Bridge survived, but as for lorry. Well, it was seemless to be a tie. Lorry seem to be untouched, for the rear cargo carrying well is completely destroyed, and steal bars had just got smartly curved in to shape with bridge super strength. Bridge, is still holding strong concrete without a stone chipped or fallen. This match, bridge wins!
Not even joking the guy who recovered me from my blow out was the guy who recovered this truck. He was a new pass ex warehouse guy and apparently asda wouldn't unload the pallets due to health and safety. He said they had to pull it onto the road outside the RDC and his mate had to borrow a forklift to unload it for them.
The sign is for halfords mot testing. I live near harrogate and used to work at the adds this truck was delivering to, I worked there when i was 16 about 3 years ago as a part time job.
The recovery company did as much damage to the bridge getting the truck out! They should have removed the unit, dropped the legs, then pull the trailer out backwards. Maybe even deflate the tyres for additional clearance.
I feel sorry for the driver when things go wrong in the lorry driving job, it's a big mess, I am a lorry driver and I have learned one thing from it , YOU ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST LOAD AND NOBODY GIVES A F**K ABOUT YOU
I know someone who got stuck under a bridge like this once, it had to be throughly investigated because the bridge said 14 I think it was, just like this, and his trailer was a couple inches lower. However, the road had been retarmaced and somehow it managed to result in him getting a little wedged. Nowhere near as bad as this, he just heard scratching and stopped immediately out of fear of damaging anything. Anyway, he got sacked and took them to court and lost.
I am a truck driver and I can tell you this you should never ever try to go under a bridge if you think you have a couple of inches if your wagon says 14 ft always give yourself an extra foot to be safe and use the proper sat navs not car navigations or Google Maps or any other map app you can get off your phone he's driving a double decker he deserves to get sacked that's not an accident it's negligence
@@stevenobrien2596 in Europe trucks are 4 meter high, and there are many bridges that are 4 meter high, even on the highway! And always could go without a problem. I guess the bridge is a little higher than 4 meter but still... I knew a place where 4 meter trucks used to go under a 3,9 meter bridge. And in Poland, you can even go under a 3,5 meter bridge without a problem, because they measure the height of the bridge starting from the axle and not the ground lol
that poor guy in the ASDA hi-viz knows he's sacked. There's apparently going to be new laws for negligent drivers, resulting in instant bans -- if you hit a bridge, like this clip
@@andersjohansson4934 apparently hitting a bridge in the UK is thought of as totally preventable (I guess it really is when you think about it) -- it's the driver's responsibility to not hit a bridge. During my driving lessons I remember the instructor telling me that instant bans for hitting a bridge was going to be mandatory -- I read this also in the news in UK the same day I saw this clip. I am pretty sure my instructor also told me there are regional (for each county or state) traffic safety inspectors that judge individual incidents when a bridge is struck. Where I live, in Wiltshire, the inspector is the toughest at giving out bans for hitting a bridge.
@@andersjohansson4934 it's basically because they are a financial liability. If the driver is doing his job correctly then he wouldn't hit bridge's and a lot of major companies the Driver's have a route to follow set down by the company. Some companies have computer hardware to track the vehicles and if they are deviating of the route into danger both driver and transport office are alerted automatically., there's some very clever software out there nowadays.
The Banana Factory Bollox, i've worked for them myself through agency, whoever told you they are on £14+ an hour is talking out their arse, even for nightshift, not a chance.
That's pointless giving them a flatbed as most of the shower that drive HGVs for them wouldn't know how to rope and sheet, but the driver in this case would make a good stobart driver so all's not lost for him.
Driving such a big vehicle threw a town or city must be a nightmare, nevermind parking for a drop of!!!! And not knowing what bridgers or obstacles are around the next corner. Hats of to them!!💛
There are road signs that tell lorry drivers if there are low bridges before they go down that road. It's not hard to avoid low bridges when driving a 16 foot double decker. But it's one thing to turn down a road and realise you fucked up and won't fit under that bridge, it's whole other level.of stupid to actually continue driving and hit the bridge.
@@Ellis01234567890 Not always mate just like there are not always road signs for weight limits and no through roads. I know because I got caught out a few weeks ago and needed to call the Police to assist me.
@@davidyoung9561 If a bridge is low like this, there is always a couple of signs... Driver must of forgotten he has carrying a different load or something...
Nothing changes. Because of the shortage in hgv drivers, the amount of complete idiots that have joined us or helping, that a year ago would never pass the in house assessment is ridiculous. Costing 100s of thousands of pounds. From driving back from store with taillift up and doors open to driving double deck top not lowered and dropping trailer without lowering legs completely bending the units axle... the list goes on. The desperation in hiring this year is a joke. Far to many long term good drivers are quitting because of a lack in respect. A pity when the company is good.
I'm a truck driver and this is my fear, imagine ringing the transport office and all of the emergency services showing up. If I come across a bridge im going to be 100% sure I can fit, I don't care if I have to stop in the middle of the road and get out or if I have to struggle to turn my truck around. I don't think there's any excuse for this.
