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09-20-2018, 10:25 PM
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Somebody stole the bridge...
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09-21-2018, 09:19 AM
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09-21-2018, 09:40 AM
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Then how do you explain the concrete abutment on the far side?
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09-21-2018, 02:03 PM
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"Bridge" is the new "capsize"
The headline says a bridge gave out, but the reporter on the scene says saturated ground crumbled away. Probably a culvert pipe. |
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09-21-2018, 02:07 PM
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09-21-2018, 02:37 PM
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You can see in the picture the water had come over the top on both ends of the bridge by the way the grass on the right is laid over. Looks like it washed away the road then the bridge went with no support behind the near side abutment.
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09-21-2018, 03:22 PM
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Meanwhile grass on the shoulder also implies the shoulder over the 'bridge' was dirt. Maybe a bridge was once there and replaced by a pipe that was covered by dirt. Therefore someone replaced a bridge on the cheap apparent with a pipe that was too small. Look closely at skid marks maybe 75 feet long. That trucker apparently knew something was wrong and tried to stop. |
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09-21-2018, 03:57 PM
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Let's just call it a culvert.
Next. 
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09-21-2018, 04:03 PM
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The view from the road before hand doesn't really show what is there under the roadway. You can see the guardrails get a little taller as they go over something. This is 2.95 miles north of the Chesterfield SC crossroads on RT 145.
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10-10-2018, 05:36 PM
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Truck drivers a restless, pissed off, over worked, and underpaid, so the yearly
turnover rates reflect that. Large carriers (over $27 million) = 98% Small carriers (under $27 million) = 72% Single and split load carriers = 14% Overdrive
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09-21-2018, 01:47 PM
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Bridge - Close enough for non-contrarians everywhere.™
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