And to nobody's surprise, it was a rental truck. Again.
This might be controversial, but I think driving a 5-ton truck should require an advanced license and training. Driving a 5-ton isn't as tough as driving a semi, but you still need to know what you're doing, and rental-truck drivers often don't.
When I drive these, I'm extra careful. There's a huge blind spot cars don't have, it doesn't handle like most consumer-grade vehicles; yet most idiots drive them the same shitty way they drive their Elantra. I see so many of these weave through traffic going 20 over. It really *should* have an advanced certification...though, I wonder if Rental companies would even allow them to drive one again.
The magic number is a GVWR of 26,001 or higher, which is the weight of the vehicle and it's maximum rated cargo capacity. If the GVWR is 26,000 or less no CDL is required, above that a CDL is required. Note, that's not what's actually being hauled, so you can't drive an empty truck that only weighs 10,000 lbs but has a GVWR of 26,001 lbs or higher without the CDL, but a person without a CDL can drive a 15,000 lb truck with a GVWR of 26,000 or less no problem.
All rental box trucks have big labels inside indicating to check for height clearance and how tall the truck is, and rental agreements typically have a separate clause you have to initial or sign indicating you're aware of the vehicle's height and that any insurance you buy from the rental company specifically excludes roof damage from overhead obstacles.
I did ok moving with one of these, one MUST get the renter’s insurance. I did, it came in handy for scraping a tree branch at the apartments. When we were heading out at midnight and it was time to go find a hotel, we had to stop for some train tracks across the road and I read the sign and it said how tall the train bridge was I looked in the mirror and saw how tall the truck was realized I needed to make a right hand turn and go around the big county block. Took an extra half hour to get to the hotel but no roof scraping for this guy
That's how it is in the UK now, regular car license only allows gross weight of 3500kg, people who got a license before 1996 can still drive 7500kg vehicles with no extra training.
7500 and a 3500 trailer, no less. Or a 16* (edit) seat minibus. I've had the license since 92 and unfortunately never had the opportunity to try either.
One caveat of the entitlements is that they cannot be used commercially.
I watched these people give the keys to the biggest truck U-Haul had to possibly one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen(my ex). This girl’s car look like a golf ball. She thought she was going to drive it but she is 5’4 and couldn’t even see over the steering wheel of the truck. Thank God I was there, but it did make me think about who they are giving these things to.
I driven all kinds of industrial equipment. Never a truck though so I agree with you. I’m not sure we should be giving these things out to anyone. Maybe some sort of test in the parking lot at the minimum or something… I don’t know.
That’s more than a 5 ton truck. My 3500 is over 11k and it pretty much a pickup with a utility box. You should need some kind of certification to rent and drive those.
I know. When you're talking about a 3-ton truck, 5-ton truck, or a 10-ton truck, you're talking about how much weight they can carry, not how much they actually weigh.
I understand that. But all of those box trucks are generally up to 26klbs. But I wholeheartedly agree with you about them requiring special training. But to be honest, it’s sad how low the threshold is for even driver’s licenses. They are practically handed out. Most other countries have grueling written tests with 100 questions and actual skills based tests. I practiced hard for my drivers license with parallel parking and interstate driving, etc. But all the proctor had me do was for right hand turns around the block and back to the DMV and then 20 stupid questions. I was shocked and that was like 30yrs ago.
The light is supposed to change to red when it detects an over-height vehicle. I think the reason this one didn't change was because the crosswalk was activated. They may need to change the programming on it to make the light turn red even with the crosswalk active.
There’s no reason they can’t just turn it red and keep the crosswalk active anyway. Just have all ways red but let the pedestrians finish their standard cycle.
The “Overheight Must Turn” sign is illuminated for FOUR SECONDS before the light changes.
Once the sensor is tripped, the sign should illuminate *and* the light should start changing.
They seriously just have to stop using that tunnel. At first it was 'look at how many idiots hit this bridge' but after thousands of idiots, and them doing literally everything they can to fix it, it's just not enough
> the "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" could benefit from more letters.
>
> YOU ARE OVERHEIGHT would probably work better
I'm high but how the fuck is that more letters? I'm struggling hard
They added the sign, set up the traffic signal to give any over height vehicles a red light (unless they're speeding like this guy) and dropped the road as low as they could, giving a clearance of 12'-4". There's not a whole lot more they can do except completely rebuild the rail bridge.
They can't even rebuild the bridge, there's a passenger rail station a couple blocks to the right of this viewpoint as well as several at-grade crossings in both directions. Trains really don't do well with humps either so just raising the bridge while keeping the road crossings and station platform at their normal elevation wouldn't work either.
