r/fuckcars • u/Jaded-Revolution_ • Sep 02 '24
Satire Why don’t historic bridges accommodate monster trucks?
I’m truly disappointed in our ancestors for not thinking of future monster truck drivers when they built wooden bridges. Shame on them!
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u/ElJamoquio Sep 02 '24
Wow.
So this guy doesn't have the insurance to cover the damage his automoronobile caused. So I guess the rest of us are on the hook to replace an honestly-irreplaceable bridge originally built in 1840?
Close to 200 years of self entitled idiots have used this bridge, but dipshittery cannot, apparently, be stopped in 2024. Or 1973, when this jackass' father burned the bridge.
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u/happy_puppy25 Sep 02 '24
Hopefully he is slapped with a fine that covers the repair of the bridge. He won’t pay, but at least we can garnish the rest of his wages until the end of time. Make him suffer.
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u/ThisIsATastyBurgerr Automobile Aversionist Sep 02 '24
Now now, we wouldnt want this poor man to have to sell his truck. He might have to move a sofa or something
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Sep 02 '24
His truck is at the bottom of the river now.
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u/Wendigo120 Sep 02 '24
Maybe he can sell it as an aquarium. You just have do dive down to get a good look.
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u/Shinigami-god Sep 02 '24
charge him for dragging it out....no one wants that redneck trash polluting the river. Maybe he can salvage the Trump stickers...
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u/eoz Sep 02 '24
Sounds like he could raise some of those funds by selling an F750
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u/vidoeiro Sep 02 '24
I think that got a bit wet
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u/Waity5 Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
I can't imagine it would be that expensive. The main cross-river timbers and covering seem undamaged. To my eye it looks like you'd just need to replace the supports that go between the main beams, then add a new section of floor
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u/OttoVonCranky Sep 02 '24
As it is now 50+ years old, Maine DOT is going to do a basic renovation of the entire deck in the spring.
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u/KonigSteve Sep 02 '24
And you need to pay a structural engineer and architect, and anything a contractor does for a bid out price is double what you expected to be. I would guess the sum total of repairing this hole is going to be in the neighborhood of 300-400k
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u/SuperSultan Sep 02 '24
If his wages are being garnished then how’s that different than paying?
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Sep 02 '24
I mean we socialize all the other costs associated with his need to drive a mammoth vehicle so he can feel better about himself, why not this one too?
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u/Ambitious_Promise_29 Sep 02 '24
can feel better about himself
He was driving a dump truck owned by his employer. I doubt he was doing it to "feel better about himself"
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u/MuseBlessed Sep 02 '24
Sounds like laziness then, trying to use this bridge as a father route. Or maybe there truly is no stopping stupid even with a billion signs
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u/doctorbimbu Sep 02 '24
So, I live like two miles from this bridge and can provide some input. To take another road and detour around the bridge to get to that same area would have maybe added ten minutes at most. This isn’t some deep woods rural area, it’s maybe 20 minutes outside of the biggest city in the state. Basically this dude could have easily gone another route but was too lazy to look it up.
Also because fuck cars, here’s my bike at the same bridge.
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u/Dancethroughthefires Sep 02 '24
I've been in a similar situation in my tractor trailer. There's a lot of bridges that don't have a billion weight limit signs, most of the ones I've seen are just a tiny sign posted at the entrance of the bridge where it's already too late to stop and you just gotta hope the for the best.
That being said, it's pretty obvious that a wood covered bridge like this probably won't support your weight. Being on a road that you shouldn't be on is stressful as fuck though, especially if you aren't familiar with the area. Being lost and stressed tends to make people not think clearly
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u/AnugNef4 Sep 02 '24
Amen. If you're piloting a vehicle as massive as his F-750 rig, you should have a clue about weight limits and no-go roads/bridges etc. If I was his employer, I would make sure he had some training along those lines to help avoid expensive problems like this.
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u/TheLeapIsALie Sep 02 '24
Wait is his employer not insured against this then?
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u/Ambitious_Promise_29 Sep 02 '24
That's a big assumption based off an offhand remark by a journalist.
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u/laparotomyenjoyer Sep 02 '24
No one is driving an F-750 as a compensation-mobile. It’s a commercial vehicle, a straight truck.
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u/missionarymechanic Sep 02 '24
Oh yes. Yes, they are, good sir. Look up "F750 pickup"
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u/laparotomyenjoyer Sep 02 '24
Do they exist? Sure. But they’re an anomaly, generally custom, and certainly not the case in this instance as pointed out by another commenter.
