[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
That reporter has never heard of http://11foot8.com/
I have not and I am in love
Every time i see these vids im just sat there thinking “HOW DO YOU MISS ALL THE SIGNS???” its not even just normal signs, it has lights, led text, a big fat orange steel bar, standard high vis signs on both sides.
Just makes it all the more entertaining.
The most fun are when the driver approaches slowly, like you can sneak up on it…
Wait until it happens to you. It almost did to me and I was entirely oblivious, so I can no longer blame them for being idiots.
I was moving to a new city, but I had been there many times. One of the more useful roads was along the River, curving in and out, and under a bunch of low bridges: great fun to drive, plus I was really familiar with it. So, guess what route I naturally took with the moving van. Yup. Did I notice all the “Cars Only” signs? Nope, they had all faded into background noise. Did I notice all the height limits? Nope, not used to looking for those, plus I was busy trying to find my way around an unfamiliar area pre-GPS. I was saved by a buddy whose car I was following, who realized it and got off the road at the last minute. I still didn’t have a clue, but eventually matched up the height of the truck with the height of the bridges, and realized how close I had come to being on the News
Most people are just oblivious. It’s not that they didn’t see the signs most of the time. It’s that they don’t know the height/weight of their vehicle and just assuming, eh it’ll be fine. I’m shocked how many people can’t tell me what year their car is…some can’t even tell me the model. It’s a Toyota something…it’s blue.
I was at a tire shop the other day and somebody gave them the keys and said “it’s a blue Honda Accord”
The tech came back confused and eventually they realized it was a grayish (maybe a tinge of blue) Hyundai Accent.
At least they got the first letters correct, I guess.
My car’s initials as H.A. and the colour is between #00f and #eef.
My car was assigned minivan at birth, but now identifies as a VW beetle with a Porsche engine swap.
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.
Street-legal, bridge-legal, who gives a shit. The point is, they drove it illegally and should be able to be punished accordingly. The make and model are irrelevant.
Do you think they wont be if not for this internet rage?
He failed to observe a traffic control device. There’s at least a ticket in there somewhere for him.
If the bridge had been just a bit sturdier, it could have been damaged jut to the point where the truck could have passed, but the next person driving over would have fell in and risked their lives.
Perhaps the cost of the damage would add up to something they could try to make felonious
but getting into a car accident while kayaking is an interesting bragging right lol
That is in no way related to the question asked. Are you a career politician by chance?
Sorry, I was quoting the article in attempted response to another commenter saying the driver was dead :0
Nice save.
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.
What about the environmental damage of a car filled with gasoline, oil and other toxic materials falling into the river below? I doubt anyone will have to pay for the full cleanup
Law enforcement fines the trucking company, trucking company files insurance claim, trucking company pays.
Hazmat was probably the third for fourth on the scene after police, fire and ambulance and would have put those floating oil absorbers in the river.
Yeah something like this isn’t some wild out of the blue occurance that nobody is prepared for. Any department of transportation of any acceptable competence level has a procedure for catastrophic bridge failure, especially by vehicular overload.
Need to pay the cost to repair the bridge too
You can’t charge a corpse
There’s some nifty trick here to avoid parking tickets
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 suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own”
Was it a niffTea sponsored bridge, though?
Don’t know what the mom is complaining about. He didn’t know the answer and he did tell him.
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?
To be far, I know a lot of CDL people who are MAGA, so this would track.
Even worse, professional driver should have known better.
To be fair, the stock Ford 750 looks like the douchiest pickup vehicle imaginable. It’s like if you had asked an AI to design a truck specifically for dudes with fragile masculinity and court-mandated anger management classes. All it needs is twin flagpoles mounted to the back, with the American and confederate flags flying side by side.
Okay, but the truck is more commonly paired with a dump truck-style bed when used for commercial purposes like this: https://www.chicagomotorcars.com/imagetag/8228/3/l/Used-2007-Ford-F750-Super-Duty-Dump-Truck---CAT-DIESEL---Automatic---SUPER-CLEAN.jpg
Does a photo exist of the specific model this driver was using? If he was hauling gravel, I would guess he was using a dump truck model.
That is NOT a stock F-750. Try again. Be Better.
And that is the douchiest response you could have to that comment
Sure. Anywhere near as douchey as discrediting this community by spreading that garbage non-sense about what an F-750 actually is.
Ahh I see you don’t understand, I’ll explain. See an actual considerate human would just say “that’s actually not the base model” or whatever you were complaining about, instead you chose to be rude and top it off with a cringe ass “be better”, the go to response for someone who thinks they’ve got the moral high ground but don’t wanna put any sort of discussion into it.
You’re like the 2024 version of man-bun yoga hipsters, be better
Yeah, no. You see, your suggestion is actually what I replied to every other person who commented that claptrap on this post. Its like, right there in my comment history. That specific commenter went so far as to outright claim those pics were THE stock configuration though, and theirs was the last such comment I replied to. They, and you, can actually, on second thought, fuck right off.
I opted to be even slightly civil with them. Maybe because I like their username or I just had an off moment.
You? You made the mistake of assuming I was being, idk, sincere or some shit. No, I don’t even actually hope or care that someone named “pm-your-nudes” even bothers to break character to make more truthful comments, so long as they’re kinda-sorta called on it when they don’t.
Stop being such an insincere-dumbfuck-persona-apologist. Getting people to realize “wow, I was almost fooled by this insincere shit-post-teir bullshit that failed to trip-up this man-bun-yoga-hipster dude” is exactly the shocked reader response I was going for. Welcome to peak internet. 2024 is the new 1994.
Aww buddy, that’s too much, I’m not reading that. hey, I’m going to block you now because we have disagreements, but have a good day though!
