From the "How do they even do that?" department comes this picture, by Fields Corner Main Street, of a truck whose driver tried but failed to make a U-turn at a major intersection shortly after 1 p.m.
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Wow
By cybah
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 1:44pm
*face palm*
Now we know
By anon
Fri, 09/19/2014 - 9:26am
where Hugie Rowland drives in the off season.
T bridge over both Adams
By kvn
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 1:53pm
T bridge over both Adams street and Dorchester ave.....
You'd know better than most of us
By Waquiot
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 2:19pm
I mean, why would the driver of a truck that big even try to hang a u-ey on a street like Dot Ave.
Check out Street View
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 2:55pm
If the driver went down Dot Ave, he'd end up at the T bridge.
Ditto for heading down Adams.
His only reasonable choice would be trying a very tight right a block down Dot Ave, before the bridge, squeezing down Charles, and out onto Geneva to try again. (Or, down Adams to a more generous left on Leonard and out to Freeport.
Or he could have backed up
By Waquiot
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 3:16pm
Granted, that would have not been an easy move, and would have involved a second (or third or fourth) person, but that street is too tight for that turn, and I have no clue about driving such a vehicle.
Back up to where, though?
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 3:30pm
Seems like tricky choices all the way in - all small roads past Freeport St.
Adams Street
By Waquiot
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 4:14pm
Swing to the right, then when you are far enough back, take a left onto Dorchester Avenue. Stop at the auto parts store and ask them what to do.
Or conversely, right on Charles, right on Geneva, go to Bowdoin, then right again to Hancock, right again, which will get you to Freeport Ave. Admittedly, I could only do that using google maps, but backing up to Adams Street, if you had the manpower, would be easier than blocking Dot Ave.
EDIT- I'm assuming the truck was going southbound.
Our truck driving screw-ups
By anon
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 2:03pm
Our truck driving screw-ups are WORLD CLASS!
Same guy who tried to turn
By Finn
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 2:05pm
Same guy who tried to turn left onto Washington from School St downtown a few weeks ago?
How does removing it even work?
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 2:37pm
Do you have to remove the trailer from the cab and then have the cab circle the block and reattach the trailer from another angle to pull the trailer back into position?
I'm sure Ms. Know-it-all has
By tenfortyseven
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 3:17pm
I'm sure Ms. Know-it-all has the answer.
Ha ha ha
By Scratchie
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 3:25pm
People who know things are losers, amirite?
Oh you poor man
By anon
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 4:14pm
It must be tough to have so little self worth that other people knowing things and sharing them makes your fee fees hurt so hard!
Oh, and a woman is smarter than you? Oh ouch, feefees hurted! How unfair of her!
Leave the burned out carcass
By the answer
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 4:08pm
Leave the burned out carcass of the truck and trailer in the bike lane as a warning to others
You can spin a trailer 360*
By kvn
Fri, 09/19/2014 - 2:33pm
You can spin a trailer 360* around it's rear axles no problemos , as long as your circle is unobstructed. You don't have to unhook the horse.
More Training
By BlackKat
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 3:16pm
Someone put this guy in an armchair to keep the rest of us safe:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/302060/
Start with this
By anon
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 4:41pm
http://sites.garmin.com/dezl/
Nope
By Ron
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 5:18pm
As a truck driver with some experience in the city of Boston, let me assure you that GPS devices do not work well here. The number of one way, low clearance, truck restricted, etc., etc., etc., streets just don't fit into any available database. Let alone low hanging trees, wires and the like.
Adams
By Lmo
Thu, 09/18/2014 - 7:05pm
Straight down Adams was their best bet. Charles is too narrow and full of cars. Never would have been able to fit down Leonard. Once you get past the school the street gets very narrow, with parking on both sides.
Is there such a thing as GPS for big trucks? (Just saw anon Garmin link!) Gold mine! Although Storrow Drive would get pretty boring.
UTurn?
By Muhlinda
Fri, 09/19/2014 - 8:12am
A U turn? Really? Idiot
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