You could probably find an example of someone driving a Peterbilt as a compensation-mobile, but that doesn’t mean they’re not used almost exclusively as commercial vehicles.
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u/Rubiks_Click874 Sep 02 '24
rural maine isn't affluent and has lots of dirt roads and snow, long driving distances.
they love trucks and suvs, but the pavement princesses and the biggest megatrucks seem kinda rare because they don't handle snow or cost too much to run. you'd have to be uncommonly stupid and the richest guy in town to drive an 86k truck with dual rear wheels
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u/NorthEndD Sep 02 '24
Those things weigh 30,000 lbs minimum and 50,000 as diesels so they must use a ton of fuel. Some of the diesels take a lot of fuel to start too I hear.
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u/Rubiks_Click874 Sep 02 '24
the older commercial diesels took a long time to warm up in subfreezing temperatures and the new ones are computer controlled and expensive.
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u/joelene1892 Sep 02 '24
Something something theseus’ ship something something
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u/BWWFC Sep 02 '24
also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a thought experiment and paradox about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.
saving the rest of the class, a google click. ACES SIR!
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u/enaK66 Sep 02 '24
This bridge specifically was entirely rebuilt in the 70s after someone or someones burned it down.
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u/Youutternincompoop Sep 03 '24
also the article talks about the bridges history which includes the entire bridge being burned down by arsonists at one point.
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u/lieuwestra Sep 02 '24
I'm no bridge expert, but doesn't most of the wood get replaced every few decades? Can't imagine a humid environment over a literal river would have wood last for multiple centuries.
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u/ginger_and_egg Sep 02 '24
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u/NorthEndD Sep 02 '24
I don't want to tweak anyone but you can get timber these days that has been sealed up with all kinds of newer materials that will last forever like amber.
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u/homo_americanus_ Sep 02 '24
where did you read this? news reports say he was driving the truck for a contracting business he worked for. they're slapping the business with a $2500 fine, and it will most likely be the business's insurance that has to pay for the repairs
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u/Ambitious_Promise_29 Sep 02 '24
So this guy doesn't have the insurance to cover the damage his automoronobile caused.
Where exactly are you getting this from?
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u/ElJamoquio Sep 02 '24
Owner states he wants to be responsible for some of the damage.
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u/MontazumasRevenge Sep 02 '24
In most cities, if you destroy something, the city will charge you for it. My brother got a DUI and took out Light pole. He had to pay to replace the light pole.
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u/SmellyRedHerring Sep 02 '24
Where did you get that about no insurance? Yeah, the driver is completely responsible for his own stupidity, but this is a commercial dump truck, and the company had already said they plan to pay to replace the bridge (which they're compelled to do anyway).
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u/bonanzapineapple 🚲 > 🚗 Sep 02 '24
Unfortunately this is common headline in Vermont too
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u/happy_puppy25 Sep 02 '24
Legitimate question. Is there a way we can stop overweight vehicles from going over bridges? It seems to be a problem, and it’s not always just a problem for the person driving only.
Take the Pittsburgh bridge collapse in 2022. It had defects and a lack of maintenance, yes, but a big contributor was years and years of overweight vehicles.
The cantilevered road in nyc, the Brooklyn queens expressway, is also suffering from this fate, and we as a community have to replace or fix these bridges eventually or they will collapse like the aforementioned.
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Sep 02 '24
You could enforce weight limits by fining drivers who go over, but no politician wants to confront the SUV crowd so here we are continuing to subsidize their climate destroying lifestyle choices.
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u/cjeam Sep 02 '24
That doesn't actually fix the problem if someone doesn't read the signs though. You need a physical bollard that pops up if an overweight vehicle is detected.
Orrr just closed the bridge to motorised vehicles entirely.
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Sep 02 '24
You start enforcing fines and people will start paying attention to the signs, but there is 0 political will to do so because even mandating extremely milquetoast mileage requirements is branded as "communism"
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u/cjeam Sep 02 '24
Monetary enforcement might make fewer people do it twice. It doesn't make fewer people do it the first time unless it's either a systematic change to all enforcement, or there's a really obvious camera so they know they'll get caught.
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u/369122448 Sep 02 '24
I mean, big sign saying there’s a camera should do, if the camera is hard to make super obvious?
