thomaswhitman
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- Martinsburg, WV USA
Thank you for the join up. Curious about the telephone, TV cable, and electrical power supply lines with respect to their minimum required height above the public roadways and highways. We had an incident in Virginia with a broken Verizon telephone line. The on scene police officer measured our load height at 15, 2". This is a maintained and divided state highway. Oddly enough we were transporting a Verizon boom truck. This particular boom joint faced forward and had a smooth diameter of 12". Of course any nick in the boom knuckle could have snagged the wire and broke it. The wire was somewhat obscured and not noticed by the operator..
My stand is the wire was hung lower than the allowance and it being July, warmer temperature could have caused additional sag in the run. We were over height but permitted for this application. Now, Verizon requests nearly $3000 for repairs so I'm doing homework on where we might stand for liability. Obviously the offending wire must have been some unknown height but lower than 15' 2". Couple of sage friends jokingly say add it to the next Verizon tow bill. The bill is not the problem. The real problem is if the carrier rolls over and pays off the Verizon claim, well will have a hit on our now un-blemished Loss-Run history. Thanks for your time. R/Tom
My stand is the wire was hung lower than the allowance and it being July, warmer temperature could have caused additional sag in the run. We were over height but permitted for this application. Now, Verizon requests nearly $3000 for repairs so I'm doing homework on where we might stand for liability. Obviously the offending wire must have been some unknown height but lower than 15' 2". Couple of sage friends jokingly say add it to the next Verizon tow bill. The bill is not the problem. The real problem is if the carrier rolls over and pays off the Verizon claim, well will have a hit on our now un-blemished Loss-Run history. Thanks for your time. R/Tom
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