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The driver might not have been the cream of the crop
By adamg on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 8:33am
Rob Colonna and other inbound commuters had a sour experience on Storrow Drive this morning due to an epic battle between a milk truck and a bridge. As ever, the bridge won - one wonders how the driver failed to realize the bridge would skim the top off his truck. No word if he received a ticket for a mooving violation.
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It's amazing how often this
It's amazing how often this sort of thing happens. I'm still trying to figure out how to work a 2% joke into this post...
Don't cry over spilled milk!
Don't cry over spilled milk!
In any other city, and in any
In any other city, and in any other roadway, I'd say the rate of truckers with a clue vs. those who plow ahead anyway is half and half. But this happens so often, I'd say the former are just 2% or less. It's nearly a dairy event and Ice cream every time it happens.
I can see you've ruminated
I can see you've ruminated over this quite a bit. I've sat here in jersey for the holstein day thinking of how this could hoof happened, and I think I've spotted the problem: the clearance sign was bull. It was more like 10'. Next time this driver goes pasture, he'll think twice about his beef with that sign.
Ok, I got it!
Obviously, this truck driver isn't exactly the cream of the crop.
And his stomach must be churning at the thought of being in deep manure with his boss.
If the truck driver gets in deep manure with his boss,
It'll serve him right.
Bread and butter
You'd think the driver would know better if driving a truck was his bread and butter.
The driver thought he could
The driver thought he could cow the bridge's low clearance into submission.
What an udderly bad idea.
You can put the world's knowledge on a phone
but they can't develop a warning system for overhead trucks that flashes and yells and texts the driver or calls him on his fucking CB or what the what!
Signed,
Stuck in the mess earlier.
More to the point
It would be very difficult to develop a system to pull a driver's head out of his/her ass.
Huge literature on ignoring warnings points to this.
They already have. It's been
They already have. It's been deployed in Australia, and seems pretty successful. But I'm of two minds about MassDOT (or DCR or whomever) using it here, since that would make things less fun.
You can see it here: http://jalopnik.com/australias-water-curtain-stop-...
Better than falling lights
Falling water would be an improvement over falling lights, falling bridge decking, and falling panels. I'd get churned up if driving ahead of the truck in my convertible when it goes off. Worse for a motorcyclist, blinding for everyone.
I've ridden a motorcycle in fairly heavy rain
It's annoying, but not fatal. Unlike the parts that might fly off a truck when it gets stuck under an underpass like that.
Maybe it was the high tech
Maybe it was the high tech gizmology ( GPS ) was what sent him that way in the first place. You don't really think the guy set out in the morning to mess up people and jeopardize his job.
Using a GPS means you can
Using a GPS means you can ignore all other signs? Also if he was using a proper commercial vehicle GPS he'd be able to plug in his vehicle height and any other restrictions (hazmat) and it would calculate a safe route. Something tells me he didn't bother with that.
Death by GPS
It's a real problem out West.
People put too much faith in technology and ignore the facts on the ground.
Don't bring your curds this
Don't bring your curds this way!
When driving a truck
Sometimes you just don't register the warnings - the signs just go pasturize.
Any chance UH readers could
Any chance UH readers could stop milking this story? Enough already!
Agreed
I'm udderly sick of all of these cheesy comments.
Aw ... c'mon
I rennet by the Culture minister before posting!
You're just trying to churn things up.
He should've known to go a
He should've known to go a different whey
Seriously though
Maybe they could install a milk curtain...
I refuse to sour this discussion further with stupid puns...
...but I have to ask....In all likelihood, this driver came from Garelik's distribution facility in Lynn. It's bad enough when out of towners and UHaul jockey's end up on the river roads, but how the hell does a a local driver with a commercial license do this?
The puns...
My god these puns...
Good work UH readers!
The bridge was clearly
The bridge was clearly lactose intolerant.