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You know that forklift operator grinned as he drove away!
Would have been fine if he had backed it on, or fully dumped the bucket to get another 6-10" further forward.View attachment 762435The tractor was aa bit too large for the trailer. Which resulted in the tongue weight being too low and the trailer whipping.
But, Hey, He did a damn fine job of binding it down.
I have a 35' bumper pull toy hauler... sucks to pull. 12k toy hauler with a WDH & sway control sucks. 12k of tractor on my 22' bumper pull deckover is perfectly fine even hitting 75 on tbe freeway with no WDH or sway control.When I see that here in Michigan (a pretty flat place) it's usually a toy hauler type camper. Dad/family loads up the ATVs, dirt bikes and/or SxS into the very rear of the trailer, and you get zero or negative tongue weight on the 1500 pickup - recipe for disaster. You're lucky if the camper ends up only flipping onto its side, because when it goes all the way over, the truck does too and you're in real danger of injury or DEATH.
After spending millions of dollars in signs and flashing lights, DelDOT is using “clanker balls” as their newest solution to prevent large vehicles from getting stuck under a railroad bridge on Casho Mill Road . NBC10’s Tim Furlong has more on what this solution aims to accomplish.View attachment 758130
Clanker balls
From what I’ve seen, by the time they get to the signs, and now the canker balls, are all to close to the bridge, and they have no exit route.After spending millions of dollars in signs and flashing lights, DelDOT is using “clanker balls” as their newest solution to prevent large vehicles from getting stuck under a railroad bridge on Casho Mill Road . NBC10’s Tim Furlong has more on what this solution aims to accomplish.
'Clanker Balls': DelDOT's Creative Clearance Solution for Headache Bridge
Over the last decade, more than 70 vehicles have fallen victim to the low railroad bridge underpass in Newark on Casho Mill Road.
Now, the Delaware Department of Transportation may have found a new solution to stop these oversized vehicles before they risk getting stuck: a series of heavy-duty plastic "clanker" balls that hang at the clearance height down the street before the bridge.
The transportation department says it has spent just about $1 million in various attempts to alert drivers of the low clearance.
"Over the years we've added signage. We've added sensors. We've added flashing lights, striping, lighting, really trying to use all of the tools in our toolbox to try and get people to be aware of their oversize vehicle when approaching this more than century-old bridge," DelDOT's C.R. McLeod told NBC10.
The one-way road -- nicknamed by locals "Smasho Mill Road" -- has an 8-foot, 7-inch clearance that is marked by many signs. The signage has not been enough to stop drivers in oversized trucks from continuing down the road.
The new "clanker" balls will not damage any cars, officials said, instead alerting drivers that the bridge is too low for their vehicle to safely pass under and prompting them to turn around.
This begs this question, has DelDOT finally found its solution? Time will tell.
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BEFORE the CLANKER BALLS
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When I was 19, I took my Dad’s truck, (“Heavy F250”, The stock F250 with the springs and shocks from an F350 under it. Dealers in Utah used to special order them, so the farmers could buy them, and get the license as a 3/4 ton, to save on taxes, and load them as a one ton.), to the gravel pit to get sand to make mortar for a new block wall with.You know that forklift operator grinned as he drove away!
Noticed this at many of these as well. The signs, sensors, 'clanker balls', 'height bars', etc should all be at and before the last intersection as well.From what I’ve seen, by the time they get to the signs, and now the canker balls, are all to close to the bridge, and they have no exit route.