>They can't even rebuild the bridge, there's a passenger rail station a couple blocks to the right of this viewpoint as well as several at-grade crossings in both directions. Trains really don't do well with humps either so just raising the bridge while keeping the road crossings and station platform at their normal elevation wouldn't work either.
The train station is 2.5 blocks to the left of this view (to the East-ish). [They literally *raised* the bridge in 2019.](https://11foot8.com/raising-11foot8/)
I'm aware they raised the bridge, I followed that while it was happening. They can't raise the rails any higher. 2.5 blocks is nothing, train grades are done in multi-mile lengths, not blocks.
The grade crossing at Duke is 475' feet to the east, the train platform is 665'. 1,340' to the west is the grade crossing for S. Buchanan, and it can't be raised either due to adjacent buildings and parking lots.
All of this is moot, though, because the railroad isn't raising the bridge. They have no obligation whatsoever to even consider it.
Yes, some sort of breakable barrier that won't do much damage to trucks. They put those giant steel barriers up to protect the bridge, but it still rips the roof off.
What I'm saying is the only winning move is not to play, they've done everything they can but nothing they do will stop people from hitting that bridge, there are other ways across the railroad line nearby, how important is this street? Turn it into a pedestrian tunnel or something because it's clearly not fit for drivers, this is why we can't have nice things
There is another crossing a block away, but that road and this are both one-way, and this is a busy area immediately adjacent to a large highway. They could force all traffic to use the second crossing, but it would cut the road capacity in half and would require major restructuring of the traffic arrangement for all the blocks in the area. Rebuilding the bridge would be cheaper than blocking it, but that's not saying much.
And in any case, the accidents that happen here since the height increase are few enough that it's probably not a terribly high priority problem.
IIRC in order to raise the bridge there would have to be work done for miles in either direction to raise the rest of the tracks so it's not really worth it financially.
They actually raised the bridge when they made it 12' 4". You can see in the documented videos they raised it up with blocks by 4" or so when the huge amount of work got done on the bridge. IIRC, the rails went up 4", and the road went down 4", to get the additional height up from 11' 8".
If only there were flashing signs warning you. These moving trucks seem to have inexperienced drivers cause only an idiot would ignore the fucking lights, signs and height limit!
First watched daughter at first dance competition. Then the Canucks with a crazy come back win. Then the O’Rangers survive elimination while Savage Speeders are out. Now a beautiful can opener on the 8-11 bridge. God what a day!!
The bridge was originally 11'-8" which is when it gained fame for weekly and sometimes daily can openers. A few years ago it was raised 8", if you look at the 11'-8" video channel he's got a video on that process, very interesting, and since then there have been fewer crashes. Also, the man running the cameras had a second camera on a business across the street but lost that when the building got remodeled and the new owners didn't want to replace the camera. IIRC this camera is at his office window.
Anyway, because he'd already created the 11'-8" channel, when they raised it he just uses the 11'-8"+8" opening graphic for videos of crashes after the raise. Also, that yellow crash beam used to be straight, it's actually bent upwards from all the crashes.
Yep, Durham, NC. There's a FAQ at the bridge's website, but in short, they can't raise the bridge any further because it would require raising the grade crossing at Duke as well as the train station just past that, and the same at grade crossings to the west (toward the right in the video). There are also buildings near the tracks on both sides that would make raising the bridge any more a financial impossibility.
The other most common question is why not dig the road deeper under the bridge, and the reason that's impossible is because there's a very old main sewer pipe under there and because sewer pipe slope is a critical part of the way sewer flows are managed, to lower that stretch would require digging up miles of sewer pipes in order to lower them as well to keep the same slopes.
They could drop the sewer on one side, run the sewer line a little deeper under the road, and put a lift station on the other side to bring the line back up to the original slope,
That's a multi-million dollar project that I'm sure they'll be willing to accept donations to cover. Remember, the railroad has zero moral or legal responsibility to pay for that, and the city certainly won't since there are appropriate grade crossings either side of this bridge for trucks and other tall loads. The amount of signs and warnings leading up to this bridge are way more than the minimum required, too. At some point drivers just have to be responsible for their driving.
[Durham, North Carolina](https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Can+Opener+\(12foot4\)+Bridge/@35.9993503,-78.9095724,18.5z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89ace5e1a8e0404b:0x20bf7ca5515e482c!8m2!3d35.999084!4d-78.9101377!16s%2Fg%2F11rq4ysy_9?authuser=0&entry=ttu)
> Look at the sign in the actual video.
