Freeing a stuck truck
July 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm in The Dickinson Press
A $20 permit could have prevented the damage caused by a New Town trucking company hauling a 500-barrel saltwater tank, shown Tuesday, on the Interstate 94 South Heart exit, said Sgt. Dan Haugen of the North Dakota Highway Patrol. Continue Reading
How does a permit stop him from hitting the overpass?
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My understanding is when they get the oversized permit, the DOT gives them a suggested route to avoid the areas where the height becomes an issue.
Until the State of ND starts hammering the trucking companies with steep fines and suspending CDL licenses from the drivers, this won’t stop. Seems foolish to me that someone did not get a $20 permit and then does $50,000 in damage. Hopefully the trucking company’s insurnace pays the damage and not the State of ND (meaning the taxpayer).
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Where my husband works, if they are hauling an oversize load, they CANNOT take the interstate as the clearances are not high enough. Whenver they get a permit for each load, the DOT always tells them to take alternate roads. They have had to travel from Dickinson to western Montana on back roads many times. A few times an individual will be decide to haul their own load and not heed the warning. And the overpasses and bin get damaged.
And it is the hauling company that is responsible for the damages, not the state.
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I understand getting the permit thing…the article just stated it funny…like if he had a piece of paper this would not have happened. I was being facetious.
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