36000 lbs on a 3 ton rated wooden covered bridge
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I wouldn't say that.
Every road has a speed limit sign, yet people get speeding tickets. Bridges/underpasses frequently have height measurement signs yet large vehicles hit them. Here's a clue: Some people don't care or are too stubborn (or stupid) to heed a warning.
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Just before the driver started across, he probably rolled down the driver's window. It's a good thing since the truck somehow flipped upside down, and he managed to crawl out while underwater. At least he has half a brain.
The driver is an idiot. He'd fail the square peg round hole test.
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Too dumb to read the sign.
Too dumb to know that wooden bridges have a weight limit.
Never learned to care about weight limits.
What's nuts is that the front of the truck broke through first, then the entire rig did a "180 pitch"...landing on its back.
Had the truck only pitched 90 degrees, the cab would've been underwater as the load shifted forwards, likely crushing the cab and driver along with it.
I'm told a truck that heavy requires a commercial license. I wonder if the driver had such a license or, possibly, an available employee was grabbed and sent out on this delivery.
Time to break out the insurance policy.
Had the truck only pitched 90 degrees, the cab would've been underwater as the load shifted forwards, likely crushing the cab and driver along with it.
I'm told a truck that heavy requires a commercial license. I wonder if the driver had such a license or, possibly, an available employee was grabbed and sent out on this delivery.
Time to break out the insurance policy.
Emily’s bridge was half a mile from my house.
They’ve lowered the weight limit since I lived there. Most SUVs would exceed it.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/emilys-bridge
They’ve lowered the weight limit since I lived there. Most SUVs would exceed it.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/emilys-bridge
She speaks like a westerner some parts of her lilt but other times like mid east coast states. Interesting.
I suspect the front of the truck DIDN'T break through first.
It's pretty clear to me that when the rear axle where the majority of the loaded truck weight was located came onto the bridge deck, it broke through the deck, and fell back-end first into the river, coming to rest as we see in the pictures.
Yours is the correct take...must've been hairy to experience.
Fine, tow bill and insurance payout for the bridge repair or replacement.
I wonder if the driver asked someone to hold his beer.
Drove that bridge many times! Thanks for the memories!
That bridge should have been moved either to the left or right of that road by 100 feet or so and only animals and people walking allowed on it. There are plenty of inexpensive used military type steel bridges with weight ratings of 120,000 lbs or more, that could have replaced it.
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