Yes ,I can't understand why people consider save to go unsafe way then to stop in the middle of the road ... I mean it's in uK ..in Most European countries its absolutely normal and no one even observe as something special or wrong, or potentially dengerouse . Only dengerouse stop is motorway stop. I can't understand unsafe " safety suggestions" in uk
As an HGV driver you are not working as a team, it's "there's your truck get on with it!" If you were getting guidance on routes etc fair enough, but no, the outsider doesn't understand the responsibility unless he's done it, these things happen on a daily basis to dozens of HGV drivers around the UK. No one got hurt. Life goes on.
No offense fella but this driver had about 85% of the lorry stuck. He would have felt the lorry struggling but kept moving forward until it was wedged in good and proper. Its one thing making a mistake but another thing to keep accelerating
Nah hitting a low bridge is a big deal, no trains can pass over the bridge until a structural engineer has been and made sure the bridge is ok, this means cancelled trains and rail replacement buses are needed and then there is the cost of the road closure due to it and all the police having to attend too. There is the cost of the trailer which is not cheap either and potential missed deliveries. Its not some minor thing like scrapping a bit of street furniture its very serious and your HGV/Bus driving career is finished if you strike a bridge the Traffic Commisioner will take your entitlements real fast.
No sympathy the bridge was clearly marked as was the height of his trailer I am sure .As a driver that is the thing you check when you couple up and set your height inside the cab
When I was a Hgv driver I hit a petrol station canopy, everyone filling up looked over, then I had to go in the petrol garage, I said to the cashier " I've just hit your canopy" he replied "I noticed", wanted the ground to swallow me up.
@@guitarmuso1 it's a tough old world out there for truckers. They have so much to think about and concentrate on. It's long hours and the wages are crap. I'm so glad I'm out of that game.
Every low bridge should have a height bar 20 or 30 metres before the bridge so the lorry would hit the bar rather than the bridge. Authorities are not doing enough.
It's not a very common occurrence so a height bar is completely unnecessary on most bridges. It takes a tremendous amount of stupidity to actually hit a bridge
@@michaelcorder8561 It wouldn't matter if he was using a sat Nav or not. I use Google maps All the time. I just make sure I don't turn down any roads I'm not supposed to by looking at signs. It's one thing to get to a bridge and realise you fucked up but to be completely oblivious to it and go through anyway isn't an easy mistake to make. Personally, I don't think someone who can make that mistake should be driving a HGV
@@Ellis01234567890 I drive a hgv for a living. For a very large company. You would be surprised what some drivers do. Even when it states low bridge they still go down the road. ..?
@@michaelcorder8561 Last year I was driving 16.4 foot double deckers for Tesco. Like I said, it's one thing to turn down a road with a low bridge and realise you've fucked up and stop before actually going under it. That's a mistake I can understand, but to just plough under a 14 foot bridge with a 16 footer is not understandable. It takes a lot of stupidity and disregard for safety to do that. That sort of person should not be driving a 44 tonne vehicle.
@@Poschet0423 yeah this trailer is double decked.. a standard trailer here is about the same, 13'6" - 14'6".. i pull trailers 15'5" which are double stacked 👍
The tractor unit is probably worth thousands compared to the trailer ,looks cheap and cheerful with lights on it ,a good sledgehammer would probably do just as much damage.
Spoke to someone the other day whilst unloading and them High Cube Trailors can cost in Excess of a £150.000, that was for a Fridge Trailor and not a Curtain side though.
I would imagine the most expensive part`s would be below the flatbed ,the posts either side to support the ratchet bar things would be bolted to the flatbed part of it so just a matter of replacing the panels on the front sides and back plus any wiring for the lights rather than scrap the whole trailer if it was damaged?
At least while he was under the bridge he wasn't holding up motorists up on the road and getting lorry drivers a bad name like they do , so there's a plus side to everything.
That bridge doesn't lok 14 feet at the edge of the road, andyet it's not marked with a width restriction. Add the lights immediately under the bidge, which the driver was probably focused on, and you have a road design issue that needs sorting.
There should have been warning signs of the bridge and height signs at least a couple hundred yard before the bridge, there usually are. Still the drivers fault. I drive trucks myself and I know the height of the truck and when I get to a bridge I always look at the sign, all bridges have height signs, there really is no excuse.
@@daviddou1408 There should be road markings indicating high vehicles must use the centre of the road. Sometimes the boundary of the hight restriction is marked on the bridge arch itsself. I can see neither. Additionally the pedestrian crossing is too close to the bridge requiring high vehicles to stop in the middle of the carrage way, which will feel very uncomfortable, and possibly block to oncoming traffic waiting at the crossing.
Jeez, he done a job on that trailer. The cost must have been astronomic, i think harrogate has a busy rail network going through it, HST's go through there and they would have to stop all trains till the bridge was inspected.
