Oh man. Another bridge incident. The crane boom being up doesn’t help. There was a place in Winnipeg that used to have an ad in the paper ( this was years ago now ) about every 2 to 3 weeks looking for truck drivers. What the ad didn’t say was that when the guy wasn’t driving, he was supposed to work in the yard. Which would have been fine except yard work included operating the cranes. You were just expected to jump into the thing and know how to operate it. All kinds of bad things happened which led to the guy either quitting or getting fired. Then there would be another ad in the paper.
Not a bridge, but… I followed a jacked-up pickup with a non-emergency light-bar on the top into my parking ramp. There was a free-hanging pvc pipe with the clearance clearly printed on it. It was bright yellow with big black letters no one could miss. The truck hit the warning ‘sign’ at the top of his windscreen. A very short time later, I passed him on just under the first low concrete beam. He was stopped off to the side a bit looking down at what remained of his light bar and a significant portion of roof, now on the ground behind the truck. Two things; he ignored the height warning when it bopped off his truck AND he was really traveling far too fast in the ramp, hence the debris on the floor and not all in the truck bed.I find it very difficult to have any sympathy whatsoever for this dum-dum.
We shipped some large equipment for a large project. The equipment trailer was too tall and struck a bridge, damaging both. Three months later, shipping the next piece of equipment (same size as previous), the driver and equipment struck the same bridge.
C over 2 years ago
Snow (flake) damage
Imagine over 2 years ago
It is said one needs a brain, but that doesn’t stop many people from going though their lives either.
Manitobaman over 2 years ago
Oh man. Another bridge incident. The crane boom being up doesn’t help. There was a place in Winnipeg that used to have an ad in the paper ( this was years ago now ) about every 2 to 3 weeks looking for truck drivers. What the ad didn’t say was that when the guy wasn’t driving, he was supposed to work in the yard. Which would have been fine except yard work included operating the cranes. You were just expected to jump into the thing and know how to operate it. All kinds of bad things happened which led to the guy either quitting or getting fired. Then there would be another ad in the paper.
mwksix over 2 years ago
It should have said “Don’t operate heavy machinery while playing bridge”
sperry532 over 2 years ago
Not a bridge, but… I followed a jacked-up pickup with a non-emergency light-bar on the top into my parking ramp. There was a free-hanging pvc pipe with the clearance clearly printed on it. It was bright yellow with big black letters no one could miss. The truck hit the warning ‘sign’ at the top of his windscreen. A very short time later, I passed him on just under the first low concrete beam. He was stopped off to the side a bit looking down at what remained of his light bar and a significant portion of roof, now on the ground behind the truck. Two things; he ignored the height warning when it bopped off his truck AND he was really traveling far too fast in the ramp, hence the debris on the floor and not all in the truck bed.I find it very difficult to have any sympathy whatsoever for this dum-dum.
drycurt over 2 years ago
We shipped some large equipment for a large project. The equipment trailer was too tall and struck a bridge, damaging both. Three months later, shipping the next piece of equipment (same size as previous), the driver and equipment struck the same bridge.
Impkins Premium Member over 2 years ago
I think he should be limited to Tonka Trucks. :)