Dalmatian90
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Photo pretty much says everything the article does: Truck pulls down live wires, traps driver - Lowell Sun Online
I think he'll lose money on that load.
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Photo pretty much says everything the article does: Truck pulls down live wires, traps driver - Lowell Sun Online
luneburg
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Ouch !
Ouch man if he does not own the company he may be out of a job ya think ? *Makes mental note* watch Tewksbury Craigslist for chainsaws
Ouch man if he does not own the company he may be out of a job ya think ? *Makes mental note* watch Tewksbury Craigslist for chainsaws
mingo
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May not be his fault wires have to be at least 14' over a public way.
Chainsaw_Maniac
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Agreed. It is not unreasonable to drive a truck loaded that high.
Humptulips
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That brings back memories
When I was 5 we lived behind the Flying A Truck Service (anyone remember the old Flying A service stations). Anyway a truck came in with a flat and overshot the driveway. There was a road went clear around the place where my dad had our trailer parked. The driver thought he could just go around and pull in to the front of the service area. Powerlines weren't high enough but he made the circle and didn't even realize he'd caught them. Broke the pole off and pulled into the service area with all the lines and the pole in tow.
It must have been late in the day because I remember my Dad was home and I walked with him around front. Driver didn't realize till my Dad pointed it out as he got out of the truck.
A few years ago but I remember it well. Just as a hint how long ago, the guy from the PUD dug the hole for the new pole by hand. Big excitement for a 5 year old.
When I was 5 we lived behind the Flying A Truck Service (anyone remember the old Flying A service stations). Anyway a truck came in with a flat and overshot the driveway. There was a road went clear around the place where my dad had our trailer parked. The driver thought he could just go around and pull in to the front of the service area. Powerlines weren't high enough but he made the circle and didn't even realize he'd caught them. Broke the pole off and pulled into the service area with all the lines and the pole in tow.
It must have been late in the day because I remember my Dad was home and I walked with him around front. Driver didn't realize till my Dad pointed it out as he got out of the truck.
A few years ago but I remember it well. Just as a hint how long ago, the guy from the PUD dug the hole for the new pole by hand. Big excitement for a 5 year old.
imagineero
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Some years ago I had a job working for a company in New Zealand that specialised in dairy feeding systems. They had a custom truck to deliver the grain silos, and silos up to about 50T capacity were delivered assembled to site. Silos bigger than that were assembled on site. The truck was overheight and overwidth and needed a pilot. It got through bigger cities just fine, but out in rural areas where all the deliveries were made a lot of the wiring was lower.
If you tell the power company before hand that you're making an overheight delivery, they leaflet the area, send crews out, disconnect the wiring, rig up a generator for a day or two so nobody loses power, then reverse the whole process. The cost is up into the 10's of thousands by the time you mobilise the staff and plant to those remote areas and accommodate them. That entire cost would be passed onto the client obviously.
What the company did was give the client the option of going that way, or telling their neighbours (very small populations out in those farming areas) that they'd be without power for a day or two, and baking them a cake/buying some beer. The truck would then come in and just drive right through and snap the lines. The power company only charged a minimal service restoration fee for damage like that. Lot of cakes got baked, and nobody ever got hurt in the 10 years before I'd worked there, or as far as I know after either.
Shaun
If you tell the power company before hand that you're making an overheight delivery, they leaflet the area, send crews out, disconnect the wiring, rig up a generator for a day or two so nobody loses power, then reverse the whole process. The cost is up into the 10's of thousands by the time you mobilise the staff and plant to those remote areas and accommodate them. That entire cost would be passed onto the client obviously.
What the company did was give the client the option of going that way, or telling their neighbours (very small populations out in those farming areas) that they'd be without power for a day or two, and baking them a cake/buying some beer. The truck would then come in and just drive right through and snap the lines. The power company only charged a minimal service restoration fee for damage like that. Lot of cakes got baked, and nobody ever got hurt in the 10 years before I'd worked there, or as far as I know after either.
Shaun
Joe46
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Back in the late 70's early 80's a trucker out of Port Angeles hit some lines out by Forks. He lived, the truck didn't
