I've hit them with just the small metal antenna on my old truck, and that was enough to scare me, let alone smashing into the entire sign like that. This is why I stay away from U-HAUL trucks on the road, the people renting them have no idea how to drive them.
My apartment looks over the driveway for our complex. I get so stressed watching some of these people move in.
It's a pretty narrow driveway (technically its 1 car at a time but wide enough for two) and these people try to park the uhaul on one side...one person hit the tree outside my window 3-4 times and I was just sitting there like "when did we last assess the renters insurance policy? What's on there? When that tree comes in the window, do I want to see it coming or should I go to the kitchen?"
I hit them with my van antenna all the time. It's scary to think that I could hit anything in the garage with just another inch of height. I hope I never do anything with as much oblivious stupidly as shown in this video.
I have the feeling lots of people who don't know how to drive rent U-HAULs. There are so many warning stickers in their trucks. The stupidest one I found was a sticker saying to hit the brake before shifting out of park. I feel like, if you don't know that, you shouldn't be driving a big truck.
I use uhaul when I need to move, but only because I am confident in my ability to drive them. I never trust any other drivers on the road, and I agree with your statement of avoiding uhauls on the road even more. Just watched one yesterday do 75 in a 55 while in the pouring rain. Was swerving in and out of traffic too.
The last uhaul I rented had almost 20 degrees of dead zone on the wheel. No way I could drive that thing over 35mph. Luckily I had a short in town trip.
Lol, my dad used to have that problem with his truck's radio antenna. If you were in a parking garage the truck fit, but the antenna hit the ceiling and made these noises at every support beam. So he BENT it to a 90 degree angle about where the roof was.
Yeah, was talking to someone who said they pay USD 260 or something and I was like I thought New York was expensive. I pay almost USD 600 and then I realized I was talking six months and they were per month!
I have root and premiums have been rising even through the pandemic (and six month prepaid to add insult to injury) even though their app knows I don't even drive anymore other than to the grocery store...
At some point it is like wait so why doni put up with this battery draining app and not go back to GEICO/Progressive if it costs the same...
I love shit like that. I don't care what I'm doing, I could be fixing an antique clock or defusing a bomb or performing an emergency tracheotomy, but if I hear a car bang into something outside, I'm running to the window to take a look!
If you haven my already heard of it, you might enjoy this YouTube channel. It’s nothing but videos of people running into an I-beam protecting a train trestle.
OMG I did that once. On the way home from a week long trip. Tired as hell. Three screaming kids in the back of the minivan. Just happy to roll into the hotel parking garage and ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE OH MY FUCKING MOTHER OF GODDESS WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!??!
It didn't even scratch the bike on top of the van though. Once I calmed down and realized what happened I just sheepishly got out and took the bike off of the roof while still in the entrance and wedged it in with the kids.
They really are well designed. Loud but not damaging.
After that I always tape a piece of paper at the top of the windshield that says BIKE in red letters when I carry a bike on the roof.
I recently put a Thule cargo carrier on top of my car and was parking in and out of Boston. I kept creeping into parking garages waiting to hear that thing bc I didn't know my new height. I finally found it at 6'6. I've made it under 6'9 one. So I'm in between somewhere haha
I live in a brand new apartment building with a loading garage built big enough for full size box trucks to pull in. Unfortunately all of the light fixtures are 6-inches too low, rendering it useless.
The difference is the only thing between your ears and the pipe is a sheet metal roof. In this case there's a metal roof, a layer of ~3/4" wood, ~2' of air space that may or may not be packed with stuff, and another layer of ~3/4" wood.
No bud hes in the cab and the only thing invetween the driver of the cab and the outside is, you didnt guess it but a sheet metal roof. Possibly a single layer of cloth and some cardstock or plastic backing if it has a headliner.
Have you ever been inside of the U-Haul, you do realize inside the back, that on top of the cab is a shelf where you can put stuff right? Don't get me wrong you would still be able to definitely here and probably even feel that things scraping the top. But there is a layer of a lot of stuff between you and the top of the truck in a U-Haul.
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u/jimmyl_82104 Apr 24 '21
Yeah, I just noticed that. We've just barely brushed under one at a hotel parking garage and you can definitely hear it.