Poor bloke, he’s probably used to normal height sized trailers but with those super wagons he probably took the height for granted, sometimes experience makes you less weary about certain parameters
A classic case of at least get out before the bridge and see if it fits under, but whoever was driving this must of been high or pissed to think that would go under that, 😂
I remember working for Asda George at Brackmills years ago. They had drive through truck and trailer wash....super duper, it was only a few months old when someone decided to put a Scania with double decker for a wash. The washer was broken on the trailer as it was too high.They also had a printer in the office , which often needed paper😂. Do they still have 1-800 how's my driving?, or is it just 1-800 were recruiting 😂 Either way that accident shows licence cpc modules brought in by government are a total waste of time,and money, says it all for me.
most of the HGV drivers where im based are foreign-most of these foreign drivers are completely bamboozled with metric imperial height conversions-our trailers have the height listed on the front of them in metric yet your height chart in the cab is in feet and inches-some bridges in the uk have height only in feet and inches ,this can lead to the odd issue
@@sauceymistersausages explain please.....we all go through life,the bottom line is we are all responsible for our own actions ....why is this different?
Anyone remember Blackwall tunnel northbound, 13'4" in old money? I was stopped by the alarm and red light at rush hour one morning, incurred the gesticulations of every other motorist and wrath of the two coppers who turnd up. While one was about to caution me the other measured the height of the trailer, thirteen feet one and a half inches. Long story short, it turned out to be a faulty sensor at the entrance to the tunnel. That was in the days when there were daily radio reports of 'delays caused by overheight lorry in Blackwall tunnel northbound'. The police were gutted when they had to let me go!!
It baffles me when I see this, clearly he’s pulling a 16footer and clearly theirs a 14foot bridge, I know some of you will say mistakes happen well of course they do, but seriously he must have took a wrong turn…. All I can say is he’s a plumb
Correct, I was thinking when I saw the start of the video wtf do you not see signs for that bridge, unless had his sat nav set to under 14'9" and forgot
I don't. If the bridge is low she should be going slow enough that as soon as it touched he stops. Too much serious damage is done to bridges by careless HGV drivers. It is so dangerous.
Please correct me if i'm wrong i'm a new hgv driver, 2 months to be exact and i know no trailer will pass under 13"9 or something bassically i transport trailers of 4m minimum and is see his cabin look like 12-13" but his trailer 4,2m so every time when i get a 4m or 4,3m or whatever, i just add 0.2m as a safety precaution
He's forgot he's got a double decker trailer, probably takes a standard 45ft through there regularly, slightest bit of complacency and you get this monstrous fk up
Ye one day I took that many different sized trailers out I nearly forgot I had a 16 ft on one once I didn't hit anything but theirs so many things to think about when trucking weight limits bridges signage is poor and sometimes you miss a sign because of consentrating on the road we can get so many fines it's unreal or lose our job or even prison probably more than any other job it sometimes happens when your tired a woman said once you shouldn't drive when your tired well you try working and driving for 15hrs shifts 3 days in a row then tell me your not tired if we drove only when we weren't tired nothing would get delivered or starting a shift 12 am and you haven't been able sleep in the daytime or sleeping on a layby because all the truck stops are full
@MadArticDriver Do you think the one in the cab says "Drive through centre of arch" - or indeed that the height marked in the centre of the arch is the height at (only) the centre of the arch.
Of course, a double decker trailer is going to fit under a 14ft arched bridge. Not only did he try it, which is bad enough, but he charged through it. RAMMING SPEED. I just don't understand how someone with a HGV license does this
if that driver is an experienced HGV driver he should know the total of height of his vehicle, if I was the transport manager of his depot I would sack him straight away then take him to court for damaging company property, due to neglect, then whoever owns the bridge claim from him for repairs to the bridge, that is pure carelessness, and his licence taken away. I was an HGV driver for just under twenty years, and if that happened with any of their vehicles, my boss you would have had your cards ready as soon as you got back to the depot
I hope he finished his delivery? Imagine him pulling into the loading bay with the top of trailer crumpled!! They'll be a lot of dented tins when that delivery finally reaches its destination!!
Simple, use your eyes....16 foot trailer will NOT fit through 14 foot bridge. Obviously oblivious to the trailer height. Should check the route before setting off, and pay attention to what they're doing. Even truck Satnav's make occasional mistakes. Professional drivers who should know better. Not rocket science is it. 🤪🤣
How the hell did the driver think he could go under that bridge,it so obvious that it was too high. Hope he booked with specsavers to get some glasses.
I heard the latest is licence gone for 6 months, I don't understand why a low bridge is a sign to slow down and check, I've realised I won't get through a hand of of times but never close to doing anything like this maybe he was distracted 🤔
About time these idiots were fully prosecuted for dangerous driving. It is only a matter of time before one of the dimwits causes a major train crash. Furthermore they should also be charged for all of the cost of the delays to the trains created by their incompetence.
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The speed at which a bridge could be built over a wagon caught the driver by surprise ....