So some facts here:
- Commercial truck carrying gravel
- This was a rebuilt bridge, not a historic one
- The owner of the construction company has proactively offered to pay for repairs
- Yes, the driver is am idiot and made a mistake, and is probably going to hear about it for the rest of their lives.
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?
I’m going to see the documentary tomorrow
I hope it’s good. I have a hard time not seeing Wynona Rider as a crazy person now though.
BeatleSmoothie! BeatleSmothie! BeatleSmothie!.. It’s not working! Was it soup? BeatleSoup!, nah. Doesn’t sound right. It was a liquid for sure! 😁
It’s BeetleChowder. But I don’t wanna summon BeetleChowder so I won’t say BeetleChowd
Too late!
Gravel? Holy shit, that’s poor judgement. How can you be comfortable driving such a big truck over a wooden bridge, then add potentially tons of gravel?
and is probably going to hear about it for the rest of their lives.
As they should. They either ignored the signage and/or were oblivious to the weight they were driving around. Both major safety issues. They should have their license suspended for a bit and potentially banned from a cdl.
This isn’t an “oopsie,” this is negligence.
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.
Okay because despite being a commercial vehicle I would have believed someone telling me that it’s mostly used to commute in a residential area lol. Often people drive pickups because they feel they need a truck even tho they never use the bed
Neither of those are stock. Not even close.
Nooooo. They’re on the internet so they’re real.
Serious answer here. So the black truck comes as a truck builder option. You buy the cab, engine and suspension (frame obviously too) and customize from there. The truck is designed to provide PTO and electrical interface for development. They’re a pain to work on. The one of a kind I worked on were. https://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/f650-f750/models/f750-sd-diesel-straight-frame/
Jesus yeah did the same, hahhahah that is the most ridiculous emotional support vehicle I have ever seen!!!
It was a work truck from a commercial trucking company. Likely a dump truck or flatbed. Insurance will pay for the damages and the driver shit canned.
Emotional support vehicle
That’s a good one lol
Gender affirming vehicle?
Gotta need the big cabin to hold in the driver’s lonely emotions
This was work truck hauling crushed gravel. So it was basically acting like a small dump truck.
one less wankpanzer on the road, just a shame a bridge had to be put in harms way to do so.
It was a work vehicle filled with gravel though, not a personal vehicle.
yeah this likely means that the historical bridge will be replaced by a more sturdy and ugly one
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.
The term Historic is being used to grab attention, but this is fixable, even it will take until Spring. The article states that it was rebuilt in the 70’s, but the wooden deck has almost certainly been replaced a few times since then.
Historic is also there to point to why the bridge isn’t at fault. Modern bridges can often handle such weights, but historic bridges can’t. Certain parts of the country have reason (aesthetics, historical value, and tourism) to rebuild and restore their historic bridges rather than replace them with modern bridges.
All bridges are built to their spec. They put Historic in the headline because it would grab attention, but the bridge isn’t as old as it seems. It’s wooden, so the boards already have to be replaced on a scheduled basis. It was rebuilt from scratch in the 70’s after an arson fire, but you can tell from the images that the deck boards the truck fell through is a lot newer. I should look up the bridge on Google maps, but I’m willing to bet that a modern bridge isn’t very far away and that’s why they can wait till spring to repair it with locally sourced wood. If it was a high necessity path, they could go to a hardware store and fix it in a week or two.
No one managed to get a shot of the truck in the water apparently
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 was going to say, even if the bus was over the limit on weight for this thing it wouldn’t clear the roof, but then you said that at the end.
Oh, it would clear the roof all right - it just wouldn’t be a covered bridge any more.
School Bus: look at this cool hat I found
Engineers hate this one trick
Or the bridge would still be covered, but your bus wouldn’t…
Well, school bus bodies are a lot stronger than people think (I say this as someone that’s rebuilt one as a skoolie) but so are wooden structures. I’d pay good money to find out whether school bus or covered bridge roof would win in a fight. I think the reality is that they’d both come out of it in pretty bad shape - but the kids would be fine.
reality chiming in:
both would be fucked.
Even though a school bus takes the same route every day?
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.
yeah, my dad had one back in the day. No extended cab, no bed, no fancy chrome trimmings, was the very front and a rear frame platform. He had a box truck style trailer on his when he was doing contract work.
is that what it looks like out the factory?
No, Ford sells the F750 as a cab-and-frame to companies that use the chassis as the platform for building utility vehicles. That image is a custom creation.
It’s not far off. It’s basically a compacted SEMI TRUCK
If by not far off you mean the cab, with out the extension, and a rear frame platform. Then sure, but it is significantly different looking IMO.
BIG IS BIG!
But in the style of night rider with 57% Tonka truck.
At that point, you may as well just buy a school bus.
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.
And no trains ever
Zinged’em!
Is this the plot to beetlejuice 2?
I thought the same, this looks a lot like the place they had the accident in the first movie
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
To be “fair”, with how material exhaustion works, it could have totally been fine, as the bridge only would have bent and creaked beneath the guy, and then the next, under-weight-limit car would have fallen in.
Yeah you can destructively overload a structure a number of times before catastrophic failure unless you go way over. It may be internal stress but it can be as far as shearing a bolt or two. But each time you lower the load bearing capacity of the structure, and once that’s begun the structure is on borrowed time and you won’t notice until it’s too late unless you have regular inspections
The careful text-books measure
(Let all who build beware!)
The load, the shock, the pressure
Material can bear.
So, when the buckled girder
Lets down the grinding span,
The blame of loss, or murder,
Is laid upon the man.
Not on the Stuff — the Man!- Rudyard Kipling
Thank you.
The average truck driver doesn’t think rules apply to him.
For once, an article reporting an “overweight Ford” causing a mess isn’t referring to a politician in Ontario.
