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Take for instance: Had to get to this mill and the only road to it has a weight limit bridge of 20 tons. Welp, running empty, no biggy, but loaded, it's different. Oddly enough, dump trucks run that bridge all the time over 40 tons, but it just gives me that sinking feeling running over it at 40 tons.
Here where I am at in Robeson County North Carolina they are reassessing some of the bridges on county roads. So bridges with no markings or maybe assessed at 40 Tons are now getting new signs with a stronger weight restriction.
I am assuming they use some formula that calculates how many times at what weight will the bridge probably fail at some confidence level. So, yep a heavy truck might cross ok and then the magic truck crosses and whammm :shock: BTW) If the sign says 5 tons for semi's .. yand you weight 40 tons you can bet you will be the magic truck .. :wink:
So like your story, trucks have been running
legally for quite some time over these bridges, but now the local authorities have decided that not so safely. I at first considered it was political to get trucks off the back roads, but I saw a crew taking soil samples and inspecting a bridge. I assume there are some new efforts being made. So .. the newbie says "Hey trucks have been going across that bridge for years .. why me?!?!"
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