The Victorians knew how to build a bridge! Barely a mark on it.
davie maclean structurally underneath bit of wear n tear todays bridges fall if u sneeze to loudly
perfect bridges for carts pulled by horses. not good for 21 century.
Is Eddie stobart lorry name claire in yet
igo under this everyday
Bridge survived, but as for lorry. Well, it was seemless to be a tie. Lorry seem to be untouched, for the rear cargo carrying well is completely destroyed, and steal bars had just got smartly curved in to shape with bridge super strength. Bridge, is still holding strong concrete without a stone chipped or fallen. This match, bridge wins!
Asda. Rolling back not just their prices!
I watch these after a bad day at work because no matter how bad it gets I'm not sitting in the cab about to explain this to my boss lmao
Yup I'm a new driver passed last year. I've had one tiny scrape. Nothing like these twats though.
That's hilarious, i cracked a mudguard getting onto a bay yesterday and now i'm watching these thinking it was nothing
@@Billy_W Standard stuff breaking mudguards they probably always have them in stock back at the yard.
He could easily get through if he took another run at it
Hahaha
Hahahaha. He should have floored it.
Maybe if he tries going through sideways... 🤔🤔😂
@@samferguson198 yes I bet he could
Nice one!!
I like the well placed sign...we are hiring...new driver required lol.
Not even joking the guy who recovered me from my blow out was the guy who recovered this truck. He was a new pass ex warehouse guy and apparently asda wouldn't unload the pallets due to health and safety. He said they had to pull it onto the road outside the RDC and his mate had to borrow a forklift to unload it for them.
fastasfox 😂
The sign is for halfords mot testing. I live near harrogate and used to work at the adds this truck was delivering to, I worked there when i was 16 about 3 years ago as a part time job.
@@jonathanwalsh2371 That's asda for you
They put the sign up earlier as they knew the lorry was going to get stuck.
Hes On his Phone to the Agency ." Same time In morning ?
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Hahaha is it time and a half tomorrow?
The recovery company did as much damage to the bridge getting the truck out!
They should have removed the unit, dropped the legs, then pull the trailer out backwards. Maybe even deflate the tyres for additional clearance.
Difficult because it is tensioned, parts could spring out anywhere is they did any of that.
I noticed that as well
The problem is not the low bridges that have been there for 150 years ,it's the double decker trailers that are now being used.
Fuel prices caused that..why run two units when one will suffice with twice the height of trailer.
True although there is only 2ft difference in height for the extra 18 pallets it's a no brainer for the accountants.
Plenty of standard trailers won't get under either the ones I pull are 14ft 3.
That 14 foot sign is a dead giveaway drive,16--1 double decker just wont go
Driver thought the sign was in metric. 14 meter clearance, no problem.
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I feel sorry for the driver when things go wrong in the lorry driving job, it's a big mess, I am a lorry driver and I have learned one thing from it , YOU ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST LOAD AND NOBODY GIVES A F**K ABOUT YOU
As a driver myself, I don't see how this driver could think that that huge trailer was going to fit under a 14ft bridge!
I would bet he forgot to change the height indicator in the cab
Double decker trailers don't fit under most low bridges they're always around 16ft tall.
@@FordyHunt that's no excuse
@@gravemind6536 he should have known that! No excuse
@@chrisharper8380 I wasn't making excuses, just suggesting an explanation
I know someone who got stuck under a bridge like this once, it had to be throughly investigated because the bridge said 14 I think it was, just like this, and his trailer was a couple inches lower. However, the road had been retarmaced and somehow it managed to result in him getting a little wedged. Nowhere near as bad as this, he just heard scratching and stopped immediately out of fear of damaging anything.
Anyway, he got sacked and took them to court and lost.
I am a truck driver and I can tell you this you should never ever try to go under a bridge if you think you have a couple of inches if your wagon says 14 ft always give yourself an extra foot to be safe and use the proper sat navs not car navigations or Google Maps or any other map app you can get off your phone he's driving a double decker he deserves to get sacked that's not an accident it's negligence
this truck is 16 foot roughly
@@jamesi2018 was lol
@@stevenobrien2596 in Europe trucks are 4 meter high, and there are many bridges that are 4 meter high, even on the highway! And always could go without a problem. I guess the bridge is a little higher than 4 meter but still... I knew a place where 4 meter trucks used to go under a 3,9 meter bridge. And in Poland, you can even go under a 3,5 meter bridge without a problem, because they measure the height of the bridge starting from the axle and not the ground lol
@@stevenobrien2596 Precis! Andvänd hjärnan!
I would have been ashamed to stand there with my Asda high viz on
I would be ashamed to wear an ASDA hi-viz at all!
It's probably the hi viz that caused it as they shine back at you through the windscreen and things are missed, in this case a low bridge.
Why?
Because that just shows what a poor driver you are.
@@FK-zr9fn Have you ever driven one of them lorry's?
that poor guy in the ASDA hi-viz knows he's sacked. There's apparently going to be new laws for negligent drivers, resulting in instant bans -- if you hit a bridge, like this clip
Ok. But why? Can they sack a driver for that in the UK? (Yes! I'll know it's pretty bad to get stuck'd under a bridge) /Sweden.
