Hauling fiber optic cable

That's gonna cost come money to replace.

 

lol wow! thats crazy

 

Depends, if the truck was on a highway, the cable has to be 16ft at the droop, if it's lower than that, the truck isn't responsible.

 

That's why fiber is buried whenever possible.

 

That doesn't look too residential as the blogger claimed. Shotyme is correct, but I heard 14'. It's part of the NEC. We had a driver get in trouble for going through a residential neighborhood. He took out all the cable lines. He got out of that part because they were hanging too low.

I thought fiber optics was buried too zebco. In related news, I read the other day the USA is way behind in the internet age. We ranked # 16. Fiber optics is 20 times faster than broadband and the US currently only uses 6% fiber optics. I think it was Findland was #1 with almost the whole country using fiber optics.

My niece works in the field. She just spent the past two years hooking up fiber optics to servers in Atlanta.

 

Yeah, we spent a huge amount of money to bury thousands of miles of fiber cable that we then never hooked up to anything. It's all outdated now so they'll never use it. We had some that came out in a phone box 1/4 mile from our old house. We tried to get it hooked up, even offered to pay for it and that's what the phone company told us.

On another note, how did that driver even do that?

 

Its 14' over ANY public roadway, residental or not its NOT the drivers fault, unless he pulled the poll down then somehow wraped the truck in the wires.....




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It's actually 15'. I used to haul tall loads all the time many over 14', took out several overhead wires, never paid for any! The companies that put the wires over the road know how high they are supposed to be, but don't do a very good job of achieving that height sometimes. If u knock them down with a legal height load it's on them, don't let them get away with trying to blame/charge you for it. I've argued with cops before about this, once they call dispatch to find out what the height is supposed to be, and measure your load they will tell the utility company it's their problem not the drivers.