Stuck Truck, River North, Chicago
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Stuck Truck
May 24th, 2005 · 5 Comments
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5 responses so far ↓
1 avoision // May 24, 2005 at 11:34 pm
This makes me think of an old Encyclopedia Brown story, where something similar happened (to the schoolbus he was on, I think).
His solution? Let some of the air out of the tires, and the truck should be able to sneak its way through.
2 joel // May 25, 2005 at 8:49 am
this photo could/should be titled.
“Sept. 1. Pick a year. Memorial and Storrow drive.”
In the almost 6 years I’ve lived in boston I’ve seen two moving trucks with their cab peeled back like sardine cans. This almost happened to my mother also - I just thank God I wasn’t in the truck when it happened.
3 Jenn in NJ // May 25, 2005 at 10:11 am
Before reading the comments I was thinking about Boston too, right on Joel - my memories were the Memorial Drive underpass of Mass Ave. Ah, yes, despite the inherent MIT geekiness, they still managed to wedge a truck from time to time.
4 Rob D // May 25, 2005 at 6:01 pm
Back when I would live out in Humbolt Park, I would bike into work via Armitage/Cortland. About a couple of times a month I would find Armitage backed up for blocks - that’s how I knew a truck had somehow managed to lodge itself under I-90/94. I would wonder about what effect would be generated this time as I passed by many many steaming drivers. Sardine can? The squeeze? Wracking? The bonus was that since most often they were swinging wide to get off the expressway they would block BOTH lanes of traffic. I would sail by on my bike with a giddy smile on my face.
Turns out they kept laying asphalt down, new on top of old, without removing the bad stuff, which adds up. It used to give a clearance of 14′-2″, and now the sign reads a clearance of something like 13′-6″.
5 Rance // May 27, 2005 at 2:39 pm
When I was in Lansing, Michigan, the local truck rental office had a picture of one of their trucks.
It had its top peeled back when the renter tried to take it under one of the local railroad bridges. The highway department had already put equipment there to sense the height of approaching trucks. IT set off klaxons and strobe lights if they were too tall to make it, but I guess that wasn’t enough for some people.
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