Im gonna say the truck never hit the bridge. There is no damage to the cab or the trailer, the wrecker has driven off on its own, and the police are driving away. There are no railway engineers checking the bridge. If he had hit the bridge, the trailer would be damaged at the top, and the bridge would be closed until its checked for safety.
I don't know how this got so many views?? Anyway Here is a news article which shows the lorry stuck under the bridge www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/10519183.Train_and_traffic_delays_after_lorry_hits_Orpington_bridge/ The lorry got stuck and the big tow track had to pull it out. Sorry I didn't film that,
The man at 02:10 is a post checker. He is making sure that the silver post is not about to fall on the truck, causing more grief for the driver. After doing his job he can't keep still until he finds his next post to check.
OK, the driver should've been aware of the bridge height but to have to back up and them a blind side reverse into the station forecourt with that lot looking on isn't easy.
The car park attendant was having a major power rush! Reminded me of the RMP back in my soldiering days- lots of arm waving and trying to look important, but no actual help at all! Haha!
That is not a particularly tall trailer but to give the bloke his due its not that easy always getting bridge heights right, I have had to reverse back from bridges myself with pallet loads which of course are not always the same height. But there was no apparent damage done just a lot of inconvenience
No, the UK height limit for 44 tonne (6-axle) operation is 4.2m. If below 40 tonne there is no limit - but motorway bridges are 5.5m. It all went "wrong" just after the 44 tonne/4.2m thing was introduced (when John Prescott was transport minister) when the Eddie Stobbart company bought trailers over 4.2m but had a line marked all around the inside of the side curtains and the wording "Do not load above this line if over 40 tonne GVW". It was deemed legal and everyone followed suit. Despite Dentressangle is a (very) French company they must have a UK operation because it's a rhd truck. To be fair to the driver it was a very gentle touch which didn't even damage the trailer. The height and weight limit in mainland Europe is 4.0m/40 tonne GVW.
@Lancashirelad I saw the white line inside the curtains - mid 90's - and there was initially an associated 4.2m limit. After Stobbart and probably others took the piss it was abandoned. (I was engineering director of a big trailer company then.)
I don't think it actually hit the bridge? 1) no damage to trailer 2) Trains are still running on bridge, and it is standard to stop all trains until bridge is inspected by an engineer! 3) The 2 HGV's at the end of the video are the some height and there have just driven under the bridge? 4) The trailer just dose not look over 4.5 meters as signed? My guest is that something has gone wrong with the unit and needed recovery and could not be towed under the bridge?
I used to work for this company until I left in April. Thankfully I don't recognise the registration or either of the colleagues involved, because if I did know them I would not hold back in taking the piss. Clearly the driver didn't take any notice of the big poster in the transport office that says "avoid bridge bashing"
Stopped before bridge didnt hit it so why post this he just needed to reverse and find another route but at 14ft 9in he shouldnt of had problem. Obviously people held up and not happy so get the noisy slow filthy trucks of the road but only untill it effects them which would be a day or two maybe a week. Couldnt buy food for table fuel for car etc etc Better idea give him some room let hime turn around and get the traffic moving asap
Its annoying! The cameraman should have shown the front of the truck or the front of the trailer!! All he did was showing the truck reversing. I doubt it hit the bridge, the trailer isn't 14.9 high.
@@kin9225 there is a link in the description if you click it it takes you to the news report on it with pic of the front of it . The trailer hit the bridge but caused no damage it's just leaning to 1 side
@@keltthomas8476 Oh dear, so it is!! Network rail is going to screw his insurance for it now!! Cancelling train schedules, bridge inspection etc etc , claims could run into 10s of thousands!!! One of our drivers ran into the bridge, no visible damage to bridge, but network rail charged the company I worked for something like £67k!!
@@kin9225 its lost revenue closing the line and haveing enginers called for inspection of the bridge it costs a fortune I drive a 16ft tall largos walking floor and it's easy to forget how tall the trailers are . We had a driver smack a bridge a few years ago it did some serious damage it cost the insurance company over 500k
I feel sorry for the driver having to drive a Renault premium....that’s punishing enough....worst unit I’ve ever drive never mind tramp in....he was probably trying to commit unit suicide...but the Renault probably didn’t have the power to cause and damage...
!m retired from driving wagons now ? But that bridge is deciveing running downhill past the station ?? But ! You must know your height before you get to the bridge ??.
no damage, 4.5 metre bridge, most Norbert trailers are suitable for European work, max height 4 metres over there. Think he bottled it cos he didn't see the sign! Proper numpty who gives professional drivers a bad name!
Poster is lying...there was no bridge strike...that particular bridge is prone to strikes and is fitted with a strike monitor and when it is triggered the signals on the railway either side automatically turn red and no trains can cross until a Railtrack inspector has checked the structure, the train crossing at 0:15 would not happen. My guess is he pulled up short when he realised he wasn't going to make it. Don't try to bullshit us.
can see the bridge height sign of 14' 9" and doesn't look like there's damage to the top of the trailer or wind deflector on top of cab, theory with me is the trailer is a 14' 6" with a possibility that the road under the bridge has maybe been resurfaced which has decreased the overall height clearance.....just a thought :/
Good theory mate. That trailer I think is between 15" and 15.5" ...ND don't have trailers below 15 mate to the best of me knowledge. He's definitely chanced that 1!!!
