COWBELLS AND TRUCKS.

COWBELLS AND TRUCKS. Kids, here comes another “back in the day” post. Over forty years ago, I was playing tennis on courts south of the Charles River in Cambridge. I heard an impressive crash and after the tennis I saw something impressive. A truck had tried to go under the bridge on Storrow Drive. I hadn’t realized that when a truck did that, the top of the truck would peel off and roll up like the lid of a sardine can. This article indicates that this is still a major problem. There is a truck-bridge collision every three weeks on average. Truck drivers are ignoring the signs warning them about the low bridges. In the eighties, cowbells were chained to “LOW CLEARANCE” signs to get the attention of truckers. The cowbells were apparently successful, but now they have rusted and lost their clappers. Authorities are considering replacing and refurbishing the cowbells.