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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?
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 straight up thought this was AI generated...wtf
Allow me to show you something I was stopped behind in downtown Nashville last week…
How the fuck is putting everyone in undue danger legal? You’re free to put other people in harms way.
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.
makes me genuinely laugh
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.
I just googled "Ford 750". No way this shit exists for real, seems like a Hot Wheels
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
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.
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.
Tim Burtony soundtrack intensifies.
Probably thought the weight limit was a suggestion and not a hard constraint. Yikes
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.
The average truck driver doesn't think rules apply to him.
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.
lol sounds about right