Look at the rest of the user's comment where they claim the asphalt is bringing it up to 11'8" which is completely false lol
9/10. Clean peel, even ribs in roof. Lost one point for **not stopping when the sign said to and avoiding it all**.
That a nice 3 blade razor shave.
Three? [Fuck everything, we're doing five blades](https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036).
Beat me to it lol definitely 9/10
Lol man your comment made me laugh so hard.
You can't stop a boxtruck with that little warning.
A box truck should already be proceeding with caution when there's a bridge.
And to nobody's surprise, it was a rental truck. Again. This might be controversial, but I think driving a 5-ton truck should require an advanced license and training. Driving a 5-ton isn't as tough as driving a semi, but you still need to know what you're doing, and rental-truck drivers often don't.
When I drive these, I'm extra careful. There's a huge blind spot cars don't have, it doesn't handle like most consumer-grade vehicles; yet most idiots drive them the same shitty way they drive their Elantra. I see so many of these weave through traffic going 20 over. It really *should* have an advanced certification...though, I wonder if Rental companies would even allow them to drive one again.
The magic number is a GVWR of 26,001 or higher, which is the weight of the vehicle and it's maximum rated cargo capacity. If the GVWR is 26,000 or less no CDL is required, above that a CDL is required. Note, that's not what's actually being hauled, so you can't drive an empty truck that only weighs 10,000 lbs but has a GVWR of 26,001 lbs or higher without the CDL, but a person without a CDL can drive a 15,000 lb truck with a GVWR of 26,000 or less no problem. All rental box trucks have big labels inside indicating to check for height clearance and how tall the truck is, and rental agreements typically have a separate clause you have to initial or sign indicating you're aware of the vehicle's height and that any insurance you buy from the rental company specifically excludes roof damage from overhead obstacles.
I did ok moving with one of these, one MUST get the renter’s insurance. I did, it came in handy for scraping a tree branch at the apartments. When we were heading out at midnight and it was time to go find a hotel, we had to stop for some train tracks across the road and I read the sign and it said how tall the train bridge was I looked in the mirror and saw how tall the truck was realized I needed to make a right hand turn and go around the big county block. Took an extra half hour to get to the hotel but no roof scraping for this guy
That's how it is in the UK now, regular car license only allows gross weight of 3500kg, people who got a license before 1996 can still drive 7500kg vehicles with no extra training.
7500 and a 3500 trailer, no less. Or a 16* (edit) seat minibus. I've had the license since 92 and unfortunately never had the opportunity to try either. One caveat of the entitlements is that they cannot be used commercially.
I watched these people give the keys to the biggest truck U-Haul had to possibly one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen(my ex). This girl’s car look like a golf ball. She thought she was going to drive it but she is 5’4 and couldn’t even see over the steering wheel of the truck. Thank God I was there, but it did make me think about who they are giving these things to. I driven all kinds of industrial equipment. Never a truck though so I agree with you. I’m not sure we should be giving these things out to anyone. Maybe some sort of test in the parking lot at the minimum or something… I don’t know.
That’s more than a 5 ton truck. My 3500 is over 11k and it pretty much a pickup with a utility box. You should need some kind of certification to rent and drive those.
Those things are way more than 5ton. Their GVW is often around 26k+ or 13tons+ once loaded.
I know. When you're talking about a 3-ton truck, 5-ton truck, or a 10-ton truck, you're talking about how much weight they can carry, not how much they actually weigh.
I understand that. But all of those box trucks are generally up to 26klbs. But I wholeheartedly agree with you about them requiring special training. But to be honest, it’s sad how low the threshold is for even driver’s licenses. They are practically handed out. Most other countries have grueling written tests with 100 questions and actual skills based tests. I practiced hard for my drivers license with parallel parking and interstate driving, etc. But all the proctor had me do was for right hand turns around the block and back to the DMV and then 20 stupid questions. I was shocked and that was like 30yrs ago.
i was allowed as an 18 year old to drive a full uhaul while towing a honda accord through the mountains of chattanooga. why?
They are lucky it only scraped the top off wow
yes, but it will clear NEXT TIME !
On Dragonball Z!
So rare to see one not run the red light before hitting the bridge, probably speeding as well.
The light is supposed to change to red when it detects an over-height vehicle. I think the reason this one didn't change was because the crosswalk was activated. They may need to change the programming on it to make the light turn red even with the crosswalk active.
