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Can we please take a second and appreciate how Ozzy googled Google to google the bridge?

It's since been raised to 12' 4" (3.76m) and there are a lot fewer hits, but still some. One of its nicknames is "The Penske Peeler."

They've modified the bridge. It's at 12 ftv4 now. But the nickname for the bridge is the "can opener". BTW, Penske, Ryder, U Haul and some others of these box trucks are rentals for people self moving. The bridge is in Durham North Carolina. It's not the only truck eater. Theres one in Enid Oklahoma that they've actually painted a sharks upper jaw on it. Hilarious.

I'm actually a truck driver in North Carolina. I saw a distinct lack of tractor trailers rolling through there. And I think the issue is that there really isn't special a license or training that goes into driving a box truck, unless it has air brakes. People driving those vehicles don't necessarily think about height. Though I did overhear a lady talking to a new employee(some delivery service) and she flat out states that he needed to pay close attention to height signs.

Haha! This is in Durham, North Carolina. I used to live in an apartment complex with a clear view to the bridge and it was hilarious to watch trucks get stuck on the bridge each week. You really don't realize that it's that low unless you're in a huge truck, but yeah, great stuff

Signs: "YOUR SHIT IS TOO TALL, TURN AND GO AROUND." Drivers of tall trucks: "Hm. I wonder who that is for."

In 2019 they raised the trestle and surrounding track buy 8 inches (now 12' 4") but it still gets hit fairly regularly by taller trucks.

There is an 11’8” railroad bridge near where I live in Pennsylvania. It’s in Cressona. Several trucks have plowed into the bridge now. There are flashing lights,the bridge is painted green, hanging objects before the bridge that you hit before the bridge in a attempt to make people not hit the bridge.

they raised the bridge like 7 inches or something (they had to raise the railroad tracks to do it), there are apparently warnings down the street for a couple blocks saying trucks must turn, and it still opens trucks like sardines on the reg

Can you imagine the sign at Pensky saying " days without hitting the can opener."

I live near this bridge. You can't imagine how many signs and warnings there are- even one that flashes and warns you if you're over the height limit. No luck. Some people are determined to visit DF.

When I worked at U-Haul I would always try to get customers to take the additional insurance as it would fully cover damage like this. The standard answer was “I don’t need it because I have my own insurance.” It was always the ones who didn’t take it that would peel the tops off like a can of sardines, then be baffled when their auto insurance told them they wouldn’t cover it.

I worked for Penske for 2 years, and always laughed when people roofed the trucks. First, the clearance height is on stickers EVERYWHERE in these trucks. On the dash? Yep. Able to be seen in each rear view mirror? You got it. Also, if I remember correctly, the normal insurance offered by Penske very clearly does not cover roof damage. It made the job very interesting sometimes.

I find this bridge mesmerizing. There's an optical sensor that triggers the sign telling the drivers they won't fit if the beam is interrupted, there's no margin or ambiguity but somehow, so many people seem to think if they only drive either slow or fast enough they won't be the height that they are :|

"Penske fuck off" made me lol! There should be a big sticker in each of the cabs saying "If you see the 11 foot 8 bridge then stop! Please stop!" 😂

Actually, the rental agreement for the local Penske and other truck rental businesses know about the bridge and warn the renters that if they damage the truck on that bridge, insurance will not cover it and the renter will be personally and fully liabile. They do not offer any insurance to renters specifically for that bridge. You can get full-coverage insurance for a rented truck and still, if you hit that bridge, insurance won't cover it.

As a former truck driver, I can honestly say that between the signs, and the GIANT LIT UP SIGN, that the state did all it could to warn drivers about the clearance. Most of those trucks are rentals, which means they are driven by people who are not familiar with such things. Like...college students.

Knew the subject of this just from the video title. That bridge is a dead set legend. My favourite part is that the bridge has actually been raised and it still catches new victims on a regular basis. At this point the blame is entirely on the drivers of the trucks. It is incredibly well signed, there are automated signs that indicate you will not fit and every one driving a truck should know the clearance of their vehicle. If they try to drive it under something too low for it to fit, that's entirely their own fault. I have to believe that Penske has a deal going with their insurance and a local truck body place for the idiots that rent their vehicles and then ignore all warning signs leading up to this masterpiece of design. Long live the mighty Can Opener. May it keep us entertained for many years to come, coz stupid people sure as fuck aren't going away anytime soon.

