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From: F Murtz on 1 Jul 2010 05:35
Another truck, a tunnel,sprinklers wiped out.
All day the radio has been on about it,news and talkback and all the
talk has been about driver and no one mentioned type of truck and load.
This tunnel is used by botany bay container traffic and my questioning
is as most containers are standard are there some trailers that are to
high? are there containers that are oversize that need low trailers.
I realize that it may be some load totally different.(not containers)
From: D Walford on 1 Jul 2010 06:19
On 1/07/2010 7:35 PM, F Murtz wrote:
> Another truck, a tunnel,sprinklers wiped out.
> All day the radio has been on about it,news and talkback and all the
> talk has been about driver and no one mentioned type of truck and load.
> This tunnel is used by botany bay container traffic and my questioning
> is as most containers are standard are there some trailers that are to
> high? are there containers that are oversize that need low trailers.
> I realize that it may be some load totally different.(not containers)

Standard max height for a truck is 4.3mtrs but you can get exemptions up
to 4.6mtrs but even that height shouldn't be a problem in any recently
built tunnel.
I'm no expert on containers but I doubt any containers would exceed
4.6mtrs, low loaders with excavators on board are often over height and
cattle trucks can be if an animal decided to stick its head up at the
wrong time.
If a truck was over height for whatever reason it is the drivers
responsibility to know that and to avoid places where the truck won't fit.


Daryl
From: Noddy on 1 Jul 2010 06:50

"F Murtz" <haggisz(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4c2c6156$1(a)dnews.tpgi.com.au...

> Another truck, a tunnel,sprinklers wiped out.
> All day the radio has been on about it,news and talkback and all the talk
> has been about driver and no one mentioned type of truck and load.
> This tunnel is used by botany bay container traffic and my questioning is
> as most containers are standard are there some trailers that are to high?
> are there containers that are oversize that need low trailers.
> I realize that it may be some load totally different.(not containers)

A standard shipping container is 8 foot high, but there are "hi-cube"
containers that are an extra foot taller. A hi-cube container on a standard
trailer will run about 4.4 metres tall on average, which around Melbourne
will see the driver hit most older bridges easily. There are also open top
containers for oddball freight like machinery and the like, and the height
of those is limited to the actual cargo inside the box.

From memory I think the standard permissible height without a permit is 4.3
metres, but 4.6 is possible after paying the appropriate fee.

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Regards,
Noddy.


From: hippo on 2 Jul 2010 09:34
D Walford wrote:
>
> On 1/07/2010 7:35 PM, F Murtz wrote:
> > Another truck, a tunnel,sprinklers wiped out.
> > All day the radio has been on about it,news and talkback and all the
> > talk has been about driver and no one mentioned type of truck and load.
> > This tunnel is used by botany bay container traffic and my questioning
> > is as most containers are standard are there some trailers that are to
> > high? are there containers that are oversize that need low trailers.
> > I realize that it may be some load totally different.(not containers)
>
> Standard max height for a truck is 4.3mtrs but you can get exemptions up
> to 4.6mtrs but even that height shouldn't be a problem in any recently
> built tunnel.
> I'm no expert on containers but I doubt any containers would exceed
> 4.6mtrs, low loaders with excavators on board are often over height and
> cattle trucks can be if an animal decided to stick its head up at the
> wrong time.
> If a truck was over height for whatever reason it is the drivers
> responsibility to know that and to avoid places where the truck won't fit.
>
>
> Daryl
>
>

Pffft! The truck fitted fine. The tunnel's still there isn't it? Those
sprinklers though; they're a different matter entirely! :)

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