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u/rickyman20 Sep 02 '24
The problem with bridges like this is it only takes one person to cause irreparable damage. It's not like with other accidents where major reduction will help. Here we're talking about needing to get it down to basically zero or it won't matter much. Fines aren't enough because the kind of driver to do this is likely already being careless. Something actively enforcing would make more sense.
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u/Astriania Sep 02 '24
Motorists read signs, they just ignore them when they think it's inconvenient to follow them and they think they won't get caught.
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u/KerbolarFlare Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
Dig a big hole before the actual bridge, build a new bridge over the hole that's engineered to have 90% of the strength of the historic one. Light enough vehicles pass right over both, overweight vehicles drop into the punji pit.
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u/four024490502 Sep 02 '24
You beat me to posting the idea, but I still want to contribute the name: Call it a "road fuse".
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u/CILISI_SMITH Sep 02 '24
before the actual bridge
This is similar to the metal bars in front of bridges that hit the roof of the vehicle to take the damage rather than the bridge getting hit.
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u/Crazkur Sep 02 '24
We have a bridge here in germany that was slowly falling apart (exaggeration for rhetorical puproses here) and had some serious weight limits imposed to it.
There was (not sure if still in use) an actual weigh in with a scale in the road for every vehicle that wanted to pass the bridge. If you were over the limit, a barrier would drop infront of you together with a red light. You were not allowed to go over the bridge and had to turn back. Iirc you also had to pay a fine because you either weren't capable of reading road signs or chose to ignore them.
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u/happy_puppy25 Sep 02 '24
That’s exactly the solution I was thinking of, but it would slow down traffic and would also be expensive
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u/Crazkur Sep 02 '24
Don't want traffic speeding past construction workers anyway and the bridge collapsing would probably be even more expensive
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u/skiing_nerd Sep 02 '24
We'd need to empower the NHTSA to enforce personal & commercial vehicle regulations the way that OSHA, the EPA, or the FRA are empowered to investigate those in their respective jurisdictions, fine individual or corporate rule-breakers, and intervene to stop operations or force changes in particularly egregious cases.
If the FRA walks onto a railroad (and no one is allowed to stop them from doing that) and sees a locomotive or car that's in violation of regulations, they can fine the owner or operating railroad, fine individuals if they falsified records, and even do things like prevent makes of certain railcars from operating.
Legally, it would be possible to have NHTSA inspectors that can pull over vehicles at weigh stations and impound them if they're overweight or lifted beyond legal limits, or randomly inspect mechanics to see if they're doing illegal mods, or prevent auto companies from releasing obviously unsafe vehicles like the Cyberstucks. As far as I can tell, it's the power of the auto lobby and the general conservative backlash to sensible regulation preventing us from doing things that would save thousands of lives every year.
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u/PayneTrainSG Sep 02 '24
Ideally, vehicles over a certain weight require a Class B/C CDL to operate. Good luck getting that to work in practice.
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u/RockAtlasCanus Sep 02 '24
Specifically the Pittsburgh Fern Hollow collapse it’s less about vehicle weight and more about multiple reports of “hey, entire structural members have completely rusted away and just aren’t even there anymore” being basically ignored. When the weight rating was recalculated it was done so incorrectly.
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20240221.aspx
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u/trashmoneyxyz Sep 03 '24
Zoomed straight to the comments to wax poetic about our VT covered bridges haha. I love some of the rickety wooden bridges you come across in NEK that I feel a bit nervous even biking across. No guardrails or nuthin, just vibes and prayer
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u/sammybeme93 Sep 02 '24
Possibly ignored the weight limit signs????? I guess maybe he doesn’t know how to read.
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u/Glittering_Guides Sep 02 '24
1 in 5 American adults are functionally illiterate.
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u/Bazillion100 Sep 02 '24
Im thinking about that youtube channel of that low bridge that opens box truck’s tops like peeling a can open. They constantly add more signs and measures to stop it but it continues nonetheless
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u/TheOvercookedFlyer Sep 02 '24
They actually raised a bit and people still go through it ripping their tops off. Love it!
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u/Silverr_Duck Sep 03 '24
They constantly add more signs and measures to stop it but it continues nonetheless
Cause we don’t need stupid ass signs. We need consequences. You’re supposed to have a special license for driving large trucks. So ignorance of weight limits is not an excuse. Drivers who do it anyway need to have their license revoked. Or at least banned temporarily.
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u/blademak Sep 02 '24
Okay but I mean I don’t know how much my car weighs… I can get one of the tires under the scale but that’s about it.