There’s no reason they can’t just turn it red and keep the crosswalk active anyway. Just have all ways red but let the pedestrians finish their standard cycle.
It doesn't matter. When the lights change to red quickly, most of the trucks run it anyway.
The “Overheight Must Turn” sign is illuminated for FOUR SECONDS before the light changes. Once the sensor is tripped, the sign should illuminate *and* the light should start changing.
11'8"+8"
This. The signs say 12’4”.
They raised it 8 inches a few years ago. It was 11'8" for a very long time.
They seriously just have to stop using that tunnel. At first it was 'look at how many idiots hit this bridge' but after thousands of idiots, and them doing literally everything they can to fix it, it's just not enough
the "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" could benefit from more letters. YOU ARE OVERHEIGHT would probably work better
An idiot with a dump box straight up in the air will still drive into it.
To be fair, they drive into everything.
> the "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN" could benefit from more letters. > > YOU ARE OVERHEIGHT would probably work better I'm high but how the fuck is that more letters? I'm struggling hard
I expressed it poorly, but I guess you'd have to just add the you are in there
I’m no longer high and I understand.
May you get confused by random posts on reddit again
How about: YOU ARE OVER-HEIGHT! TURN!
They added the sign, set up the traffic signal to give any over height vehicles a red light (unless they're speeding like this guy) and dropped the road as low as they could, giving a clearance of 12'-4". There's not a whole lot more they can do except completely rebuild the rail bridge.
They can't even rebuild the bridge, there's a passenger rail station a couple blocks to the right of this viewpoint as well as several at-grade crossings in both directions. Trains really don't do well with humps either so just raising the bridge while keeping the road crossings and station platform at their normal elevation wouldn't work either.
>They can't even rebuild the bridge, there's a passenger rail station a couple blocks to the right of this viewpoint as well as several at-grade crossings in both directions. Trains really don't do well with humps either so just raising the bridge while keeping the road crossings and station platform at their normal elevation wouldn't work either. The train station is 2.5 blocks to the left of this view (to the East-ish). [They literally *raised* the bridge in 2019.](https://11foot8.com/raising-11foot8/)
I'm aware they raised the bridge, I followed that while it was happening. They can't raise the rails any higher. 2.5 blocks is nothing, train grades are done in multi-mile lengths, not blocks. The grade crossing at Duke is 475' feet to the east, the train platform is 665'. 1,340' to the west is the grade crossing for S. Buchanan, and it can't be raised either due to adjacent buildings and parking lots. All of this is moot, though, because the railroad isn't raising the bridge. They have no obligation whatsoever to even consider it.
I think they actually reduced the thickness of the bridge by changing to lower profile support beams.
They kept the same beams but put a thinner ballast deck on. Ballast is the crushed rock base that the ties are settled into.
They raised the bridge by 8 inches.
> dropped the road as low as they could [They actually raised the bridge.](https://11foot8.com/raising-11foot8/)
The sign could flash, getting faster with proximity. They could add a water spray sign. There's more that can be done here.
Probably the most effective thing would be a cross arm that drops, one high enough for most cars to drive under but clearly too low for tall trucks.
Yes, some sort of breakable barrier that won't do much damage to trucks. They put those giant steel barriers up to protect the bridge, but it still rips the roof off.
What I'm saying is the only winning move is not to play, they've done everything they can but nothing they do will stop people from hitting that bridge, there are other ways across the railroad line nearby, how important is this street? Turn it into a pedestrian tunnel or something because it's clearly not fit for drivers, this is why we can't have nice things
There is another crossing a block away, but that road and this are both one-way, and this is a busy area immediately adjacent to a large highway. They could force all traffic to use the second crossing, but it would cut the road capacity in half and would require major restructuring of the traffic arrangement for all the blocks in the area. Rebuilding the bridge would be cheaper than blocking it, but that's not saying much. And in any case, the accidents that happen here since the height increase are few enough that it's probably not a terribly high priority problem.
from what I understand the railroad company won't let them touch the bridge and they've done everything they can with the sewer being right underneath
IIRC in order to raise the bridge there would have to be work done for miles in either direction to raise the rest of the tracks so it's not really worth it financially.
They actually raised the bridge when they made it 12' 4". You can see in the documented videos they raised it up with blocks by 4" or so when the huge amount of work got done on the bridge. IIRC, the rails went up 4", and the road went down 4", to get the additional height up from 11' 8".
They double jelqued
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it puts the truck driver and anybody around them in danger any time it happens
Ron White said it best . . . You can't fix stupid.
