######## weight restrictions

Well yea all the bridges could hold our weight until that one couldn't. And don't forget, that's 13 tons when the bridge was new. Think the bridge in Memphis. That bridge was rated at god knows what when new. But now it's shut down.

I'll do 15 tons on a bridge at 80K. But 13, nope I'm going around. I don't have enough savings to repair a bridge.

 

I crossed those pulling hazmat tankers many times. Usually grossing between 70K - 80K.
That's very common in AR.
Only way to bypass some of those bridges is detour a couple hundred miles out of the way.
I've followed other trucks, tankers, reefers, across those bridges and seen trucks coming the opposite way.

 

The only roads in my truckers road atlas I've found to get around them are so far out of the way, would make you late for the appointment.

 

I have a bridge on the next road that goes over a creek. It is rated at 5 tons and trucks don’t take the road much but when they do, drivers think that they can just fly over it. Like this road, there is big signs saying no trucks.

Last week we had to trucks and a large Amazon prime delivery truck go over it in succession, the trucks made it, the Amazon truck didn’t. The road is closed now.

The trucks were caught on a bling camera so the county is going after the companies for the damage, the Amazon driver was banged up and the county sheriff said they were just under 5tons.

 

Depends on the equipment but from experince between 85500 and 105000. Depends on how ballsy the driver is. I typically hard pass on anything above 81k in my rig....but its also an antique trailer thats iffy at best