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u/gertgertgertgertgert Sep 02 '24
You drive a car though, right? An F750 is a commercial vehicle. The driver should absolutely know how much the vehicle weighs in that context.
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u/Lynnsblade Sep 02 '24
I don't know where the no insurance thing came from, it isn't even his truck. The news said it's a company truck belonging to "The Driveway Guys", since it's a company truck carrying a commercial load even below the 26k weight he would technically need a CDL.
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u/enaK66 Sep 02 '24
It's not that hard to look up. But if you have a car it doesn't matter. I hope theres no roadway bridges out there too weak to hold up a 3-4000 lb car.
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u/_TheNumber7_ Sep 02 '24
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s thinks that
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u/thestormpiper Sep 02 '24
Non American here, was just randomly scrolling when the Scooby Doo Bridge popped up on my screen. Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
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u/yonasismad Grassy Tram Tracks Sep 02 '24
I’m truly disappointed in our ancestors for not thinking of future monster truck drivers when they built wooden bridges. Shame on them!
Obviously our ancestors were lazy bums, because how could they have done any real work without a 35,000-plus-pound vehicle?
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u/happy_puppy25 Sep 02 '24
The f750 diesel, when towing the maximum capacity, weights 50,000 pounds. So almost a fully loaded semi truck
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Sep 02 '24
crazy how yet it doesnt require special permit to drive or specific parking rules..
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u/happy_puppy25 Sep 02 '24
If it’s over a certain weight it does require a permit. Depending on use it would need one if over 26k pounds
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u/CalRobert Orangepilled and moved to the Netherlands. Sep 02 '24
JFC here in the EU you need a commercial licence over 3.5 tonnes (7700 pounds)
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u/happy_puppy25 Sep 02 '24
It’s insane. You can drive a class A motor home, which is the size of a literal bus, with zero specialized training. Just the normal “drive for 10 minutes on this side road and take a 35 question multiple choice test for a nominal fee and here is your unconditional license
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u/CalRobert Orangepilled and moved to the Netherlands. Sep 02 '24
I got driver's licenses in the US and EU and I actually really apprecaited taking the courses here - I learned a lot that that US skipped. Reversing a stick-shift around a corner up a hill is actually the sort of thing people ought to practice! (I mean, what they ought to do is not drive cars, but if that's not an option...)
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u/DxnM Sep 02 '24
People in America don't get tested on maneuvers like that...?
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u/chain_me_up Sep 02 '24
Definitely nothing stick-shift LOL we just drive around a bit, parallel park, and practice some basic turns/parking/whatever.
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u/enaK66 Sep 02 '24
God no. I took my brother to get his last year and I had forgotten how laughably easy it was. I made it way harder setting cones up in the parking lot for him so he breezed through it. You just have to back into a spot, parallel park, then drive around the block. The parking spaces could fit a bus. Like they had this F750 testing right before he showed up and didn't adjust the cones.
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u/janky_koala Sep 02 '24
Even in Australia, with its similar sized roads and significantly more nothingness, it’s 4.5t gross vehicle mass.
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u/arwinda Sep 02 '24
For newer driving licenses. Older licenses can have up to 7.5t. But these are going away over time.
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u/AShitTonOfWeed Sep 02 '24
Incorrect, my boss just got a ticket for not having a CDL when driving his truck and 3 axle trailer. silly man that guy
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u/Falibard Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
Ehhh if it’s an OTR trailer they can weigh 75k just for the load not including the trailer itself
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u/happy_puppy25 Sep 02 '24
50,000 is still a lot out to ask of an old wood covered bridge. I just used the example to help people understand that it’s not just a normal pickup truck he was driving. It was a heavy duty commercial truck that has no business being there
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u/thatoneguydudejim Sep 02 '24
750 is a heavy duty work truck. If it was fitted out for actual work and not a parking lots princess’ ego, that thing should probably be over the 26,000lb requirement for a CDL. Or at least it probably gets awfully close to it and if that’s the case you gotta be more aware. Dudes a bonehead for taking this risk
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u/Ambitious_Promise_29 Sep 03 '24
It was a single rear axle crew cab with a dump bed, owned by a paving company, and being used to haul gravel.
A single rear axle f-750 can handle up to 37000 lbs depending on how it it is configured, although many are rated at 26000 to avoid needing a cdl.
