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Related: About this forumFirst sign of truck convoy headed to DC passes through Maryland.
https://www.wbal.com/article/555449/124/first-sign-of-truck-convoy-headed-to-dc-passes-through-maryland?
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First sign of truck convoy headed to DC passes through Maryland. (Original Post)
elleng
Feb 2022
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Chainfire
(17,757 posts)1. I wonder how many overpasses that they have to drive under? ;)
Duncanpup
(13,823 posts)2. Crooks and liars
Description is of Wednesday convoy was one truck two flat tires these drivers are hateful racist.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)3. Hmmm ... drop the tire spike strips - yet! n/t
RipVanWinkle
(266 posts)4. Too bad the convoy didn't pass through Durham, NC
love_katz
(2,872 posts)5. The infamous can opener bridge.
I wish we could move it right into the path of these idiot convoys. It would be perfect justice!
GopherGal
(2,401 posts)7. In Boston, it has its own verb
It's known as "storrowing" for Storrow Drive's many treacherously low overpasses.
A box truck innocently enters Storrow Drive maybe students renting a U-Haul or a delivery from out of town and doesnt take heed of the signs noting a 10-foot height limit. Before they know it, the top is shorn off the truck or theyre stuck under a bridge with traffic backing up behind them.
Bostons Storrow Drive is now infamous for a certain kind of accident; specifically, the truck-to-bridge collision. In fact, the phenomenon of trucks hitting the underside of a bridge on the parkway has become so iconic that the term Storrowed now loosely applies to any truck-hitting-bridge incident around New England.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/08/19/boston-storrowing-what-to-know/]
love_katz
(2,872 posts)8. Thanks for sharing the link.
I am now retired, but I spent over 21 years training school bus drivers. One of the last presentations that I created was about height clearances and weight limits. I found the articles at your link extremely interesting and, rather sadly, amusing.
doc03
(36,978 posts)6. I saw one truck a pickup and just normal traffic nt