The bridge is an orange-pilled urbanist

[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 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.

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.
- 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?
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
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.

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
- BeatleSmoothie! BeatleSmothie! BeatleSmothie!.... It's not working! Was it soup? BeatleSoup!, nah. Doesn't sound right. It was a liquid for sure! 😁
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.

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.

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
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.

The actual article https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine

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.
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.
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
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.

For once, an article reporting an "overweight Ford" causing a mess isn't referring to a politician in Ontario.

Posted weight limits were possibly ignored

(Emphasis added)

I think we can rule out any other possibility. Either they didn’t know the weight of their truck and ignored the weight limit, or they did know the weight of their truck and ignored the weight limit. Either way, they ignored the weight limit.

I think they're arguing semantics. If the driver didn't know the limits, they wouldn't have ignored them, they'd have been ignorant to them
It's more likely that the driver just didn't care.

I lived by a historic covered bridge as a kid. The people in the area would have been PISSED if something like this happened. The bridge was originally designed for horses and buggies, so if your vehicle weighed too much, you couldn't go on it.

Looks like the marketing for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has gotten extremely meta.

Are we fat-shaming cars now?

Aren't we always?

This is the opening plot to Beetlejuice

The F-650 and F-750's are designed as small commercial trucks that should have small dump truck bodies or maybe flat bed for hauling other materials. They are not meant to just have a standard pickup bed on the back. They are ideal for small contractors who do not need as large a quantity of material that a large triaxle truck can carry. But of course, some people want the biggest personal truck to drive around so things like your picture are born.
I watched the Fall Guy movie recently.
What I remember from the TV series was the guy drove an absolutely enormous truck for no real reason at all.
In the remake he drives a similar sized truck, but now it doesn't stand out from anybody else's at all. He drives. That's it.
It's like seeing Chunk from The Goonies. Now he's just a kid, rather than the fat kid.
- no way beans driving pick-up truck's.
Holy crap its real
I straight up thought this was AI generated...wtf
- Allow me to show you something I was stopped behind in downtown Nashville last week…
I think the front end is commonly used for heavy duty commercial purposes like dump trucks, but selling it for consumer purposes should be illegal.

The view through that hole in the bridge looks like something out of Soul Reaver.

At least it ended funny

Tim Burtony soundtrack intensifies.

Keep an eye on that truck driver for winning a Darwin Award sooner or later…

lol sounds about right

L+ratio bozo stupid.

I was confused about the title because the first page of search said it meant being a crypto bro.

Only Wiktionary had the appropriate meaning derived from the not just bikes channel

My brain mentally filters out "-pilled" as meaningless gen z slang.

School is hard sometimes

And the goblin who'd covered up the weight limit sign as the car was on approach said as he was uncovering it: ha! Gorham!

Man, drivers really fell off

I'm pretty sure that bridge is a portal to another world.

Source: the documentary Nos4atu

Haha I know that one. NOS4A2. I quite liked it, much in the vein of stranger things. Also contains a car that should get properly fucked.

makes me genuinely laugh

These cars aren't resembling tanks, but are literally tanks! Their size measures up to being one of a tank, their weight one of a tank, and the damage it fucking causes when it rams into a family of four in a small sedan one of a tank.

Imagine the amount they cost tax payers from road repairs alone, enough to build a functioning fast rail network in California

Natural selection

Oh nooo, they desperately needed an emergency 10cc of ego transplant but the fell though a bridge on the way to the boostegoification facility.

Rip.

I hope they build a new wider 4 lane bridge to accommodate the most basic traffic needs.

750s are work trucks
- Oh, my bad, I though they were pleasure trucks.

It’s beetle juice all over again

Lololol no it's not. These things have definitions and it ain't Wikipedia nor is it dida dumb thing.

This thread is wild. People wanting to charge this guy and happy that this guy died (clearly non readers). Weird.

Yeah, I want the guy to be ok (apparently he was) and hopefully some learning will happen.
My second reaction is... from the photo it looks like he opened a portal into another dimension.
Fuckcars is a very toxic community. Not just this one on lemmy. Online bicycle activists are like vegans, actively turning people away from an objectively good lifestyle because they're just such giant sanctimonious dicks about it.
- Many communities have some number of jerks. I actually find that people constantly stereotype based on outliers they hear about online. I've met very few vegans who were normal, reasonable prople, yet I've met very many people who steteotype and hate on vegans despite knowing none.

Edit 3: I know nobody here is going to miss me, but I'm going to block this community and I feel it's fair for me to get to explain why. I've frequented this community since I came from reddit and the comments always come across as "us vs them" to the point of hostility toward each other. It's really not kind or welcoming. I hope you all have a nice day and find that feeling of welcomeness that I was looking for

Edit 2: Are people just angry? I ask a genuine question and get two snide remarks as answers. Lemmy is proving to be NO better than reddit

Is it just me or does the bridge on the left look like it has concrete flooring? If so, why didn't they just get two pictures of the actual affected bridge?

Edit: please don't just downvote me. I'm asking a question because I don't know the answer

The bridge on the left is the same bridge and has the same wooden flooring. It might just be hard for you to see in the shadows.
You are getting downvoted for saying it isn't the same bridge in both pictures.
- I'm sorry, but I didn't say that. I was asking a genuine question
Why didn't they think of taking pictures before the bridge was destroyed! Oh the humanity!
- I know you're trying to insult me, but it's a historic bridge. I'm sure there are dozens of photos of it before the destruction
Not sure if you already saw this answer, but if you zoom into the pictures, they both are the same bridge. The picture on the left at first looks like it has a concrete floor, but it's just a trick of the lighting.
The wooden planks are in the shade and it creates the illusion that they are the same color as the asphalt road that runs up to the actual bridge surface.
Once you zoom in, you can see all the individual wooden planks in the left photo.
I was confused too the first time I saw the picture.
The quality of online discourse suffers severely on weekends, particularly holiday weekends. I support and respect that you expect more. But, everything at scale is ,at best, moderate. Find your tiny home. Then, venture out only when you want. Consider using a couple of accounts to segregate conversations at home from conversations outside.
- You're giving them too much credit. Yeah it would be nice if online discussions could be more civil but the "snide" comments mentioned were not worth getting upset about and one of them wasn't even snide at all but actually helpful and genuinely answering the question to which they responded defensively and playing the victim. That kind of victim mentality to actually helpful comments that maybe the original commenter didn't want to hear and editing to whine about downvotes is just as annoying as moderately uncivil comments.