"The Can Opener"...one of my favorite go-to videos.

Penske’s entire budget must be coming from their insurance provider.

I drive box trucks for a living and I can't get over how fast a lot of those bastards are going. Also: Penske is a leasing/rental company. Most of those are driven by renters and non-professionals.

Let's give props to the engineer who designed and built that protective overhead bar. That thing took a beating and never seemed to budge!

Did you notice the electric board screaming at the vehicles that were "OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN"?

The best part is, this happens so frequently that insurance companies have exclusion waivers in their policies, so if you actually do this, it is NOT covered by insurance!

I remember working in London years ago and getting stuck in traffic, when I went to investigate the hold up was due to a truck being stuck under a bridge. Properly wedged, couldn't move forward or backward. When a traffic cop finally showed up to sort the traffic out he spoke to the driver and said, "So you got your truck stuck?" And I shit you not, the driver just fired straight back; " Nope, I was delivering this bridge and I've run out of fuel"

YES. I've been an acolyte of 11 foot 8 for many years. I make a pilgrimage back to the site about every 6 months or so to see the crashes. What makes it even worse is that over the years they've totally redesigned the bridge, added multiple giant warning signs and lights, actually dug it out so that the clearance isn't actually 11 foot 8 anymore, and STILL it mashes trucks that are too stupid to pay attention to what they're doing.

Years ago we had a wreck at that bridge not because we did not fit but because hubby slowed down in the UHaul and a lady passed and cut back into his fender. It is one way and the rental company is around the corner and does not give any warnings. 😊

Its weirdly satisfying to have the top of the truck perfectly peeled off

can we all just take a moment to admire the engineering & construction of this bridge? just keeps taking hit after hit, amazing!

Best part about the 11'8" bridge is that despite being raised, the rail line above it cannot be altered any further. When discussing if it's possible to lower the road to perhaps compensate for this restriction, it hits into sewage and water lines. Literally there is nothing they can do short of completely replacing it or closing that roadway. As for Penske and multiple other box trucks,. they have rentals nearby and they give a ton of warnings on where they cannot go and the height. Suffice to say, with all the visual and auditory warnings along with it being long standing information, there is little more that can be done.

Love your themed song mixed with the trucks smashing the overpass 😢😂 So much scrap metal...

this reminds me of the bayswater bridge here in perth, its a similar thing where trucks get stuck all the time. massive signs showing the height. there is a website that counts and records how many days since the last incident.

I laughed so hard when you ranted about Pensky and Ryder. Those aren't employees driving. Those 2 companies rent out trucks to people who are moving stuff. The drivers are not related to the companies at all. They are like U-Haul. I laughed so hard every time you are like, "What's wrong with that company. They gotta be out of business by now." LOL

I've driven under this bridge many times in Durham, NC. The bridge is famously known as "the can opener." More hilarious is they raised it, and it's still to short. 😂

This bridge is also nicknamed "The Can Opener" the way it peels the top of those trucks. Penske, Ryder, Enterprise are all rental companies. I occasionally drive a dock height Ryder rental and it stands at 13' 6".

I ❤️ 11' 8" Bridge. (I also feel that reading comprehension is an underrated skill.)

What I find most interesting in this video...already familiar with this super well-built bridge...is how Ozzy googled Google to google the bridge. I love these reviews!!

the real question, the big question that's actually being gradually answered by this bridge, is how many warning signs does something actually need?

There's a bridge in Enid, Oklahoma that's only 11'4". It has shark teeth painted on both sides. I duck when I drive under it in my small pickup truck. It's not on the highway and that road has little traffic so I'm not sure there's a lot of footage of trucks eaten by the "shark".

I just love the big boom sound when a truck smashes into it, makes me laugh

One day in 2019 before the pandemic, I was in an airport with a 6 hour layover. I discovered Ozzy Man Reviews that day and laughed the entire 6 hours afterwards.

As a truck driver I adore that bridge they have added so many safety features to prevent people from hitting, even adjusted the height to 12'4'' and nope people still hit it.

That was hilarious af. I live a couple hours from the bridge and we hear stories often enough to know that you don’t pick a fight with 11foot8!!

It looks like a game where some trucks get as much speed as possible to try make it through😂😂🍺🍺

Penske need a mounted sign on all their dashboards that say 'DONT DRIVE UNDER THE F-ING BRIDGE!'