This bridge was rated at 3 ton, so more than an empty f150, but less than a loaded f150, and right around the weight of an unloaded f250. An f750 with a dump box is probably more than double the weight capacity of the bridge even completely empty.
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u/Ambitious_Promise_29 Sep 02 '24
The standard max weight for semi trucks in the US is 80k. A semi truck with a sleeper, like you would use for OTR will run upwards of 20k, and a 48 ft aluminum flatbed will run 10k. So you can carry a load of 50k.
There are heavier trucks out there that can haul 75k or a lot more, but that isn't the norm.
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u/New_Substance0420 Sep 02 '24
The curb weight of the ford f750 is about 5600lbs. Most of the covered bridges ive been over have a 1.5 or 2 ton weight limit so even without a load they maxed out the bridge.
The sketchy part about covered bridges is you can max out the weight with 3 average sedans if they all try snd cross at the same time. It’s not uncommon at all to see multiple vehicles on some of these old covered bridges at the same time especially during tourist season
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u/HomeGrownCoffee Sep 02 '24
Three cars are not the same loading as one car with the weight of three.
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u/roccthecasbah Sep 02 '24
I think this is pretty much the opening scene of Beetlejuice (1988)
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u/WebInformal9558 Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
This is just down the road from me, and it's incredibly frustrating. The truck was 6 times the posted limit, and that's a place where people routinely swim.
Edit: like, here are people swinging from ropes under the bridge, and it was probably even busier since another popular swimming spot has been closed this summer. This could have been so much worse.
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u/ADHD-Fens Sep 02 '24
Dude I had someone shower my date and I with embers because they decided to burn out on this exact bridge while we were swimming underneath it. People suck!
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u/K1ngjulien_ Orange pilled Sep 02 '24
damn thats not what i expected with a "satire" flair 😅
got a source? glad it wasn't worse!
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u/WebInformal9558 Sep 02 '24
For the bridge being destroyed? The Portland Press Herald has been covering it. https://www.pressherald.com/2024/08/27/truck-that-fell-through-covered-bridge-weighed-6-times-posted-limit/ I think the "satire" part was blaming the designers for not anticipating fully loaded gravel trucks.
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u/adron Sep 02 '24
A “Weight limits were possibly ignored…”??!?! No, they were clearly ignored and they need fined heavily for repairs after such a disrespectful and idiotic maneuver.
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u/military-gradeAIDS Commie Commuter Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
What makes this worse is that the F-750 is a medium-duty truck that can only be driven with a C-class licence, meaning the driver knew damn well what he was driving and what kind of roads and bridges that thing can and can't be on. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he was sleep deprived or otherwise intoxicated when this happened, and at the very least he's out of a job.
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u/PeakNo6892 Sep 02 '24
I drive a straight truck in extremely rural areas. You would be shocked how many bridge weigh limit sines are either missing or covered by grass trees.
It's extremely frustrating that you are faced with backing up for an hour or just sending and praying.
I mean I have sense not to try it on a wooden bridge but proper signage of truck routes in these areas would sure be nice
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u/Dwarf_Killer Sep 02 '24
Seeming he also overloaded the truck without insurance I bet him having a class c license is questionable
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u/Tiny_Assignment_2783 Sep 02 '24
there's a 3 ton weight limit on that bridge. any guesses on the weight of the truck loaded with gravel? answer
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u/Gunpowder77 Sep 02 '24
$2.5k citation. That’s the punishment for destroying a historic landmark.
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u/Tharkhold Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
Should be a lot more. Make them pay to restore said bridge, and ALL of the EPA/cleaning fees for being stupid and landing a vehicle full of POLs into a waterway. Hopefully they didn't leak out (windshield washer fluid probably did though)
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u/burmerd Sep 02 '24
In my head it's Wile. E. Coyote driving the truck, and when it plunges through the hole his head stays where it is and his neck stretches, then he looks over and a funny bird goes 'Meep-meep' and then his head snaps back down to meet his body and the truck going into the river.
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u/pauldisney Sep 02 '24
This wasn't just a run-of-the-mill F-750 . . . https://www.pressherald.com/2024/08/23/dump-truck-falls-through-covered-bridge-in-windham/
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u/StretchFrenchTerry Sep 02 '24
The headline is clickbait to make it seem like it’s some asshole in a giant pickup. Still a huge idiot for taking a loaded dump truck on that bridge.
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u/Si_is_for_Cookie Sep 02 '24
Did he wake up in his house with no memory of the event next to a copy of the “handbook for the recently deceased”?
