The Inside Story – NBC Boston

The Inside Story – NBC Boston

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Seven years ago, Trillium Brewing Co. released a beer called Storrowed. Co-founder JC Tetreault says the seasonal IPA comes out every year around Labor Day as a public service announcement for students at local universities.

He showed a picture of a “storrowed truck” on the side of one of the company vehicles and admitted that “it’s a bit silly.”

“I mean, who puts a picture of a crashed truck on the side of their truck?” Tetreault said.

A Trillium Brewing Truck with an iterative representation of a "Died" Trillium beer truck on the side.


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A Trillium Brewing Company truck with an image of a Trillium “Storrowed” beer truck on the side.

Ironically, Trillium has become one of the latest “storrowing” statistics this year.

“In the end, you have to laugh at situations like this, because how cruel is karma in situations like this?” Tetreault pondered.

In May, a new Trillium truck driver relied on his GPS rather than his training. En route to the brewery’s Fort Point site, his delivery truck crashed into a low-clearance bridge near Massachusetts General Hospital.

“The first instinct is, ‘Oh my God, I hope nobody got hurt,'” Tetreault said. “And then when you find out nobody got hurt, the second instinct is, ‘Well, I hope the beer is OK.’ The beer and liquor in the truck were OK. We did lose 80 pounds of smoked chicken wings, after all.”

Trillium Brewing has a beer called Storrowed, in honor of Boston’s infamous traffic hazard. And then one of their trucks actually fell victim to Storrow Drive. “I thought the first text that came in was a joke,” said co-founder JC Tetreault, recounting what happened that day. Follow NBC10 Boston: https://instagram.com/nbc10boston https://tiktok.com/@nbc10boston https://facebook.com/NBC10Boston https://twitter.com/NBC10Boston

The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation told us that they are currently looking into solutions through navigation apps. For example, drivers of oversized vehicles could receive a sort of warning via their GPS about low clearance bridges, so that the frequency of these accidents tends in the opposite direction.

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