Most over-height vehicles that strike a bridge weren't driven by someone ignoring the rules — they were driven by someone who genuinely didn't know they were too tall for the road ahead. A static clearance sign, posted a mile back, is easy to miss, misremember, or simply not apply to a load that was measured wrong at the yard. By the time a driver realizes there's a problem, the vehicle is committed.

Kestrel OHVD is built for one job: warn the driver, in real time, before the structure. Some agencies and carriers want more than a warning — a complete, verifiable record of why a vehicle was over-height. For that, Kestrel OHVD can be paired with, or the site can instead be built around, Falcon, HyPoint's LiDAR vehicle measurement system. Falcon captures a full 3D point cloud, precise dimensions, imagery, and lane and direction data for every vehicle, and feeds every event into the HyPoint web portal, so you can track activity at the sensor site and identify and verify the specific vehicle behind any over-height alert.

In one documented event, Falcon captured a flatbed hauling an end loader at highway speed. At a glance, the load looked like it cleared the posted restriction. Falcon's point cloud told a different story: the loader's arm had been left raised, roughly 2′ 6⅝″ above the deck, pushing the vehicle from an apparent 14′ 5⅛″ to an actual 16′ 11¾″. That extra height is what caused the strike — the vehicle went on to hit the overhead structure, damaging both the bridge and the equipment it was carrying.