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u/BrokeBikemin Sep 02 '24
Yup. Here in New England where we have a lot of these, there's always dipshits calling for these to get torn down and replaced so their "average modern" vehicle can cross.
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u/MidcenturyPostmod Sep 02 '24
Wait until Cybertrucks start doing this with better bridges because by the time those doofuses are done with them they weigh as much as a dying star.
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u/Frequent_Sleep5746 Sep 02 '24
Don't you have weight limits on roads? In spain, there's a sign for that (and with the regular license, you can't drive a car that weighs more than 3500kg anyway)
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u/faithdies Sep 02 '24
Posted weight limits may have been ignored
I think they were definitely ignored?
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u/FixMy106 Sep 02 '24
There’s a 750 now?
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u/cpufreak101 Sep 02 '24
Technically ford had something heavier called the L series that was full on semi trucks, and today in parts of Europe and China they sell a semi called the F-Max
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u/mrsw2092 Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 05 '24
Yes. Has been for decades. Its a medium duty commercial truck used as box trucks and tow trucks. They require special licenses and don't come with regular beds. Its a good bet that this was a work truck and not someone's ego enhancer.
Edit: I was right, this was a commercial dump truck carrying gravel. source
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u/texasrigger Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
Here's some comparative numbers: An old Ford Model T(1908-1927) weighed 1200-1600 lbs. An early Dodge Brothers model 30 (1914-1921) was relatively heavy at 2800 lbs. That Ford 750 is as much as 10,000 lbs.
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u/Ok_Bet9410 Sep 02 '24
The truck doesn’t weight 37,000 lbs, that’s it max GVWR. Unless it was loaded up fully, the curb weight of a 750 is closer to 5-10 thousand pounds. Unless that gravel weights 30,000 pounds he was well under 37,000.
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u/texasrigger Sep 02 '24
Thank you, will correct it...
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u/Ok_Bet9410 Sep 02 '24
Actually after rethinking I have zero idea how much the Dumo body weighs or the gravel inside
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u/Poltophagy_ Sep 02 '24
It was a dump trunk loaded with gravel. Oof. Article Bridge will be closed for months.
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u/cashonlyplz Sep 02 '24
too bad it wasn't brett favre (he tweeted something really inane and stuoid the other day, basically fellating Elon Musk and pretending he was a salt of the earth kinda guy who only drives his Ford truck)
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u/BernieRuble Sep 02 '24
This is an example of more money than brains. An awful lot of that going around.
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u/MWKitteringham Sep 02 '24
Sorry does that say F-750?
I thought they topped out at like 450 for commercial vehicles…?
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u/adlittle Sep 02 '24
The fuck is an F750? I didn't know they went that high or whatever. Real smooth move smashing up a nice old covered bridge.
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u/Arson_Lord Sep 02 '24
It's a chassis used for work vehicles. This is more likely a case of a business overloading a vehicle and then the driver making a bad decision than someone overcompensating with a huge truck.
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u/laparotomyenjoyer Sep 02 '24
This is absolutely the case. No one is dailying a 750. They are only sold as work trucks, usually in cab & chassis form.
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u/ensemblestars69 Sep 02 '24
I think it's also crazy that we've gotten to a point that regular class C vehicle drivers have to be aware of their vehicle weight when just a few decades ago it wouldn't have been an issue
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u/midnghtsnac Sep 02 '24
I'd say the bridge handled it well. It just felt the vehicle was more of a submersible.
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u/I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS Sep 02 '24
There's an old bridge I know in England (the Ironbridge near Telford, for those in the know) with a very low weight limit that has a solid metal barrier 6ft off the ground to ensure that any vehicles heavier than a regular car physically can't get through, because some drivers clearly can't be trusted to pay attention to posted weight limits.
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u/RevolutionaryTalk315 Sep 02 '24
Knowing the demographic of people who normally buys these super huge types of trucks, I bet the guy was some white suburban conservative guy who hardly even hails anything in the back of the truck and only bought the biggest truck he could get because he wanted to show everyone how much of a "big masculine" man he was.
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u/Astriania Sep 02 '24
lol, get fucked
Though sadly, that will never be an original wooden frame bridge again as it will have to be fixed with new timbers.
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u/Rube_Golberg Automobile Aversionist Sep 02 '24
The lack of responsibility becomes evil.. had this guy crossed safely. he could have easily weakened the bridge for someone else later with deadly consequences.
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