Don’t be this guy either

Might need to reconsider my life decisions here

 

After reading the $$$ being thrown around, it crosses my mind lol.

 

That's about a $10 million dollar bridge in 1990's dollars, probably 3 times that today more or less.

He had to be really moving to tear up that girt like that.

 

Some pix don't need 1000 words.

 

I believe the company permitted the load to maybe Jackson to get past the scales then started bootlegging to save the permit cost of 3.5 to 4.00 per mile.
When this is figured out by the state it will come back on the owners. My guess is the bankruptcy attorney has been put on retainer.

His pole car said he didn’t hit the bridge so there goe his liabilty insurance.

 

True.

You just reminded me, I remember working on the old I-480 double decker bridge/freeway in San Francisco. What we had to do was jack up the bridge at the girts (girders) with various sized jack, most of which were 100 ton jacks and there were about 20 girts on the bottom and top decks. The falsework beams were supposed to have stiffeners welded everywhere there was a jack placed. So, we'd jack up the bridge a quarter inch or 5000 psi on the 100 ton jacks which were all plumbed through a manifold so they lifted evenly, then shim up the bridge and pull out the jacks so this way they could tear down the old columns and pour new foundations and new columns..

Well later on, we went back to one bent to de-jack it, put all the jacks up and we were unrestricted about the psi needed to loosen up the shims. My crew was up in the manlift trying to budge the shims while I was operating the jack manifold, the shims were so tight they wouldn't move and we were up in the 8000 psi range when the beam just folded over and spat all the jacks out on the ground. Major mess, safety meetings and write-ups, but the weak spot was that one stiffener was missing on the beam which allowed it to flex too much.