GPS Again. Very stupid driver.

These low weight load zoned bridges are all over Arkansas. I've seen them on their state highways too. These bridges are routinely driven across by big log trucks too but most of them are so short you cannot get the whole truck on them at one time. Sometimes you cant get the whole tractor on them.

 

That is a old style warren pratt truss design, probably 1910 or so. NO way you want to put a big rig on that.

Hell, I remember two bridges of that design and one other custom Iron bridge at our Loch Raven Reservoir built about that era where we cannot take our datsun across anymore. The metal is too tired to hold it. It's only good for people and bikes now.

They sure did buy a new bridge. I would say between one to two millions worth.

Now I could go both ways with this, if the County knew that this bridge is no good for infrastructure why in the world did they not spend that money to make a good bridge in the first place? You cannot depend on idiot people to obey a 50 dollar sign.

 

mega fleet driver whom doesnt bother to pretrip. I wonder if he will now

 

I'm sure he failed at the fryer position and was hired as a truck driver. Seems they hire anyone with a pulse out here.

Dirt road, 6 Ton weight limit sign, wooden bridge decking... And he still drives over it... Pretty scary people like this are out here driving next to all of us on a daily basis.

 

Porta pot power washer would be a better job for him I think, you have to stupider than an I don't know what to try to cross that.

 

I don’t think so based on the ad on the back of the trailer.

 

I just looked at it on the map and I thought it was a little educational. Just as the driver turned of highway 10 onto the "road 49" he crossed over the original path of the old Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad. You can still see the outline of the roadbed on the satellite view.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad (CO&G), known informally as the "Choctaw Route," was an American railroad in the states of the Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The company, originally known as the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, completed its main line between West Memphis, Arkansas and western Oklahoma by 1900. In 1901 the CO&G chartered a subsidiary company, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad, to continue construction west into the Texas panhandle, and by 1902 the railroad had extended as far west as Amarillo.

The CO&G came under the control of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (the "Rock Island") in 1902, and was formally merged into the Rock Island on January 1, 1948. The Memphis-Amarillo route remained an important main line for the Rock Island, hosting local and transcontinental freight traffic as well as passenger trains such as the Choctaw Rocket from 1940-1964.

For educational purposes only.

 

Did a google search from the now hiring on the back of the truck and the Safer site was the first hit....

SAFER Web - Company Snapshot U S CITYLINK CORPORATION
U S CITYLINK CORPORATION

Power Units: 49 Drivers: 52

 

Apparently that big sign saying the max weight of 6 tons wasn't obvious. Kind of a pointless sign anyways because I don't think I've seen an empty tractor trailer that tares in at 12k lbs empty. I mean my little F150 is 5,400lbs lol.

 

although at night, i can clearly see that weight limit sign, so i'd have a hard time thinking the driver did not.

then too, to be that stupid, i have to wonder if he actually knows the average weight of a big rig to be "about" 40 tons, clearly more than the 6 posted.

this is a problem (not for me or others here) but for towns, city's and states that have very little to no warning signs LARGER than the average sized one out there now.

larger signs, maybe lit up would be of some help, and even solar battery powered lights, emit enough light for several hours, are cost effective.

this is a huge problem for the trucking companies that hire these morons, that seem so dependant on GPS, over a real truckers atlas.

of course, immediate firing, and blackballing one from driving should be in order as well.

but morons like that, still manage to get a job, in "some time" from being fired.

CDL MILLS, ought to NOT recommend GPS over a truckers up to date road atlas.

back in my day, we did not have cell phones, or laptops, or google maps.

we went by solid directions, and maps, maybe even some CB radio help as well

todays brand of so called truckers are electronically tethered to some sort of electronic device.

seems they cannot live without anything......electronic....

i pity the future, as i do now, the present.

i try to not let anyone know that i drive trucks, even though so many friends and family already know this, as i ignore any questions/remarks they make about an accident they had seen on the news.

my response to them, i cannot say here, it'll get me spanked.....and maybe a temporary vacation..

but suffice it to say, i really never have ANY GOOD WORDS about the industry and drivers in general, since about oh....maybe the past 20 years at least.