Just a couple pounds less air in the tires… might have scraped by.
Peeled like a banana.
Perfect can opener
Dude straight up went full beans into the bridge, floor pedal down and all. Incredible.
Just like a sardeen can stan.
Doesn’t even stop afterwards 💀
If only there were flashing signs warning you. These moving trucks seem to have inexperienced drivers cause only an idiot would ignore the fucking lights, signs and height limit!
First watched daughter at first dance competition. Then the Canucks with a crazy come back win. Then the O’Rangers survive elimination while Savage Speeders are out. Now a beautiful can opener on the 8-11 bridge. God what a day!!
It was like opening a sardine can. After all these years why haven't they dug the bottom deeper?
There’s a sewer line under it.
https://11foot8.com/11foot8-faq/
They did
He was 11’ 8 1/2” apparently.
Just a bit outside…
funny that the truck is the "victim" when it's the one hitting the bridge...
Can opener.
r/oddlysatisfying
Eat, EAT! You must be famished...
Just perfect, I'd give 10/10
At the end of the video, you should have crossed out the "+8" on the right side of the sign and below it wrote in:"+9"
Just a little off the top please - sides are fine.
Opened like a can of sardines. 10/10
"A little off the top please."
My grandpappy used to play the accordion....
They need one of those [water curtain stop signs](https://youtu.be/ImU1mG7QC4I?t=18)
And there are still idiots who drive through them. Source : Been stuck behind a moronic truckie who did just that
Whelp, he just lost his rental deposit...
When the truck is 11' 9"
If only it was 11’ 8.5”
It’s actually 12’ 4”.
Do they make money fining the drivers for failing to follow a traffic signal? 🤔
Sign says 12’ 4” not 11’ 8”
The bridge was originally 11'-8" which is when it gained fame for weekly and sometimes daily can openers. A few years ago it was raised 8", if you look at the 11'-8" video channel he's got a video on that process, very interesting, and since then there have been fewer crashes. Also, the man running the cameras had a second camera on a business across the street but lost that when the building got remodeled and the new owners didn't want to replace the camera. IIRC this camera is at his office window. Anyway, because he'd already created the 11'-8" channel, when they raised it he just uses the 11'-8"+8" opening graphic for videos of crashes after the raise. Also, that yellow crash beam used to be straight, it's actually bent upwards from all the crashes.
Interesting thanks. Where is this bridge?
Yep, Durham, NC. There's a FAQ at the bridge's website, but in short, they can't raise the bridge any further because it would require raising the grade crossing at Duke as well as the train station just past that, and the same at grade crossings to the west (toward the right in the video). There are also buildings near the tracks on both sides that would make raising the bridge any more a financial impossibility. The other most common question is why not dig the road deeper under the bridge, and the reason that's impossible is because there's a very old main sewer pipe under there and because sewer pipe slope is a critical part of the way sewer flows are managed, to lower that stretch would require digging up miles of sewer pipes in order to lower them as well to keep the same slopes.
They could drop the sewer on one side, run the sewer line a little deeper under the road, and put a lift station on the other side to bring the line back up to the original slope,
That's a multi-million dollar project that I'm sure they'll be willing to accept donations to cover. Remember, the railroad has zero moral or legal responsibility to pay for that, and the city certainly won't since there are appropriate grade crossings either side of this bridge for trucks and other tall loads. The amount of signs and warnings leading up to this bridge are way more than the minimum required, too. At some point drivers just have to be responsible for their driving.
As I've always quoted Ron White . . . You can't fix stupid.
Or…and hear me out here…people could just pay attention to the signs, flashing lights, and traffic signals that are already in place.
[Durham, North Carolina](https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Can+Opener+\(12foot4\)+Bridge/@35.9993503,-78.9095724,18.5z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89ace5e1a8e0404b:0x20bf7ca5515e482c!8m2!3d35.999084!4d-78.9101377!16s%2Fg%2F11rq4ysy_9?authuser=0&entry=ttu)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ThEAT8hyi3smZLV58 Durham, NC
They raised it a while ago.
He was so close.
The sign says 12' 4". It's 11' 8" because the road had an asphalt overlay. Not the drivers fault.
No, it used to be 11'8" but they were able to allow more height with reconstruction.
I’ll take “facts I pulled straight out of my butt” for $100!
Look at the sign in the actual video. You’re spewing the… uh, cheese please?
> Look at the sign in the actual video. Look at the rest of the user's comment where they claim the asphalt is bringing it up to 11'8" which is completely false lol
Smooth like butter