Truck sucks at limbo

trouphaz · 2012-09-28T13:52:36+00:00

Just in case you're interested in more of these videos. This guy had a camera setup pointing at this bridge and would record all of the trucks smashing into it. He also has a youtube channel.

Spaghetti-Bender · 2012-09-28T15:51:32+00:00

I worked for Penske in the rental department for almost 6 years. You'd be surprised how many trucks come back "roofed".

anotherlandguy · 2012-09-28T14:15:57+00:00

If he was going faster he would have made it...

maborg · 2012-09-28T12:43:35+00:00

Driver call his Boss: "just some scratches"

hardlyharharring · 2012-09-28T13:29:40+00:00

I've actually done that before with a Penske truck....mislabled overpass owned my ass.

Eating_Some_Cheerios · 2012-09-28T13:53:43+00:00

This bridge actually takes out alot of trucks and lorries

skarface6 · 2012-09-28T16:17:58+00:00

And yet another reason to be wary around rental trucks on the road.

TheEthan550 · 2012-09-28T17:21:38+00:00

"If you hit this sign, you're gonna have a bad time"

WorkSkally · 2012-09-28T17:36:03+00:00

I want the view from the other side of the bridge. I wonder how far the drivers fly when they aren't wearing a seat belt. Maybe he could spray paint a truck driver lawn dart bored.... I'm going to hell.

LockjawTheOgre · 2012-09-28T17:44:11+00:00

This particular bridge is in an odd location. It's right next to an intersection on either side, and though it does have clear signage, it's easy to miss in the clutter. What's more, to fix it would require a major reworking of a railway in the middle of downtown Durham. The railbed would need to be raised, which would take half-a-mile of work on either side.

I hate that intersection for many reasons, but this ain't one.

sammysalmon · 2012-09-28T17:58:57+00:00

Happens everyday at my university

Irocz4me · 2012-09-28T18:00:50+00:00

sounds like SOMEBODY isn't getting their deposit back.

monicacpht3641 · 2012-09-28T18:18:02+00:00

I did something similar to this quite a few years ago, although not as bad. My husband and I were moving and had rented a U-Haul truck. During the drive, we decided to stop at one of those old fashioned drive-in burger places. In my extreme state of exhaustion, I forgot I was driving a moving truck. I pulled in under the awning and wound up damaging one of the pieces of corrugated roofing that the awning was made of. It only scratched the truck, though.

Of course I did get the U-Haul insurance, so it was covered. Store owner was pretty upset, though. I apologized profusely, gave the store owner the insurance info, and left. I followed up with U-Haul when I returned the truck. They assured me that it would be taken care of.

A few months later I received a phone call from the restaurant owner demanding I pay him $2000 for the awning. I told him the insurance I purchased through U-Haul should have taken care of it and that I would follow up with them to make sure they did. I called U-Haul and they told me that they closed the claim due to the fact that they were never able to get in touch with the owner.

I let the owner know all of this, but he continued to harass me for the next year or so. All over a $15 piece of corrugated roofing.

sullipilot · 2012-09-28T19:39:18+00:00

My father used to own a sizable moving company. He had one guy that drove the same truck into the same exact bridge 3 times. He fired him the second time. But several months later he was short guys and he was still jobless so he hired him for the week and told him he would get his job back full time if it worked out. Friday afternoon the guy was all excited to get his job back and wanted to rush back to the warehouse. Took the short route, and came back with a shorter truck again....

zipsgirl4life · 2012-09-28T19:57:45+00:00

When I was in elementary school, a girl in my class, her brother and her parents were killed this way. The dad was drunk and didn't pay attention to the low-clearance sign.

Captain_Jackson · 2012-09-28T20:55:50+00:00

To be fair, there seems to be one of those signs that are like "if you hit this you'll hit the bridge" type things and it didn't touch it at all.

then again the truck was going far too fast to even check in the first place

esDragon · 2012-09-28T21:17:37+00:00

Something like this happened outside my apartment building in Chicago three years ago. The sound was incredible as the metal top of the truck peeled back like the lid on a can. They had to send out a couple of dudes with blowtorches to segment it up and cart it off on another truck.

Joshfucious · 2012-09-28T22:41:51+00:00

Was this in Augusta, GA?

disimcity · 2012-09-28T23:41:08+00:00

This kills the truck.

Airwarf · 2012-09-28T23:50:40+00:00

Correct me if i'm wrong here but aren't those signs hanging above supposed to be at the height of the bridge so you strike a sign on a cable instead of a bridge. Lets try adjusting that troll sign shall we.

edit: I would be more nervous as the train operator knowing how many trucks have crashed into the bridge.

alcyholic · 2012-09-28T23:54:00+00:00

This bridge is on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I pass through there all the time

syringa · 2012-09-29T01:10:08+00:00

"Hey, didya get yer truck stuck?" "Nope, just delivering this overpass and ran out of gas... ...Here's your sign."

cromwest · 2012-09-29T01:23:34+00:00

We got this...

Princeps12 · 2012-09-29T01:35:28+00:00

Yay for Durham!

mcjoken · 2012-09-29T02:27:40+00:00

I guess he wasn't Penske material.

keirsch · 2012-09-29T02:30:09+00:00

I live in this town. Durham North Carolina represent....

CaptainDouchington · 2012-09-29T04:11:12+00:00

Must have been using the new Apple Maps.

NextDayAir · 2012-09-29T04:22:14+00:00

I can only imagine the sound that made and the subsequent soiling of the drivers pants. I know that when I was driving delivery trucks and you scraped or bumped a low hanging branch in the country it was loud as all fuck. tearing the roof off must have been a seriously pants-shitting sound

OnceIHadACookie · 2012-09-28T15:50:26+00:00

I liked this title better:

title	comnts	points	age	/r/
Move yourself and save money, they said	3^coms	47^pts	2^mos	gifs

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