Davenport’s Truck-Eating Bridge Had It’s First Breakfast Of 2026

Every growing problematic bridge needs it's morning nutrients.

As I was headed to work this morning, I found the least surprising problem along Brady: a decapitated truck that overestimated their clearance ability.

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I looked up Hogan and it's a trucking company (duh) based mostly in Missouri, with the closest Iowa branch in Waterloo. So likely not anyone local that would've known the bridge really does mean it's clearance.

As for when it happened this morning, probably around 7:00ish, since the road was still full of metal, lane-to-lane, but the truck was off the side of the road by the time I got there.

It actually seems this is the Brady/Harrison's bridge first snack of the year. It's hard to believe we made it until late June without that bridge claiming another truck but I can't find any evidence to the contrary.

Other local truck-eating bridges have had moments this year though. Earlier this year, over on Kirkwood, that bridge caught a U-Haul. The last Brady Street Bridge truck victims were last fall.

As we all know, this may be the first but it is likely not the only snack for the bridge for 2026. You can always see how much a driver overshot the truck's ability to clear the bridge by how peeled back the box truck's top metal is.

A reminder to all truck drivers coming to Davenport- the clearance really is 11' 8".

Trucking peak season is August-October, while holiday season is November-December. A lot of last year's incidents happened last fall and December. So buckle up. Literally.