@@andersjohansson4934 apparently hitting a bridge in the UK is thought of as totally preventable (I guess it really is when you think about it) -- it's the driver's responsibility to not hit a bridge. During my driving lessons I remember the instructor telling me that instant bans for hitting a bridge was going to be mandatory -- I read this also in the news in UK the same day I saw this clip. I am pretty sure my instructor also told me there are regional (for each county or state) traffic safety inspectors that judge individual incidents when a bridge is struck. Where I live, in Wiltshire, the inspector is the toughest at giving out bans for hitting a bridge.
@@andersjohansson4934 it's basically because they are a financial liability. If the driver is doing his job correctly then he wouldn't hit bridge's and a lot of major companies the Driver's have a route to follow set down by the company. Some companies have computer hardware to track the vehicles and if they are deviating of the route into danger both driver and transport office are alerted automatically., there's some very clever software out there nowadays.
@@umbrellaman2501 we dont have states in England. Very strange instructor you had and do you have a driver Cpc.
@@umbrellaman2501 Only person that can ban you is a judge in a court!
Thats what happens when you pay your drivers 7 quid an hour
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Airtrooper719 XBL Asda pay their drivers some good dough tbh
SouthEastCashew Not up north they don't
They're on more than double that. I unload these at the other end (provided they make it to the store).
The Banana Factory Bollox, i've worked for them myself through agency, whoever told you they are on £14+ an hour is talking out their arse, even for nightshift, not a chance.
Scary, I'm a trucker and this is what scares me
As long as you use a good HGV sat nav and always remember to put your trailer height in it youll be fine
Never mind all this sat nav shite ! It’s called not paying attention, no excuse whatsoever
What, a low bridge just jumps in front of you...?
Ps.: Alex Robinson summed it up properly...👍
Dude if you ever put a 16"+ trailer under a bridge like this you shouldn't be driving in the first place.
@@Zeyr01 true, the cab is normally like 14'0 so just what the heck was he doing
0:46 Love the "We're Hiring Sign on the left" lol
Poor Driver :(
thankfully Asda has a new flat bed for the fleet!
That's pointless giving them a flatbed as most of the shower that drive HGVs for them wouldn't know how to rope and sheet, but the driver in this case would make a good stobart driver so all's not lost for him.
@@paulwilson3083 lmao but agreed 👍
Driving such a big vehicle threw a town or city must be a nightmare, nevermind parking for a drop of!!!!
And not knowing what bridgers or obstacles are around the next corner. Hats of to them!!💛
There are road signs that tell lorry drivers if there are low bridges before they go down that road. It's not hard to avoid low bridges when driving a 16 foot double decker. But it's one thing to turn down a road and realise you fucked up and won't fit under that bridge, it's whole other level.of stupid to actually continue driving and hit the bridge.
@@Ellis01234567890 Not always mate just like there are not always road signs for weight limits and no through roads. I know because I got caught out a few weeks ago and needed to call the Police to assist me.
trew?
Shush baldy
@@davidyoung9561 If a bridge is low like this, there is always a couple of signs... Driver must of forgotten he has carrying a different load or something...
Nothing changes. Because of the shortage in hgv drivers, the amount of complete idiots that have joined us or helping, that a year ago would never pass the in house assessment is ridiculous. Costing 100s of thousands of pounds. From driving back from store with taillift up and doors open to driving double deck top not lowered and dropping trailer without lowering legs completely bending the units axle... the list goes on. The desperation in hiring this year is a joke. Far to many long term good drivers are quitting because of a lack in respect. A pity when the company is good.
This is from 2016
@@EnglishLaw I'm well aware of this incident. I'm just pointing out that there's a lot of idiots out there and now most of them are with us.
I'm a truck driver and this is my fear, imagine ringing the transport office and all of the emergency services showing up. If I come across a bridge im going to be 100% sure I can fit, I don't care if I have to stop in the middle of the road and get out or if I have to struggle to turn my truck around. I don't think there's any excuse for this.
Yes ,I can't understand why people consider save to go unsafe way then to stop in the middle of the road ... I mean it's in uK ..in Most European countries its absolutely normal and no one even observe as something special or wrong, or potentially dengerouse . Only dengerouse stop is motorway stop. I can't understand unsafe " safety suggestions" in uk
As an HGV driver you are not working as a team, it's "there's your truck get on with it!" If you were getting guidance on routes etc fair enough, but no, the outsider doesn't understand the responsibility unless he's done it, these things happen on a daily basis to dozens of HGV drivers around the UK. No one got hurt. Life goes on.
No offense fella but this driver had about 85% of the lorry stuck. He would have felt the lorry struggling but kept moving forward until it was wedged in good and proper. Its one thing making a mistake but another thing to keep accelerating
@@yuripuri639 The trailer unit is wedge shaped, it wouldn't have touched to roof until a fair amount of the trailer was freely under it.
