Bridge collapses as UPS truck attempts to cross

[TearsInRain]

So if you have a road with 20 houses on it, and the only way to get down the road is over a bridge like that, you would refuse to deliver to those 20 houses?

no you'd be stupid to

It amazes me how you know so much about a place you've never been to or seen. I'll make sure to tell the people on my route who live on a road with a bridge like that one, that they don't exist.

fyi upstate NY has a ton of bridges like that

 

[Operational needs]

The county bridges usually have signs saying the reduced weight limit though. I still wouldn't trust some of them in a heavy truck that was supposedly under the limit.

I'm going to go to one of the bridges tomorrow and see what the sign says (if I don't forget). Hopefully, it's open. They've been doing some kind of work to it for weeks.

 

[burrheadd]

If the oil truck or the milk tanker crossed them, I did.

Had one on a field road ( road used to go from field to county road for you city slickers)

Grain truck fell threw about 2 hours after I had been over it

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Fun Fact: Everybody in the state of Minnesota claims they were supposed to be on the bridge at that moment.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Looks like one of those golf cart bridges at a golf course.

 

[cosmo1]

The county bridges usually have signs saying the reduced weight limit though. I still wouldn't trust some of them in a heavy truck that was supposedly under the limit.

I didn't realize you moved to my county.

 

[rod]

Fun Fact: Everybody in the state of Minnesota claims they were supposed to be on the bridge at that moment.

Not me. I avoid "the big city" like the plague. There is nothing in Mpls/St.Paul that interests me enough to fight the traffic. About all I ever do is drive 494 to get around it.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Not me. I avoid "the big city" like the plague. There is nothing in Mpls/St.Paul that interests me enough to fight the traffic. About all I ever do is drive 494 to around it.

I was in Eagan Friday-Tuesday. Traffic was a dream compared to here

 

[cosmo1]

Looks like one of those golf cart bridges at a golf course.

Some of those scare the crap out of me.

Two inches of clearance on either side, and rickety.

 

[upschuck]

Fun Fact: Everybody in the state of Minnesota claims they were supposed to be on the bridge at that moment.

I was at myrtle beach, eating breakfast, when I first saw the story

 

[oldngray]

I didn't realize you moved to my county.

I forgot how much more primitive things were in a Commonwealth.

 

[cosmo1]

I forgot how much more primitive things were in a Commonwealth.

Much nicer and cleaner than western Ohio.

 

[Future]

Looks like one of those golf cart bridges at a golf course.

Ya settle down ..Tompkins

 

[Operational needs]

I was in Eagan Friday-Tuesday. Traffic was a dream compared to here

So as a FT Sup, would you consider that an avoidable or unavoidable accident if there are multiple addresses on the road and no weight restriction signs at the bridge?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

no you'd be stupid to



fyi upstate NY has a ton of bridges like that

Uh.......nope.

 

[TearsInRain]

Uh.......nope.

near rochester it does

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

near rochester it does

Is Rochester still there? I thought they closed up shop after Kodak went out of business.

 

[cosmo1]

Is Rochester still there? I thought they closed up shop after Kodak went out of business.

I've been to Rochester a number of times this summer.

It is alive and thriving, including Kodak. Certainly moreso than Plattsburgh.

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

I've been to Rochester a number of times this summer.

It is alive and thriving, including Kodak. Certainly moreso than Plattsburgh.

I've been to Rochester several times. Cool town.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

So as a FT Sup, would you consider that an avoidable or unavoidable accident if there are multiple addresses on the road and no weight restriction signs at the bridge?

I would have to see it for myself before making that call.