“Always comes down to professionalism,” Campbell said. Jim Campbell with the Ontario Truck Driving School said he’s noticed an increase in bridge hitting incidents. “They should be taking a look down the street they want to take and see if it’s a no truck street and if there is a low-clearance sign.” “Drivers could tape something on the dash as a reminder to them of how high they are,” he said. “You are the captain of your ship so you should know all the things about it,” said Kevin Matthews, an instructor from Ayr who works for Mill Creek Motorfreight, a Kriska Transportation Group Company. (Dave Pettitt/CTV Kitchener)Īccording to a local truck driving instructor with ten years experience, knowing your load and your route is the most important thing he teaches his students. Conrad Vitalis of Brant County OPP.Ī person drives on a highway near Ayr, Ont. “Commercial vehicle operators who are towing heavy equipment, because that seems to be the consistent factor in these bridge strikes, you have to be really cognizant of the overall height of your vehicle once you have everything loaded on top," said Cst. Police responded to the collision at the North Park Road bridge just before 3 p.m. On Wednesday, a section of Highway 403 in Brantford was closed for several hours after a tow truck pulling heavy equipment struck an overpass bridge. In 2020 a transport truck got wedged under the same bridge causing traffic to be backed up for hours. “Three or four times in the year there's a truck stuck under it at some point,” Andrew Williams said.Ī truck is seen stuck under a rail bridge in Kitchener on Feb. He described it as a loud crunch, when a truck failed to get under the Park Street rail bridge.
The store manager at Swanson’s Home Hardware in Kitchener said he heard the latest crash in front of his store on Monday. There has been a number local of incidents where trucks have hit bridges within the span of just over a week and it is causing concerns for driving instructors, community members and police.
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