A Ryder rental truck got stuck under a railroad bridge on Indiana Avenue on Monday.

Peter Mills is the President and CEO of the Indiana Rail Road Company. He says in this case, no damage was done to the bridge.

Mills says when trucks get stuck under bridges, law enforcement calls his company and then he suspends operation of the bridge until it has been inspected for damage.

He says he gets reports of this happening eight to 10 times a year, mostly in Bloomington.

“For us it happens more in the Bloomington area because we simply have more bridges over roadways in Bloomington than we would in in some of the smaller towns that we operate it.”

He says one common reason trucks don’t make it under a railway bridge is that signs warning about the bridge clearance go missing, so drivers don’t know if they have clearance room. Or, the road gets paved over multiple times, so area for clearance tightens.

Mills says raising bridge clearance would be too expensive, and it would make more sense to lower roadways to create clearance room.

He says there is no standard for height of railway bridges above roads.