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State Police remind college students and their parents to keep their damn rental trucks off the river roads
By adamg on Tue, 05/12/2015 - 12:52pm
You wouldn't think it would need to be said, but apparently it does:
Motorists driving trucks, including box and rental trucks, are urged to check the height restrictions along their planned route and make route adjustments as necessary. Specifically, truck drivers on Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, and Memorial Drive are urged to pay attention to all relevant signs regarding bridge height.
This precaution is especially relevant in Spring, when Boston’s many college students are moving out of their school-year living quarters, and in the Fall, when they move back in.
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it is wise
whenever you see a rental truck of any sort, to not drive anywhere near it, i have learned
If you see one on Storrow ...
you need to pass it, I guess ...
So ...
are we starting the pool now?
(where, when, and what by)
We may already have a winner
It wasn't a Storrowing, but that Bolt Bus BBQ and Blast yesterday on the Pike yesterday rush hour sure qualifies for honorable mention.
And special kudos to WBZ radio and their helicopter guy, for mentioning every 10 mins that there was a bus on fire on the Pike, without telling us where on the Pike. That was some fine reporting from the League of the Obvious.
Good idea
However, it seems that most of the Storrowings in a given year are from GPS-addled commercial truck drivers, rather than student/parent piloted rentals.
Uhub has reported many
Uhub has reported many student Uhaul Storrowings. Happens twice yearly... check previous posts. All Bostonians are familiar with this. Consider yourself lucky you're not!
For
For your viewing pleasure.
Actually, not really
I looked through that roster. There were only three in the last three years that qualified (short-term rental without professional driver in the appropriate time windows). Two of those stopped short of impact. The rest were professional delivery and/or way out of the time window. The pros outnumbered the students about 10:1. Students don't move using ISO containers.
I mean, Granite City? Really?
A lot of buses, too, including the very severe Calvary Coach incident.
So, we are all familiar with it, yes ... I even prevented one in 1986 by slowing an 18-wheeler to 10 mph on the "reverse curve" ... but the student part seems to be fading into legend.
"I prevented a Storrowing"
Chick Forrest Gump. Amazing. Keep doing you, Swirly.
The trucker was really angry
I saw him in my rear view mirror and started dropping speed. He was laying on his horn, screaming out the window and riding my bumper close enough that I could see his Georgia plates.. At least that kept him from roaring around me as I dropped speed.
Until we took the turn where you can see the bridge, that is.
You've driven that stretch. You explain how a loaded big rig doing 35 mph would have been able to stop in time.
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Cute picture, but...
...I guess you've never driven that stretch, have you?
Height of lowest bridge on
Height of lowest bridge on Storrow and on Memorial, s.v.p. ?
Six inches shorter
Than the first truck of the season!
lol nice
lol nice