Someone Just Bought A Bridge

Yup I hate driving through water, knowing there is a bridge, but can't see it. lol
Every breakup the river gets way out of its banks, just before you get to prudhoe and some years gets the road. A few years ago we drove a couple of miles through 2 feet of water or more for a couple of weeks, just stay between the deliniators. We all knew it would eventually wash out and just hoped we were on the right side of it. A friend wasthe last one to get in, and I ad several friends that had to fly outand leave their trucks for about a month.
The same thing happens on the ice roads every year, you drive through overflow, till they close the road, hoping that you are on the land side, if not you have to leave your truck, till the ice goes away and barges start running. lol

 

Ya hey! I be making fun of myself, eh!

 

Naw. That's OUR job, ya newbie.

 

We've all been over plenty of restricted bridges, it's part of the job. When at the asphalt company, while sealcoating, we'd run loaded tandem dumps and the chip spreader over 10 ton bridges all the time, at least 30 tons. Once coming up on a posted 40 ton bridge, I was at 80g's myself, I came across a truck coming the other way, we met perfectly on the bridge. I grabbed the mike, and said, "you empty"? He said, nope, 80K. I said, I guess we re-tested the bridge. I had a load of top dressing sand going to a golf course once, I asked a guy where to dump it, he pointed across the pond on that bridge. I was grossed about 68g's, crossed the bridge, didn't think anything of it. The groundskeeper asked, how did I get there, I said, across that bridge. He laughed, and said, thanks for testing the bridge, we run golf carts over that bridge, so you never know. I don't think this was this guys 1st time over that bridge.

 

It's all good. It's a new day. Not sweating it anymore. I expressed myself, yall expressed yourselves. I was over it pretty quickly. Anyway, drivers, check the weight limit before crossing bridges today.....you dont want to be that one lady driver that didnt know much 6 tons was.

 

I feel so bad for that driver. Bad decisions are made when when you have no other route for the load. Ive been there with drilling and fracing deliveries.

It should be a legal requirement for these companies to get the driver a legal route when the load can not be delivered legally.

 

Big hood, big stacks, big bull bar....those guys don't do dumb #### right? Must be the bridges fault. It's only the drivers fault if they have a plastic hood and *insert your favorite mega here* on the side of the trailer. At least that's what I gather from reading stuff on here lol. ####ing bridge holding that driver up.

 

A couple years ago I was part of a six truckload delivery of drill pipe to an oil rig. We followed the turn by turn and came around a sharp curve on the narrow dirt road to see an old steel bridge marked for 6 tons AND 11'8" clearance.

Apparently the county found out about our routing and a deputy was there, blocking the bridge. We had to back up a mile to the last intersection, head south, then turn east to cross the river on a really well made concrete bridge. Somebody screwed up the directions. That poor deputy was going to have to sit there all day.

 

Ive bit the bullet on a lot of 10 ton bridges thinking its not that bad since they are short and I only have one tandem on at a time.

The least the counties could do is put a warning at the nearest intersections so you have a chance to try and find another route instead of being faced with backing 1 mile.

 

Texas and Oklahoma roughnecks ain't got nothing on Nodak roughnecks, lmao!