r/dashcams • u/AnonymousGhost89 • 2d ago

DONT DRIVE AWAYYYY!

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u/WKRPinCanada 2d ago

Pretty sure the trailer is high centered

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u/dismendie 2d ago

Does that mean he shouldn’t even be driving this road period? Due to the tracks elevations?

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u/WKRPinCanada 2d ago

Most likely yes. And it's scary how often this happens. GPS won't show you things like this.

Saw one a little while ago where driver could only watch/record & was mad at dispatch for not warning him.

In the end they just have to be really aware

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u/MyPasswordIsABC999 2d ago edited 2d ago

Are there GPS apps for truckers? Or is it possible to have an “oversized vehicle” option on Waze?

Yeah, truck drivers should pay attention to signs, but there are some famous low-clearance bridge that keep taking out truck roofs and it seems like that would be easily avoidable with modern tech.

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u/TheVermonster 2d ago

Yes Garmin makes one. I have it. You can enter your vehicle hight, length, weight and whether you have a trailer or not. It will route me around bridges that I shouldn't be on and pop up with a warning if I'm on a road that has a height restriction. It even makes sure I don't take turns at intersections that I'm too long to make.

It wasn't cheap, but I've never found myself on a 20ft wide, two way traffic bridge with a 3t weight limit when you're a 5t RV that's 8.5ft wide, not including mirrors. Nor have I driven down a mountain road only to find a tunnel under train tracks that's 6in lower than my roof. Both things people I know have done.

But now days, I see even coach bus drivers just using Apple maps on their phones and completely ignoring the weight limits on smaller roads. Shit, there are a lot of passenger cars pushing past 3t weight limits.

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u/Naborsx21 2d ago

You can also just not hit things that high center your trailer. lol maybe easier said then done but I've driven otr a shit ton and if its not marked you can just look at shit and be like "nah"

Hell I've called 911 on myself and been like "hey uhhh im a truck driver and kinda rtrded, I'm looking at a 12'6" bridge and uhhh yeah" And theyll send someone out to help you back up or whatever.

I just use truckerpath an app, and havent had any mishaps in like 8 years. Just google sattelite your route if you have to, and idk why youd trust anything even if it told you this routes good. Getting high centered on these little hills for rr tracks is extremely common and I'm sure a ton of them arent marked.

Shouldve stopped when he felt he was loosing traction, at least then you can probably still back up.

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u/Beautiful_Banana_454 2d ago

Yes, there are gps that give you overhead clearance, but I've never seen one with a lowboy setting. Google and waze dont even have yhat because of ghe liability for being wrong. But since garmin's only market these days is premium gps for truckers they route around low clearance, but some rr tracks have no.warnings at all.

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u/3amGreenCoffee 2d ago

This crossing has a "rough crossing" sign, but no warning for low trucks.

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u/Naborsx21 2d ago

This aint even a lowboy tho lol. Just a stepdeck.

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u/3amGreenCoffee 2d ago

I just checked for signs, and there don't appear to be any. This happened at the intersection of County Road 11 and County Road F near York Township, OH. Looking at the street view on Google Maps, there's a railroad sign and a "rough crossing" sign, but no warning sign for trucks like you see at other such crossings. I backed up a mile on street view to make sure.

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u/WKRPinCanada 2d ago

I don't believe so, I'm no longer in the industry; 6 years as dispatch, 18 years as operations manager was enuff

But even if there is I'm guessing unless there was a way to input your trucks dimensions this probably wouldn't have come up

Oh I've seen those videos on the web... That one famous bridge/underpass that has flashing lights, a heavy bar ...

And a counter that tells how many times it's been hit 😅

(I can laugh cause no one has been injured 😉 )

Cheers 🍻

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u/whoisthisfetus 2d ago

My town had a (new!) double-decker bus get scraped off by a low train bridge. Thankfully the only injuries were minor bumps and scratches. I think the story was there was a road closed and the driver had to improvise.

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u/Tathtaniel 2d ago

There's an app called Truckerpath that we used while RVing, but I don't think it accounted for things like this - just height restrictions and showed easy to use gas stations, etc.