely no excuse for this *****. If you're driving an 18-wheeler, you should know your truck's height, have maps with you that indicate minimum clearances, and plan your route accordingly. That on top of the other warnings the driver got mean he damn well should have figured out what was going to happen long before it happened.
- blueracer6, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23In summary, he was doing it wrong.
- imadeaprofile, on 10/11/2007, -7/+28how did no one else in the tunnel notice either?
the polite thing to do would be to honk your horn and try to tell him the roof of his truck is being peeled back by 1.5 miles of tunnel roof. - ImOnlySleeping, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23That's what she said
- phoggey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Bush isn't from texas. He lives here, he isn't from here. Stupidass.
- sasr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16How to explain to one pissed off police officer: "Hello officer, no im not stuck, im just delivering this bridge and I seem to have run out of gas"
- Spacenoodle, on 10/11/2007, -11/+26people like this are *****. this time the accident screwed him over sure, but what if he was sideswiping cars for 1.5 miles instead and didn't notice? he should lose his license, be forced to pay for the damages to the tunnel, and have to take driving classes. a funny story like this it's all to easy to forget that car accidents kill people (lots of people), and car vs truck accidents are almost always fatal. this guy is a ticking timebomb just waiting to explode and kill someone, he should be taken off the roads. driving is a privilege not a right.
- polyGone, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17Blow me. I'm not a software engineer. This is a 'sit around and wait for the RF system to go down' job. I go to school for 3D modeling/Graphic Design and this is the easiest way to scrape out a buck, while I'm still in school.
....and yes there are 5 other dudes who work in 'IT' and they do write software............ - empressofmetal, on 10/11/2007, -12/+26I've seen trucks get stuck underneath overpasses in NY. It's not a pretty site. I've only seem minor incidences where they'd have to let the air out of the tires to get out. Never saw something ripped apart like this. Jeez!
- Lister169, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15 “He misjudged the height of the tunnel, and once he was inside it he didn’t realize the damage he was doing.”
What a maroon... - skyfire1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Grampas kick ass.
- CatalystDM, on 10/11/2007, -7/+17Local trucking companies have IT departments?
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Erm no, that's a photo of Los Angeles, that you posted, which has only been viewed 90 times. And more than likely all those times have been from people here thinking that it had something to do with the story. Wrong city, wrong subject, wrong wrong wrong.
Go away spammer. I reported your photo 18 times to the owners of the site as being offensive. - drafhk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9"it was just six inches"
That's what she said. - GiJoeBob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down - blurplevtx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Sure they do, just about every large trucking company (like FedEx, Yellow, Roadway) have locations all over the country. I bet there is one local to you.
- rmmcclay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I was an interstate 18-wheeler driver for 11 years and it happened to me
a couple of times...but the results were not as dramatic...
I carried a bridge height book with me to plan routes...but sometimes
the data would be out of date. All it takes is one or two repavings to
raise the surface. =) - spectre_25gt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I'm not sure how true this is, but I've heard that a lot of tunnels have the clearances listed as being about 6 inches shorter than would actually fit and that most truckers know that. That being the case, this would make a bit more sense, but you'd think the driver would have realized that there was a problem after the top of the trailer started dragging on the ground.
- thomas, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10I can understand making a mistake and trying to drive into the tunnel but why would you keep going?
- qwertydvorak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7@bobmagoo: "and traffic doesn't work like water through a hose, if you tighten the nozzle, everything slows down."
but it would be funny if traffic shot out at a higher velocity. - skoober, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12eheh, yup.. sale items. Misleading... yet strangely tantalizing
- highlyirritable, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7This is one incident where the guy was even 6" over the sign, but there are places where the asphalt has been built up so high from repaving without pulling up the old asphalt that the signs are pretty much void.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Worst recently one we had here was two construction guys sitting on the back of the truck. The truck made it under the overpass but their heads didn't.
- illcendiary, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Being from Edinburg, Texas, I can safely say that this is the first and only time in history you will see the words, "from Edinburg, Texas" in a story in the New York Times.
- merwin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7That was exactly what I was thinking... What is up with Texans not wanting to follow the rules? First, the Geneva Convention, now clearance signs...
- RooDoG, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I laughed pretty hard when it said he drove through the entire 1.5mile long tunnel before stopping... cause that would seem like the MOST LOGICAL thing to do when your trailer is hitting the ceiling of a tunnel, just drive through the whole damn thing. So who gave this guy his License to drive a semi.
- ThE0eNiGmA, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I don't know about a time bomb, before this he had a spotless safety record for 4 years with the company. If he really was a time bomb, you would think there would be hints along the way. It looks to me that the bomb already exploded. Though, you REALLY have to be a dumbass to pull this off.
He wasn't a Jersey resident, was he?
/Jersey resident - TheLoneWolf071, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"Hrm, 12' 6" clearance, and i'm 13', Damn..." *looks both ways* " Luckily There are no cops around"
This is how it all begins... - highlyirritable, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Ever driven through the Lincoln Tunnel? There is no way traffic was moving fast enough for a sideswiping incident.
- phavn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5There is absolutely no excuse for this, however what you all don't realize is most of bridges around this area have 13'0" clearance signs but at same time they have 14'0" clearance. I am sure his dispatcher gave him a go or some truck driver on CB radio decided to mess up with him and told him this tunnel has 13'6"+ clearance. Don't be fast on judging someone when you have no idea what you talking about.
BTW, clearance signs indicate the LOWEST POINT of underpass. Underpasses are never even all the way through. This truck driver must have drove all the way through but clipped his trailer on the exit where clearance indeed was less than 13'6" inches.
You must be asking where do I know it from? I used to work as a truck driver. -
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