Imagine being crushed by a 350k pound load while out driving. Holy moly Batman!

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    7 months ago

    The cause seems pretty obvious. Transporting an oversized load on a road that was obviously not designed to handle that kind of load safely. No public roads are really. The fact that it was even allowed on a public road is fucking appalling.

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        7 months ago

        Or how about do it with strict safety regulations and/or in smaller parts?

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        7 months ago

        Or maybe move smaller safer pieces. It is a fucking PUBLIC road, may e the kind of thing that should be permitted to be safely and completely CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC if such an obviously dangerous load needs to use it. But, I guess a little government oversight and corporate ethics is too high a price compared to those dead citizens.

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      7 months ago

      That’s why they have permitting processes that include route inspections, filed routes, and planning. Depending on the load they might have police escorts to basically shut down the roads following the load.

      Big stuff has to be moved sometimes and things can go to extreme lengths to make it happen. If they don’t go on public roads, how else can things be moved?

      In LA they moved a giant boulder to the LA County Museum of Art that had a whole documentary around it.

      Then the amount of work put in to move the space shuttle. They had to move street lights and power lines out of the way. There can be so much coordination to move big loads.

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        7 months ago

        If that had been true for this case these deaths could have been avoided. Thanks for mansplaining the very thing I was upset did not happen and did not save these people from a meaningless death.