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L.O.L!!!

Years ago my foreman at a power line company had a 1 ton Chevy that "just" fit in his garage.

He parked it and then hurt himself skiing at Banff so the truck stayed in the garage for about 2 months.

Well the springs caught up to the load and the truck was a bit higher when he went to back out..... ripped off the beacon and damaged the ladder racks.

The look on his face would have been priceless.... It fit in here fine...

Just a fair warning to any one who may wish to do some moving of their own and rent a cube truck: there is no insurance that you can buy that will cover this type of damage. You're on the hook for every penny in damages if this should happen to you.

A neighbour fitted an angle-iron rack on his pick-up to haul ladders and such. His wife borrowed it one day to go to work at the hospital and drove into the underground parking - with predictable results. You can cure ignorance but you can't fix stupid.

If you have ever driven a highway truck, you will cringe.

Ouch.
That has to hurt, been though a few of those, myself.

Couldn't they excavate the roadbed down a foot or so?

Did something similar in a smaller way when about 17 driving my dad's tow truck. I was going to boost a car at a local apartment building with a concrete 'awning' (for lack of a better term) out front. This was in the late 70's when small tow trucks didn't have hydraulic lifts such as seen today. It was the old cable held boom with a 2-lever up/down and clutch system driven off the PTO (power take-off). The boom was set about 4 inches too high for the structure that I cruised under while looking for the customer. By the time I realized what the large thump and bang was, another pair occurred. In one side - BANG! (crap!) - out the other - BANG! (oops...) I stopped to look at the damage to the truck - nada - and saw the chunks of concrete on the ground behind me. Some dude said I had better report it to the 'super' so, since my dad's name was on the side of the truck I decided that would be the best option. Went in and rang his buzzer. No response. Boogey time!! (always wondered what happened to the guy with the dead battery...)

Reminds me of the time I took not one, but two vehicles of his (name displayed on both) up to my high school to 'alter' some gates that were traditionally locked at lunch - thus ruining my short-cut home. But that's a story for another time.....

Anyone used to driving older type vehicles will be familiar with the practice of opening the driver's door to see where you were going when backing up. My aunt was so used to doing that she lost the driver's door backing out her garage.

A few years back on highway 1 outside of Vancouver, a hyster emptying tandem garbage truck operator accidently managed to pull an overhead pedestrian crossing over the freeway down onto the cab of his truck with fatal results.
For some unknown reason he had failed to drop the hydraulic arm on his truck back into travelling position and was seen motoring down the freeway with it in the raised position which managed to snag the pedestrian walkway and knock it off its pads and onto the truck.
Luckily no pedestrians were on the overpass at the time.

The unanswered question was why the arm was in a raised position since returning the garbage bin back to its designated site would have placed the lift arm in the travelling position after the last pickup.

YO

We build it long and strong in North Carolina.

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Stripped fifth wheel camper driver:

"Honey, Shut Up."

"I know the damn thing will fit."

"SEE!"

This happens every month on the High Level Bridge in Edmonton.

@Gord, that would end the fun.

@Schwarze... that was exactly my thought. Those are expensive accidents to the driver. Wow.

I drove trucks for a living in one of my past lives.   I couldn't watch the whole vid.
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Gord @ 11:19 PM:

There is a sanitary sewer line right underneath that cannot be lowered.

Nice video, but would it kill them to hang a noise maker at 11'6" height across the road before the bridge? Something that makes a horrific racket when you hit it but doesn't rip the top off the truck.

I mean, please. Let's think a little bit, shall we?