When I was a little kid, I went to kindergarten in North Carolina. There was a bridge just past the school on the main highway that also would catch semis. Signs be damned, it would catch about one truck a week. As a 4 year old, I loved seeing the trucks under there, didn't understand any of the downsides.

God damn, that bridge is like the Rambo of truck destruction 😳 😆 🤣 😂 On the bright side, now we know how they make aluminum foil.

The bridge was nicknamed the "Can opener" for a reason.

The Can Opener! I know there's less "accidents" (pronounced idiots) since they increased clearance but the fact that people still hit it is amazing. As I understood it insurance companies in the area specifically do not cover the damages on those rental trucks. The renters are fully on the hook for all repairs.

Some non-US viewers might not know that Penske, Ryder and Budget are rental companies. The drivers in those cases might not have any professional level training and even those who do will often be driving that particular vehicle for the first time.

Before raising the bridge the rail company installed a free standing iron cutting edge to reduce impact which is why it cuts like a can opener

“The sign said clearance to the twelve-foot line, but the chickens was stacked to thirteen-nine…” 😱 -from “Wolf Creek Pass”, by C.W. McCall

Some call that the "Can Opener Bridge." They supposedly raised the clearance from 11'8" to 12' a couple years ago. Interesting that drivers of rental trucks and other tall vehicles don't familiarize themselves with their vehicle's clearance requirements, and then READ THE FREAKING SIGNS ON THE BRIDGE that state what the max clearance is. Bridge must shake its head every day at the stupidity on display.

This bridge gets a lot of attention for being 11' 8". Meanwhile in Boston, we have 10' 0", 10' 6", and 11' 0" clearances on Storrow Drive, a major arterial road that gets you in and out of the city. Boston is a big college town, so every year a bunch of U-Hauls get shitmixed by students moving in and out of the city. It's sometimes a daily occurance. Even worse, it's not an intersection like this, it's basically a highway with a concrete center median. If you fuck up but catch yourself before you crash, you have to exit in reverse to the nearest ramp. There's no shoulder.

We have a truck killer here in Spokane, Washington. We laugh and shake our heads. IT IS POSTED. And, now, GPS. 😂

I'll be the one to say that song is absolutely a hit in my book. I love it, very well done

The real legend here: the I-beam can opener that doesn’t even shrug at any truck that comes it’s way!

Every town needs an 11' 8" Edit: He Googled Google from the Google page, clicked Google and then Googled his search.

Theres an even shorter bridge in a tiny town called Bailey, North Carolina. It's only 8' 6"! I'm from Eastern North Carolina and not far from that town. I've been under that bridge numerous times. It's so small most pick up trucks can't even go under it.

For those of you that do not know this bridge is also called "the can opener bridge" it is world famous because it has been raised twice people still hit it even with all the signs

Great video. Just to let you know, none of the trucks are actually hitting the bridge. They are hitting a CPB (collision protection beam) which is about a metre in front of the bridge. It’s been put there purposefully to prevent trucks hitting the bridge, and as you can see it was well worth the money as it’s doing it’s job well! Keep up the good work mate

I love how the sign is flashing “Over Height Must Turn” and they proceed to hit it at ramming speed! 🤪

As far as I remember there's a sign a ways up the road that warns about the bridge and gives you an alternate route. Everyone who crashes into it ignored the sign.

I bet this bridge made Penske write a clause into their rental agreements. "If damage is done to the vehicle because of the low bridge at INSERT ADDRESS HERE, then the undersigned agrees to cover all damages out of pocket."

Penske is like that annoying drunk dude that keeps telling he can break a glass bottle on his head but just ends up shitmixed after fourteen tries

Love the 11'8" bridge! There's a kind of opposite to that on a channel called BenGregers. It's a river ford called Rufford Mill near Ollerton in Nottinghamshire over here in the UK which kills cars by drowning them

the camping trailers are kinda funny because it's like "no air conditioning for you"

Sadly, they raised that bridge a few years back - and STILL it “opens cans”.

At 6:50, that’s my brother’s business’ truck. I used to work pretty much across the street and could hear when the trucks hit the bridge guard. There is another bridge just a couple hundred yards away that also catches lots of trucks. The sewer lines under the road were a hundred or so years old and would have been very expensive to retrofit. The bridge was was raised (and the road MAY have been lowered during subsequent repaving) in 2016-17 but even with the extra 8” and extra signage, it still catches some trucks.

