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Yea,was trying to remember what Texas considers min.Its something like 14'6".Its not law just common practice.Service road dosnt apply just the main highway. Interstates are different. I believe the min is 16'. I just don't remember.
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Good point it is an interstate.
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Yea,was trying to remember what Texas considers min.Its something like 14'6".Its not law just common practice.Service road dosnt apply just the main highway. Interstates are different. I believe the min is 16'. I just don't remember. Wonder what the min. is under a construction zone? That's the key to who will be sued. Trucking company or the contractor, sure all will be sued and will settle out of court of course. So I looked up Man lift. Found that and boom lift depending on size. Boom lift has only a straight crane type arm, straight. Others have a arm with a break in the middle.
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Construction zones are a different critter.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Did some checking.The bridge was 14 feet 1/2 inch.Posted height was13 feet 6 inches. OOPS! That will cost some highway engineer or contractor a job. Depends if signing the change was in the plans or contract.
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if the bridge was 14 feet and 1/2 inch clearance but the signs said 13 feet 6 inches clearance and you cleared 13/6, how could you not clear 14? Am I missing something? Which is very possible.
I could see it if the sign said 14 but clearance was 13/6
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Did some checking.The bridge was 14 feet 1/2 inch.Posted height was13 feet 6 inches. OOPS! That will cost some highway engineer or contractor a job. Depends if signing the change was in the plans or contract. What? They always post it as less than actual. Repaving etc etc. Nothing wrong with that posting.
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Yep, I really messed that one up, read it backwards.
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There's been a rumor bouncing around Texas for years, that the Highway dep't is mostly staffed by Texas A&M Grads, and they decided to have some fun with Austin's freeways, while the little town of College Station got really well designed roads.  I always figure it was Aggies responsible for the synchronization of traffic lights, or lack thereof, on the main drags through B/CS. I was walking back from campus around 3am on account of some Grad student-related thing, mostly deserted streets at that hour, when I heard a guy stopped at yet another red light yell "F&&&&&&K!!I'M ALREADY AN HOUR LATE AND I GOT ANOTHER F&&&&KING RED LIGHT!!"Trust me, I could feel his pain. Birdwatcher
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Interstates are different. In lots of rules besides height. miles
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Yea,was trying to remember what Texas considers min.Its something like 14'6".Its not law just common practice.Service road dosnt apply just the main highway. Interstates are different. I believe the min is 16'. I just don't remember. Plenty are grandfathered in. New standards don't match across the board. In the end, so long as the distance wasn't less than the sign stated, it all falls on the driver as far as I'm concerned.
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In the end, so long as the distance wasn't less than the sign stated, it all falls on the driver as far as I'm concerned. Agreed, but you can't imagine how many are hit because of the driver. I did a survey to lower the road in El Dorado, Arkansas because the log truck drivers kept hitting it with their top layer of logs. The correct height was posted and had been for many years. Most times the top layer was small logs and simply knocked them off and made a traffic hazard, but sometime they were large and did damage to the bridge. miles
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Loggers are the worse by a goodly margin. We have a pulp mill not far and the loggers are a real PIA.
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Loggers are the worse by a goodly margin. Gravel trucks are close. They both have the motto, Load heavy and drive fast. In the case of pulp trucks, they have to get tall to be heavy, at times. miles
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