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Thought I’d get a more definitive clearance measurement as I loaded up the camper today. Was using 12-6 but will consider 12-2 with spotter 😎. 2018 drw 350 stock gasser with af 990 (tanks/gear empty)
Had 2” to spare over the ac
Clearance dropped as the nose of the truck lowered Sloped access to shed
We're 11'10" to the top of the A/C with our 1062 on our 2011 F350 CC DRW King Ranch with 10# of air in the air bags.
Mounted on our F250 on one of the first voyages we made, I stopped a few times and double-checked things before blindly going forward. Measured it when we got home and it is 2" higher on our F250..... hey! it fits and that's all the counts!
I was 11'4" with my Northern Lite and I always just considered it to be 12' to give me a little wiggle room.
Yes, I give myself 3" of leeway as that is the travel on my airbags at the rear bumper between 5# and 100#. If I see a sign that says clearance 12' I make darn sure my bags are <50# before entering. Probably would clear but then with my luck there would be gravel or something on the road.
One of the "easy" questions on our Police Recruit Entrance Elimination exam was a picture of a log truck stuck under an overpass because of insufficient clearance. The recruit candidate was to provide a one line sentence on what he would do to clear the roadway without waiting for a tow truck....one would be surprised how many of our big city college educated candidates could not answer that question.
Hopefully everyone realized I was joking. Leaving the University of Minnesota and heading towards downtown was a low railroad bridge trucks used to get stuck under all the time so I often saw then airing down to try to get unstuck.
That's an easy one. I would just unload the truck.
There are some that do just that…………………on the run!!!!! LOL
There was one time up in Canada the the driver unloaded a big Caterpillar excavator right on the freeway on the run!!
That's an easy one. I would just unload the truck.
Originally Posted by RV_Tech
Hopefully everyone realized I was joking. Leaving the University of Minnesota and heading towards downtown was a low railroad bridge trucks used to get stuck under all the time so I often saw then airing down to try to get unstuck.
I most certainly thought you were joking, hence my devil emoji as opposed to one laughing at you! It would be interesting to see someone unloading a load of logs when the top logs were wedged and jammed on the bottom of an overpass. Although, I've seen a couple who would seriously trying.to do just that with their self loaders. My father in law drove log trucks, including a self loader. Some of the stories he could tell......
We had an overpass on I-5 NB MP125 that had low outer half right lane clearance. If they didn't straddle the lane divider line or get over into the left lane, the trucks pushing the load height limits would hit the overpass. 4350 signs and amber lights didn't seem to get the point across. There was plenty of clearance in the left lane. At least twice a month we would have to run traffic control while loads were picked up and ODOT cleaned up concrete off (some were big chunks) off of the freeway. Finally, around 1994, ODOT got a grant from US Department of Transportation to raise the overpass by 2 feet.
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My father in law drove log trucks, including a self loader. Some of the stories he could tell......