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We need the bridge sign in Delaware, Ohio! We have truckers CONSTANTLY hitting a rail bridge! We had one that tore it's top all the way off. It was important that he deliver emergency equipment to the hospital. As they were unloading.... the driver was being "interviewed" by a trooper and police officer! The state route is CLEARLY MARKED sufficiently, on both sides!They need more of these, IMO:
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Maybe these too:
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Had one recently take a chunk of the top off one of my favorite truss bridges in the next county over: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/05/10/truck-crashes-bridge/We need the bridge sign in Delaware, Ohio! We have truckers CONSTANTLY hitting a rail bridge! We had one that tore it's top all the way off. It was important that he deliver emergency equipment to the hospital. As they were unloading.... the driver was being "interviewed" by a trooper and police officer! The state route is CLEARLY MARKED sufficiently, on both sides!
Trick is, that's a lot of specialized information to pass back and forth on an interface that has to be standardized across dump beds, regular box trailers, roll off dumpsters, tankers, and anything else that can be pulled by a typical truck. Easier, IMO, is a system that's either entirely contained in the trailer or has a single on/off "danger" signal line and a deadman-style override to allow the truck to move while the danger signal is active. If the driver has to hold a button to go at all, he's going to have a heck of a time shifting gears to get down the road. Then it's just a simple matter of having the trailer set up to activate the danger line whenever it's in a "don't go" condition. (Having seen a few incidents with truckers forgetting to stop and close the doors after leaving a dock where swing doors couldn't be shut while fully at the dock, I wouldn't be surprised if a few companies would support such a system with a door-open danger trigger on regular box trailers. Also seen more than one take off without raising the trailer's landing gear, or closing valves on a tanker.)Another way would be to only allow the bed to rise when the tractor is in neutral. Once the driver engages the hydraulics to raise the bed, it locks the transmission allowing the driver to shift into first gear only and turns on a "Transmission Locked" light on the dashboard.
WITHOUT question!This is a sign I think should be on all trails!
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That doesn’t happen around here.This is a sign I think should be on all trails!
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