http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/09/29/tanker-truck-causes-bridge-to-collapse-in-greene-county/
Maybe fixable, but highlights the ever-increasing possibility of this happening thanks to GPS. I guarantee you it's GPS.
The max weight that truck was able to hold is 55,000 lbs. GPS is what i blame for it as well, using a car GPS will do that...a truck GPS is about 260 bucks, i bought one so i would not get led down low clearance routes.
How did they get the truck off of the bridge?
Quote from: Laura on October 01, 2014, 04:52:34 PM
How did they get the truck off of the bridge?
saw through a few more beams ...
Quote from: agentsteel53 on October 01, 2014, 04:57:23 PM
Quote from: Laura on October 01, 2014, 04:52:34 PM
How did they get the truck off of the bridge?
saw through a few more beams ...
No, you dump the load, and using beams you drive it off slowly and carefully. Think large i beams the size of a truck tire.
4 tons? I wonder how full he was. 4 tons of water alone is only a thousand gallons. That truck probably holds four times that.
I drove a fuel truck about that size, 4500 gal is about average for a truck that size.
I concur with the GPS comments. Something similar happened on the rural county road by my house last year. There wasn't any bridge to destroy but an oversized loaded truck tried to come thru and casued a lot of collateral damage- broken tree limbs, destroyed mail boxes and one shed next to the road. If the fool had gone another mile he would have come upon a bridge too narrow to cross and no way to turn around. Damned GPS units show a clearly marked load zoned county road as a direct link between State highways. :banghead:
Quote from: SquonkHunter on October 04, 2014, 08:00:10 PM
I concur with the GPS comments. Something similar happened on the rural county road by my house last year. There wasn't any bridge to destroy but an oversized loaded truck tried to come thru and casued a lot of collateral damage- broken tree limbs, destroyed mail boxes and one shed next to the road. If the fool had gone another mile he would have come upon a bridge too narrow to cross and no way to turn around. Damned GPS units show a clearly marked load zoned county road as a direct link between State highways. :banghead:
Problem is that truck units should know that weight limit, a car one only knows where cars should go
Reading the comments on that article make me fear the future of civilization.
If i even approach a road that has a low weight limit my GPS will alert me.
Quote from: Sonic99 on October 06, 2014, 01:09:49 AM
Reading the comments on that article make me fear the future of civilization.
Where is the comment section? I don't see it on that page. (I hate how a lot of sites now are hiding the comment section, because I hate having to dig around for it.)
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Quote from: Sonic99 on October 06, 2014, 01:09:49 AM
Reading the comments on that article make me fear the future of civilization.
I feel that way about the comments under pretty much every article.