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Boston is home to any number of bridges that trucks don't fit under, most famously on Storrow Drive. Rating truck/bridge interactions has become a bit of a pas
by mauvehaus 6y ago
Boston is home to any number of bridges that trucks don't fit under, most famously on Storrow Drive.
Rating truck/bridge interactions has become a bit of a past time on universalhub:
https://www.universalhub.com/storrow https://www.universalhub.com/storrow
Every year when college students move back in and out, the powers that be put up illuminated construction signs everywhere to try to keep the number of rental trucks on roads they shouldn't be to a minimum. They're mostly successful.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 6y agoI drove a box truck (most often Penske/Ryder rentals just like the ones you see in this video) around most of the nation for a job when I was younger. The only two cities I had real trouble with clearances were Boston and Chicago. New York City was also a pain but for different and obvious reasons. I suspect if it hasn’t happened yet a decent commercial software solution would be to produce an app that took OSM and overlay all of the bridges with clearances in major cities into it so that you could route around them after entering your height. I specifically remember doing a lot of reversing back up streets in Chicago because nothing like that existed at the time (this was in the early 2010s).