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Originally Posted by James Howard
Maybe that incident near Dover a couple of weeks ago might focus some minds. I believe this was the arm of a digger hitting a bridge
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I think that was a case of too many things out of normal operation resulting in the inevitable incident. The bridge had a distinct slope, there was construction work on the bridge, one of the trucks was driving on the hard shoulder and one of the trucks drove over an object on the road surface.
Unfortunately, truck driving is a relatively low skill job with poor pay. One of the greatest problems in the industry is there is poor supervision. Better supervision, including better route planning would be facilitated by a comprehensive database of low max height overbridges and low max weight underbridges.