4,5meters? that should be inouf for that truck, i guess if that truck hitted the bridge, those sings must be wrong or need to be uptadet. New tarmac or something?
My guess is the sign is wrong, the reefer that goes past usually run at around 13"7 to 13"9 and there doesn't seem to be over a foot in height difference although the camera angle isn't great. However, the trailer should have an overall running height sticker on it based on a 5th wheel height as that makes a difference.
I always find it AMAZING that just about every You Tube video showing trucks slamming into bridges will ALWAYS find some people claiming the road was re-surfaced, the signs weren't accurate etc etc etc. Really now....
He made it worse by having the air suspension down on his unit, while trying to reverse out.why did they need a recovery vehicle there when the truck looked perfectly ok ?
Duelcoot 88 No not wrong, I drove a Scania R420 last week as a replacement for my newer Scania which was having its inspection. Had 1,000,000+km on the clock must have been fairly old. When I got to my drop I noticed the suspension light stayed lit the whole journey, and I had to manually reset it before picking up my next load.
+Dan Coleman-Goss No risk assement needed just the ability to know ya height, road signs and have some degree of navigation. I drive double deckers daily at 16 feet tall and I can tell u straight away that , that curtain sider ain't going under a 14,9 bridge. The driver should ahve known that but I guess he didn't check his vehicle height.
Inside the cab theccab height would be indicated,the problem is the trailer is higher than the cab ,it the height of the trailer written on the Trailer?????
So he didn't hit the bridge then, yet a recovery truck on standby, could have done with maybe, full fire service turnout, air ambulance, Dr, and surgeon on standby, in a specialist refreshment tent for all the rescue services, mountain rescue etc, maybe throw in a preacher to perform a service if needed, i know, sounds a little ott, as was the title
Actually watching it again its quite strange! You wouldn't tow it out as that would course more damage, you would lower suspension and lit the types down to free it from the bridge?
A Norbert Dessentrangel lorry from France, so who can blame the driver if he follows his Sat Nav? Very few bridges like this in France - level crossings rule!
i love the way that copper walks straight in front of that wagon just as its about to move off without a high vis and then stop a car turn in the opposite direction which in theory would not interfere with the artic manoeuvring the junction safely
i wonder why he cant drive under that bridge i see a sign whit 4,5 meter that means 4 meter 50 cm and he is not allowed to be more than 4 meter high in total
This goes to show how smart some people are when it come to trucks. the high on the bridge it 14.9 feet high or 4.5 m.. I know this from chicago IL what a sign read isn't always what the roads are.
It doesn't help when you get into an unfamiliar cab and it says 14'3. You've no way of verifying that. And most transport offices will just laugh or tell you to work it out yourself. So unless you carry a 15 ft ruler around. How do you know? P.S. they don't paint the roof of the trailer P.P.S. why was the wrecker there?
Well on the bulkhead of the trailer (every trailer Iv'e seen anyway) There's a measurement such as the trailers hight uncoupled, add that to the high of your th wheel. A + B gives you C.
Bridge collisions are the kind of incidents that put companies out of business! Railway companies charge the companies thousands an hour as they see it as loss of revenue if the bridge has to be repaired and the service using that bridge is stopped.
How ironic. A Renault crashes right next to a Renault dealer :D Only if it was a Renault Trucks. :) Wish it was a Magnum, terrible trucks, i don't like Renault at all. I feel for the driver driving that really nice Scania Highline. Also that M.A.N. TGX was really nice.
Hammerhead Beer Reviews I just hate the looks on the outside, it looks like a brick on-top of 4 or 6 wheels. Don't even get me started on the interior!
i just do not understand how these drivers do not know their height I have had to finish driving hgv's gthrough ill health so Ispeak as a person who has driven all over europe
Andrew Beaumont I know I used one that used to carry flat pack cardboard boxes, what a cow getting round some places with it, Some of the very heavy big loads I used to pull around were 19' high and 19' wide and police escorts didn't always get the routes right either, I have had some cowing terrible roads to reverse back up cos they took me the wrong way.
I agree , I'm a truck driver and most units are 4 mitres high , the trailer looks no more than 14 ft , Anyway the problem over here in the uk is stupid over height trailers, which you dont see in the rest of Europe, with that trailer you wouldn't get to far out of calais before you had a problem.
that trailer is probably 15ft plus but if the bridge was an arch then that wouldn't have done him much good in lowering the suspension his best bet would be learn to read english
can't see were the comment below got the hight of the trailer at 16'9 but as the min motorway bridge hight in the UK is 16'6 this driver must turn round a lot if it is 16'9 lol
