[The signs] are placed along Hurricane Road at the last major intersection before arriving at the bridge crossing. Basically, there’s no way to miss them.
The reporter overestimates most truck drivers' situational awareness.
"I paid the most money to get the best truck and it can do anything. Ain't no fuckin' sign gonna tell me my truck can't do it!"
I'm not seeing any cops around here
So when is the driver getting charged for vandalism and littering?
The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers
The driver deserves criminal punishment in addition to the punishment of ignoring physics.
Would this be a criminal offense? As much as it’s annoying that his car is so massive, he drove a street legal vehicle in the wrong place. Paying for the damages seems like a sufficient consequence.
Not a lawyer, but I would assume that reckless driving would apply here. If nothing else, he should be liable for the damages financially due to negligence
If it's overweight, it's not street legal.
Street legal*
*not legal on all streets
It was overweight for the bridge, not the road. It was from a commercial trucking company, so likely a dump truck. The first clue should be that it was a F-750. There are pickup beds for them, but they're almost always a flatbed or dump bed.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine
Repair estimates have not been released, but the owner of the truck company has offered to help pay for the rebuild. The incident itself remains under investigation by local authorities.
The trucking company has already offered to help pay for it. It's likely covered under their insurance and the driver is almost certainly been fired.
Read the actual article. This was a commercial vehicle that was hauling gravel. I think most folks are assuming it was some dumbass in a lifted truck with a few MAGA stickers on the back. That’s not the case.
The driver is still at fault for ignoring the posted weight limits, but it’s not like he was driving a personal vehicle, as much as we’d all love to see a some of these massive trucks and SUVs go through a bridge.
Can we just have a bridge that detects MAGA trucks and ditches them then?
So some facts here:
The couple that were driving the truck died, and thier house was sold to a new family, who they haunted.
Sandworms... You hate 'em, right?
one less wankpanzer on the road, just a shame a bridge had to be put in harms way to do so.
I just googled "Ford 750". No way this shit exists for real, seems like a Hot Wheels
The idea is that it's the base for things like a dump truck, a gravel hauler, small firetruck, or other large commercial vehicle.
If anyone is driving one around as a form of transportation, they are probably avoiding therapy.
I've used them for work. Some models can pull more than small tractor trailer rigs. Using them as a pickup truck is insane.
Yep: 650 dump trucks, 750 utility bed cranes.
It's a commercial vehicle. Very few, if any, people drive them as normal commuter vehicles.
Damn. The posted limit on the bridge is 3 tons. The truck empty weighs 4.5 tons and they were hauling a full load of gravel. What an idiot. They better yank the driver's commercial license because he obviously wasn't reading any signs.
I used to live near a few covered bridges, and trucks would always be doing shit like this. They'd either be overweight and cause damage to the bridge (though never this bad) or they'd be too tall and drive off with part of the bridge attached.
Fun fact: school buses in the US are legally allowed to ignore posted weight limits on bridges. While this may seem particularly insane, usually on bridges the posted weight limit is not the weight that will make the bridge instantly collapse, it's the weight that if regularly exceeded by crossing vehicles will cause undue wear and require the bridge to be repaired or replaced sooner than it otherwise would have been. School buses are infrequent enough (and relatively light enough, even despite the child obesity epidemic) that they don't create a significant problem.
On a wooden bridge like this, though, the same logic does not apply. I sure wouldn't cross it in my school bus, but the height limit would preclude that anyway.
I swear to god, the Ford F-750 looks like if you had asked AI to design the biggest lifted pickup specifically for the dudes with fragile masculinities and court-mandated anger management classes.
F-750 is sold for specialized uses, as ambulance, crane vehicle, etc. It is a commercial vehicle, not a normal truck for private individuals. In fact, this picture is a modified F-750(well technically all F-750 are modified). Normally the truck comes just as a base platform and then you build stuff on it.
Cue car brains complaining about how their mini tanks must be supported by all infrastructure
But they also don't want to pay taxes or see any slowdowns due to repairs or upgrades. The same energy as a child wishing every day were Christmas.
What an asshole. There's no way they didn't know they were overweight either. Maybe they couldn't see the sign through all their 'rolling coal'.
Probably thought the weight limit was a suggestion and not a hard constraint. Yikes
For once, an article reporting an "overweight Ford" causing a mess isn't referring to a politician in Ontario.
Posted weight limits were possibly ignored
(Emphasis added)
I think we can rule out any other possibility. Either they didn’t know the weight of their truck and ignored the weight limit, or they did know the weight of their truck and ignored the weight limit. Either way, they ignored the weight limit.
I lived by a historic covered bridge as a kid. The people in the area would have been PISSED if something like this happened. The bridge was originally designed for horses and buggies, so if your vehicle weighed too much, you couldn't go on it.
Check for a nearby gothic revival farmhouse perched on a hill. There might be a pair of new ghosts in the attic. Beware of the weirdo family that just moved in. The daughter is cool though.
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