For $300, Amazon could have ordered a GPS from Amazon that would have kept another Amazon truck driver from smashing into that bridge in Dedham

By adamg on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 9:53am

KMV surveyed the damage at the East Street Bridge in Dedham, where yet another Amazon driver had the top of his trailer peeled back like a can of sardines overnight (earlier).

This Garmin GPS for truckers offers a variety of features, including "alerts for upcoming Bridge heights."

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Dedham

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Driving

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Comments

Different bridge this time?

By Ron Newman on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 10:19am.

The tweet you linked to says this happened on Elm Street.

Hmm ...

By adamg on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 11:49am.

This one says East Street, which, looking at the map seems right since Elm doesn't cross under the tracks, but I'll check.

Dedham has an Elm St., but

By Dave on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 10:37pm.

Dedham has an Elm St., but there's nothing resembling a bridge over it.

But, ya know,

By jmeltzer on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 12:25pm.

Bezos didn't make 120 billion dollars by equipping his drivers with unnecessary things like special truck GPSes.

Garmin link doesn't work

By mg on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 2:28pm.

Adam - the link for the Garmin goes instead to the tweet about the incident.

Try now

By adamg on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 2:50pm.

Sorry about that!

It works

By mg on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 3:26pm.

Thanks