Nah hitting a low bridge is a big deal, no trains can pass over the bridge until a structural engineer has been and made sure the bridge is ok, this means cancelled trains and rail replacement buses are needed and then there is the cost of the road closure due to it and all the police having to attend too. There is the cost of the trailer which is not cheap either and potential missed deliveries. Its not some minor thing like scrapping a bit of street furniture its very serious and your HGV/Bus driving career is finished if you strike a bridge the Traffic Commisioner will take your entitlements real fast.
I used to work for asda in the warehouse loading trailers. Drivers are on £11 an hour only a pound more than pickers.
Yeah as they say you get what you pay for, 😂
That's crazy, I wouldn't bother getting out of bed for that money for that job 😲
It's best to stay in the warehouse and keep quiet about having the licence.
Why would you accept this salary if nobody will accept they must increase salary like in London
Poor sod! He must have wanted the ground to swallow him up. I've been there and it's not nice 😞
No sympathy the bridge was clearly marked as was the height of his trailer I am sure .As a driver that is the thing you check when you couple up and set your height inside the cab
When I was a Hgv driver I hit a petrol station canopy, everyone filling up looked over, then I had to go in the petrol garage, I said to the cashier " I've just hit your canopy" he replied "I noticed", wanted the ground to swallow me up.
@@guitarmuso1 it's a tough old world out there for truckers. They have so much to think about and concentrate on. It's long hours and the wages are crap. I'm so glad I'm out of that game.
@@daviddou1408 no nether hit a bridge but smashed plenty of door mirrors, rear bumpers, mud guard etc
You sound like a right fookin knob by the way
Thats when they had to add another 4p onto cost of a carrier bag lmfao
Every low bridge should have a height bar 20 or 30 metres before the bridge so the lorry would hit the bar rather than the bridge. Authorities are not doing enough.
It's not a very common occurrence so a height bar is completely unnecessary on most bridges. It takes a tremendous amount of stupidity to actually hit a bridge
Drivers should know the height of the vehicle they are driving. Just plain common sense. Bet he was following a sat nav..
@@michaelcorder8561 It wouldn't matter if he was using a sat Nav or not. I use Google maps All the time. I just make sure I don't turn down any roads I'm not supposed to by looking at signs. It's one thing to get to a bridge and realise you fucked up but to be completely oblivious to it and go through anyway isn't an easy mistake to make. Personally, I don't think someone who can make that mistake should be driving a HGV
@@Ellis01234567890 I drive a hgv for a living. For a very large company. You would be surprised what some drivers do. Even when it states low bridge they still go down the road. ..?
@@michaelcorder8561 Last year I was driving 16.4 foot double deckers for Tesco. Like I said, it's one thing to turn down a road with a low bridge and realise you've fucked up and stop before actually going under it. That's a mistake I can understand, but to just plough under a 14 foot bridge with a 16 footer is not understandable. It takes a lot of stupidity and disregard for safety to do that. That sort of person should not be driving a 44 tonne vehicle.
Must be a test run for the more lenient HGV licensing test. Seems like the new system will be awesome!
When will they realise if they improve pay and conditions then they will get and keep the drivers. Fast tracking is just suicidal.
Champion it's oot now I can carry on with the rest of my deliveries, will look at my map to find oot how to get around the bridge cheers
How in the world did he expect to get a 16' double decker under a 14' bridge!!!? The words "Bell end" come to mind..
@@Poschet0423 yeah this trailer is double decked.. a standard trailer here is about the same, 13'6" - 14'6".. i pull trailers 15'5" which are double stacked 👍
You can see the sign on the bridge telling you the height for god's sake,if your the driver you should know how high your trailer is, unbelievable
Looks like he 'rolled back' the roof.
LMFAO
i was trying to think of a pun
m1aja 😂
m1aja hh
The tractor unit is probably worth thousands compared to the trailer ,looks cheap and cheerful with lights on it ,a good sledgehammer would probably do just as much damage.
around £ 90,000 for the tractor unit i'd say..
Spoke to someone the other day whilst unloading and them High Cube Trailors can cost in Excess of a £150.000, that was for a Fridge Trailor and not a Curtain side though.
I would imagine the most expensive part`s would be below the flatbed ,the posts either side to support the ratchet bar things would be bolted to the flatbed part of it so just a matter of replacing the panels on the front sides and back plus any wiring for the lights rather than scrap the whole trailer if it was damaged?
At least while he was under the bridge he wasn't holding up motorists up on the road and getting lorry drivers a bad name like they do , so there's a plus side to everything.
That bridge doesn't lok 14 feet at the edge of the road, andyet it's not marked with a width restriction. Add the lights immediately under the bidge, which the driver was probably focused on, and you have a road design issue that needs sorting.
There should have been warning signs of the bridge and height signs at least a couple hundred yard before the bridge, there usually are. Still the drivers fault. I drive trucks myself and I know the height of the truck and when I get to a bridge I always look at the sign, all bridges have height signs, there really is no excuse.
