Trailer-Tractor Plows Into Highway Exit Sign, Ripping Raised Bed Off Cab

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Trailer-Tractor Plows Into Highway Exit Sign, Ripping Raised Bed Off Cab

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Some people just aren’t early risers.

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when our minds aren’t running at 100 percent. However, some of us drive tractor-trailers for a living, where mistakes are never small. A 62-year-old Virginian is facing reckless driving charges after plowing a raised trailer bed into

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last Thursday morning on Interstate 64.

The ****** ripped the trailer off of the cab at around 9:35 a.m.,

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reports. The bed hit the sign ***** center, folding it in half. The trailer was left perched up on its rear, held aloft by the mangled gantry. Thankfully, no one was injured by the ******. The trailer was pulled off the sign by 11:00 a.m., but the highway wasn’t reopened until 4:45 p.m. that afternoon, and

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that traffic was only allowed on a single lane. The Virginia State Police stated the ****** is still under investigation.

This is nowhere close to the first instance of a raised bed slamming into an overhanging structure. Earlier this year, a dump truck driver drove a raised bed

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Over 15,000 low-clearance bridges are stuck per year on average, according to

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Each impact is definitely felt by the budget of every state DOT in the country.

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