We've got one in our town that's a foot shorter. Happens a lot. We're a college and university town too, so we get a lot of U-Haul's getting stuck or can opened under it during the spring and fall. There is tons of signage now with big bright flashing lights and big yellow height signs all over it and in front of it. Still doesn't stop people from driving head long into it though.

I drive under this bridge most days of the week. It’s been lowered something like 8 inches since these videos were made but it still eats trucks from time to time. About two years ago my buddy who lives in a different part of town came home from the grocery and there was an 18 wheeler in his neighborhood that had taken a curve a little too wide on his suburban street and had fallen over to about 45° in a ditch. It took some massive tow truck or crane thing two hours to get it out. Later that same day my friend was running errands near the 11 foot eight Bridge and the exact same dude had run that 18 wheeler full on into the bridge. Very bad day for that fella.

Once in NY I had to have the traffic stopped so I could turn around a bridge that was 10 feet and I'm at 13.6. I was saved, thank you to the great drivers that helped

They actually raised this bridge 8" I believe, but, there are trucks out there that still don't clear. Penske is a rental company, so many of the people driving these trucks are not used to driving tall vehicles.

I would love to see an interview with someone at Penske about their insurance and financial situation.

I live near here. The issue is there is a rental truck company in the area that tells people not to turn right out of their lot because of the bridge being too low. Apparently humans have short attention spans.

It's now the 12' 4" bridge. They raised it 8 inches a while back, which was the highest they could raise the bridge without having to also raise the nearest level crossings. For those who prefer metric, it was 355 cm before, and is 376 cm now.

There not actually hitting the bridge at first , it's a big "I" beam to protect the bridge. Still love the nickname "the can opener " Scrappers must love it!

Now I'm a fan of Ginzu ATSKs. EXCELLENT song choice.

The Swimming pool semi hit so hard it shook the building where the camera is mounted. 4:33 LOL

Two legends in one video! Ozzy man and the 11'8" bridge! Loved it!

I saw a Penske truck on the road this morning and started laughing hysterically. Thanks for this laugh.

Love the sign the flashes above where people can see it. Put that thing at street level.

They even put in an illuminated sign warning you that you are overheight and the Muppets still try and get through it...

That bridge is about 20 minutes from me in Durham, NC. They raised it a little while ago, it's now 12'4" and still eating trucks, lol.

Durham's notorious 11'8" can-opener bridge is now the 11'8"+8" can-opener bridge. It's still reliably giving unobservant drivers a little off the top.

Penske and the Bridge are like the Pinky and the Brain of the transportation universe.

Scoreboard ---------- Penske - 13 Ryder - 5 Budget - 2 Unmarked - 15 RV's/Busses - 4 Other(marked but not on list, or I couldn't tell) - 13 And 1 Tow Truck

Thanks again Ozzy for using our song. I could't help but laugh at the trucks entering destination f! Keep the editor on the pay roll, the person did a great job!

fun fact, all the truck rental places in the area "Ryder, penske, etc etc" ALL warn people renting their trucks that they do NOT fit under that bride. And people still do it. Also, the extra insurance does not protect from running into that bridge, the driver's insurance has to cover it.

You gotta love the Penske crash at 5:11, the bloke in the crosswalk is literally so over these crashes that he barely reacts.

Spilled my drink seeing him commenting while sitting in the folding chair 🤣

Here in the land of low bridges, Chicago, this happens all the time. I did see a car hauler speeding down the street toward a bridge. Two of the cars scraped off ending up upside down in the street. Classic. Many of these railroad bridges here date from 1900 or earlier.

You can tell the locals who automatically hang back when a truck is going through, they just know xD

At some point, you'd think Penske would put a warning on the rental agreement, or something, Geebus.

This makes me chuckle every time I watch it 🤣🤣

"It's like a cheese grater" Fun fact: the local nickname for this bridge in the area is "The Can Opener".

Had a low bridge like that in Griffin Georgia. About half a block away over the road hung a sign that read "if you hit this sign, you will hit that bridge". It seemed to work. The bridge got removed a few years back.

They could definitely do a better job with the signs. I know there’s the lit sign on the bridge saying to turn, but, on the side of the road, it’s just the height. Given how often this happens, they should have several signs - that make it clear that regular trucks can’t make it under the bridge.

"Destination fucked" gets me every time 😅😅😂😂🏆