Continue here.Between rock and hard place: Trucks and rail bridges
Nearly once a week, a delivery truck or tractor-trailer gets stuck under a railroad bridge somewhere in Monroe County. It can be a sight to see.
"It's crazy. It peels the top right back like a tin can," said Tim Jones, a State Farm insurance agent whose office is adjacent to a Perinton railroad bridge that bears visible scars of numerous truck collisions and wedge jobs.
"There was one time when a guy was driving by with a shipment of cars and he tore the top off of, I think, a (Toyota) Tundra. Twice I've seen cars completely destroyed on car carriers," Jones said.
In this day and age of ever-present data and pinpoint-accurate navigation systems, you'd think this wouldn't happen. But it does. In fact, GPS navigation systems may contribute to the problem, as we shall see.
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