Every rental truck I’ve ever driven has had a decal like that as well. So those rental truck drivers hitting the 11Foot8 Bridge don’t really have an excuse, other than the fact that they’re probably not accustomed to having to worry about their vehicle’s height.
I always like to brag that I drove under the 11Foot8 Bridge (in a normal sedan) before it was famous. It’s located in Durham, NC. I lived in the nearby city of Raleigh back in the early aughts, in the days before YouTube, and drove under it a couple of times on visits to Durham. I recall thinking back then that it was one of the lowest bridge clearances I’d ever seen.
I once helped a friend move to the North Shore of Long Island. We were driving a U-Haul truck. We passed under a very low bridge, and on the way back I noticed that the sign said that the clearance was less than the height of the truck!
Dumb luck.
Oh, that is in Germany too! Nice! But while the picture I posted reads “Bahn-Brücke in 500 m” (Railway bridge in 500 m) your picture has the chains perhaps 50 m before the brigde on a downward slope! And one of the chains is warped around the upper bar, it probably has been hit already recently! And I guess much faster than the 30 km/h painted on the ground as speed limit, otherwise it would not have warped! Of course, in Germany one does not drive slowly. Well, many don’t. Anyway, 2 m is awfully low.
ETA: But what is the contraption called?
More important for me to know is the clearance needed when I have my bike on the roof rack (9ft). Not paying attention to that can have unpleasant results.
Storrow drive, in Boston, is known for eating rental trucks when college students are moving in. Apparently, it has a clearance of 10 feet or 3 meters.
There is an abundance of signs giving road clearance height.[7] Despite the signs, a truck or other large vehicle will periodically get wedged under a bridge, which causes traffic to back up for several miles. In one incident a truck full of scissors became stuck and spilled its cargo, causing more than 30 cars to get flat tires.[2] There is a 10 foot (3.0 m) height limit for the entire parkway.[8] Local media has taken to referring to these kinds of accidents as a truck being “Storrowed”,[9] and the city of Boston has annual advisories in August to those renting box trucks for college move-ins to avoid the city’s low-clearance parkway system, including Storrow Drive.[10] Traditionally, locals have often blamed the “Storrowing” incidents on college students,[11] but many accidents have involved professional truck drivers using phone GPS units meant for passenger cars.[12] Many companies local to Boston train their drivers on how to avoid “Storrowing”,[13] but truck drivers from other areas may not know about the low clearances.[14]
I don’t know the height of my small SUV, but i can reach over it, and if it doesn’t fit under a bridge, that roadway isn’t meant for cars. I’ve seen those chain things hanging at the entrance to parking garages, and I’ve cautiously driven under them a few times, but never hit the chains.
Seen that happen. Very sorrowful for the owner/s of the bike. My wife was an IronMan. I her sherpa. we just kept the bike in the SUV. And it rested with us in the hotel room (there was usually things to do with it any way).These bikes can be VERY expensive.
Other vehicle - I do know (in addition to lots of other specs).
Pickup truck by itself - 6 ft. 8 in. (and 7880 lbs.)
Pickup truck with fifth-wheel camper - 12 ft. 11 in. (18,440 to 19,700 lbs. depending on load)
I also know widths with mirrors extended, each axle’s weight, pinbox weight, center of gravity (roughly), and ballpark figures to add when the water tanks are full/half/etc. I also need to know lengths of truck (22’), trailer (32’), and both combined (50’) for certain parks/reservations.
I’ve been working out in a parking garage. According to my Garmin, last night’s average floor height was 4’ &; when I went back & looked at my last workout there, it was only 3’. Clearly, that calculation is wrong as there are real, full-sized cars & SUV’s in the garage & I can walk w/o needing to bend over/limbo; it’s not just made for Hot Wheels, Matchbox & other scale model ones.
The (faulty) calculation is vertical feet & based upon barometric altimeter. It’s not a smart garage showing spaces left/spaces per floor, & even if it was the watch has no connection to it. Just like your phone & other devices, I can do a one-time setup to have it pair to something but it won’t connect to any random bluetooth or wifi it finds w/o you giving it permission the first time.
Not sure I follow that but it does read to me that it doesn’t distinguish between empty spaces and spaces with cars in them. In which case if there are a lot of empty spaces then sure, it’s going to read lower than the average height of just spaces with cars.
No, you’re misunderstanding. The floor height & therefore building height is the same whether it’s packed or empty. The number of free spaces changes throughout the day, & the volume of free space would change throughout the day (why anyone other than a math teacher & their students would care about that, I don’t know) but the building height doesn’t change…& if it does, GTFO as it’s about to collapse!!!
If I went up 10 flights & the watch calculated 40’ of elevation gain that would mean it was averaging floor height to be 4’/floor. Clearly that’s wrong as I am much taller than 4’ & I can walk in there w/o any issue.
Oh, OK. In other words, both the 4’ reading and the 3’ reading are wrong; but they’re different from each other.
Sounds like the device just doesn’t work for that purpose. I’m not sure what that has to do with the height of vehicles, though – did somebody in the thread measure the height of their vehicle by using the elevations given on their watch, and I missed it?
Garages are different heights & not all garages have height signs; I was in one last night with fancy-schmancy electronics that was so far off it didn’t even pass the plausibility test.