@@daviddou1408 There should be road markings indicating high vehicles must use the centre of the road. Sometimes the boundary of the hight restriction is marked on the bridge arch itsself. I can see neither.
Additionally the pedestrian crossing is too close to the bridge requiring high vehicles to stop in the middle of the carrage way, which will feel very uncomfortable, and possibly block to oncoming traffic waiting at the crossing.
Don't tell me he didn't duck as he approached that bridge.
Jeez, he done a job on that trailer. The cost must have been astronomic, i think harrogate has a busy rail network going through it, HST's go through there and they would have to stop all trains till the bridge was inspected.
The bridge is fine. Barely a scratch.
@@simontay4851 Irrelevant if you hit a rail bridge a structural engineer has to check it and give it an okay before trains can resume.
If the driver had been going fast enough, he would've easily got through!🙄😊
I agree, speed is key in this situation. I like your logic
Stevie Ross not really. He would probly have taken whole bridge with him I’m class one driver of many years. No bridge strike yet
@@peterstanley7020 i dont like the way u z yet
Richard Gorman there’s always time ..........
the driver later became a train driver
first day at work he hit a truck
J Watters did he actually
😂
Asda have been lowering prices, now they lowering their lorries 😂😂
Poor bloke, he’s probably used to normal height sized trailers but with those super wagons he probably took the height for granted, sometimes experience makes you less weary about certain parameters
Well no saving money😅
I love the way the sign to the left hand side is showing were hiring lol because that truck driver is getting his marching orders out of that job
A classic case of at least get out before the bridge and see if it fits under, but whoever was driving this must of been high or pissed to think that would go under that, 😂
It's a classic case of a driver who's not pulled a tall trailer, checked his height and isn't paying attention to road signs.
Knowing ASDA, that trailer was likely patched up and put back into use later that day 😂
Patched up ? Back out like it is I would think
Bit of T Cut will sort it out!
I remember working for Asda George at Brackmills years ago. They had drive through truck and trailer wash....super duper, it was only a few months old when someone decided to put a Scania with double decker for a wash. The washer was broken on the trailer as it was too high.They also had a printer in the office , which often needed paper😂. Do they still have 1-800 how's my driving?, or is it just 1-800 were recruiting 😂 Either way that accident shows licence cpc modules brought in by government are a total waste of time,and money, says it all for me.
I didn't know Asda delivered railway bridges!
I’d sack him.. even a blind man could tell your not getting under that…
He must have been going full tilt to make it that far under the bridge.
most of the HGV drivers where im based are foreign-most of these foreign drivers are completely bamboozled with metric imperial height conversions-our trailers have the height listed on the front of them in metric yet your height chart in the cab is in feet and inches-some bridges in the uk have height only in feet and inches ,this can lead to the odd issue
ASDA. Saving you money every day.
Except when we block a bridge and we waste everyone's money.
Some of the comments on here! I suppose you've never made a mistake in your working life. Keyboard warriors.
Although it's not always the mistake,it's the consequences...
No
@@sauceymistersausages explain please.....we all go through life,the bottom line is we are all responsible for our own actions ....why is this different?
40 yrs a trucker made plenty mistakes, but never tried to demolish a bridge.
Without even looking at the height chart on the headboard, I can tell straight away that trailer is not 14ft in height. Absolute donkey
Anyone remember Blackwall tunnel northbound, 13'4" in old money? I was stopped by the alarm and red light at rush hour one morning, incurred the gesticulations of every other motorist and wrath of the two coppers who turnd up. While one was about to caution me the other measured the height of the trailer, thirteen feet one and a half inches.
Long story short, it turned out to be a faulty sensor at the entrance to the tunnel. That was in the days when there were daily radio reports of 'delays caused by overheight lorry in Blackwall tunnel northbound'. The police were gutted when they had to let me go!!
Is Asda part of the Stobart group now ??
It baffles me when I see this, clearly he’s pulling a 16footer and clearly theirs a 14foot bridge, I know some of you will say mistakes happen well of course they do, but seriously he must have took a wrong turn…. All I can say is he’s a plumb
But that’s a double decker I’m sure there 16’2 what the hell was he thinking trying to go under a 14 foot 9 bridge
Correct, I was thinking when I saw the start of the video wtf do you not see signs for that bridge, unless had his sat nav set to under 14'9" and forgot
How fast were he going to get that far in before it jammed up??
Total plank!
Bad..feel sorry for him
Good comment.
Steel lorry mishap
I don't. If the bridge is low she should be going slow enough that as soon as it touched he stops.
Too much serious damage is done to bridges by careless HGV drivers. It is so dangerous.
Why on earth would anyone feel sorry for the driver. He or she should be ashamed of themselves for being so stupid.
I don't. A professional driver that can't read road signs?
Why send a truck into a town centre. That’s to big. Greedy supermarkets wanting to much then put all the blame on drivers
That’s the root of the problem
He will have some explaining to do ,when he gets back to the depo..
Now don't go underneath that Bridge again ha ha ha ?
0:51 “ I hate my life “
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My cat is highly interested in the middle of this video lol
The lorry kind of repaired it's self when backing out? Lol
Please correct me if i'm wrong
i'm a new hgv driver, 2 months to be exact and i know no trailer will pass under 13"9 or something
bassically i transport trailers of 4m minimum and is see his cabin look like 12-13" but his trailer 4,2m so every time when i get a 4m or 4,3m or whatever, i just add 0.2m as a safety precaution
Absolutely no excuse. This wasn’t even a close call. 16ft will never fit inside 14ft.
He's forgot he's got a double decker trailer, probably takes a standard 45ft through there regularly, slightest bit of complacency and you get this monstrous fk up
Ye one day I took that many different sized trailers out I nearly forgot I had a 16 ft on one once I didn't hit anything but theirs so many things to think about when trucking weight limits bridges signage is poor and sometimes you miss a sign because of consentrating on the road we can get so many fines it's unreal or lose our job or even prison probably more than any other job it sometimes happens when your tired a woman said once you shouldn't drive when your tired well you try working and driving for 15hrs shifts 3 days in a row then tell me your not tired if we drove only when we weren't tired nothing would get delivered or starting a shift 12 am and you haven't been able sleep in the daytime or sleeping on a layby because all the truck stops are full
ASDA - saving you money everyday. ASDA drivers - costing you money everyday. I think the driver got distracted seeing the 'we're hiring' sign 👀
He now works there since Asda fired him, and he's never been happier.
Stobart snapped up the driver in an instant !!!
Why should Asda get all the credit ?
It comes down to the genius that specified that (very special) trailer or the genius the sent it on that route.
@MadArticDriver Do you think the one in the cab says "Drive through centre of arch" - or indeed that the height marked in the centre of the arch is the height at (only) the centre of the arch.
@MadArticDriver About the last third?
Asda saving you money every day 😆 🤣
Logistics planning gone wrong, his office should plan his route.. This wouldn't happen.
Too many hgv drivers use sat navs that take them off course.
It's interesting how he went in so far deep before stopping.;
That's why he deserves the sack.
Of course, a double decker trailer is going to fit under a 14ft arched bridge. Not only did he try it, which is bad enough, but he charged through it. RAMMING SPEED. I just don't understand how someone with a HGV license does this
Not just Stobart’s then 👍
well this guy didn't save asda money today hahahahaha
ASDA trying to squeeze as many goods on as possible to save money on an extra driver and truck but they're always trying to keep prices low so
Exactly what I was thinking , double deckers are for hubs not town centres
THATS HAPPENS WHEN YOU PAY YOUR DRIVERS 6 QUID AN HOUR
Dont they have a route plan????
Asda , saving you money by getting 2 loads on 1 trailer, one absurdly high trailer!
top driver thats the way!!!!!! class!!
@Harrogate-Informer Hi, could I use this clip on my channel, linked and credited of course?
Hello Informer! Is it okay to use it please ? Thanks in advance.
if that driver is an experienced HGV driver he should know the total of height of his vehicle, if I was the transport manager of his depot I would sack him straight away then take him to court for damaging company property, due to neglect, then whoever owns the bridge claim from him for repairs to the bridge, that is pure carelessness, and his licence taken away. I was an HGV driver for just under twenty years, and if that happened with any of their vehicles, my boss you would have had your cards ready as soon as you got back to the depot
Why on earth would he even entertain the idea of taking a decker under there?
We have two bridges in Swindon where this a common problem
I hope he finished his delivery? Imagine him pulling into the loading bay with the top of trailer crumpled!! They'll be a lot of dented tins when that delivery finally reaches its destination!!
"Well you see, Officer, I was just trying to deliver this bridge..."
Simple, use your eyes....16 foot trailer will NOT fit through 14 foot bridge.
Obviously oblivious to the trailer height.
Should check the route before setting off, and pay attention to what they're doing.
Even truck Satnav's make occasional mistakes.
Professional drivers
who should know better.
Not rocket science is it. 🤪🤣
@Stuart Mullen your're not wrong there!!!
How the hell did the driver think he could go under that bridge,it so obvious that it was too high.
Hope he booked with specsavers to get some glasses.
Out you get you steering wheel attendant, the real men are here now.
I heard the latest is licence gone for 6 months, I don't understand why a low bridge is a sign to slow down and check, I've realised I won't get through a hand of of times but never close to doing anything like this maybe he was distracted 🤔
Asda own that bridge now.
When it comes to clearance, every little helps.
"Saving you money every day" yea, good luck telling your insurers that 😂
Most large companies underwrite their own insurance.
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Like a cat running into a mousetrap
Sat Nav: "Turn Right at the next Junction 😂😂😂😂
It's gonna cost someone, well thats Asda price!
Hope the driver is OK
About time these idiots were fully prosecuted for dangerous driving. It is only a matter of time before one of the dimwits causes a major train crash. Furthermore they should also be charged for all of the cost of the delays to the trains created by their incompetence.