AKICIF: load lilmits

[Joy Beeson]

I've crossed that bridge thousands of times over the last twenty
years, but today is the first time I read the sign, or at least the
first time I noticed what it said:

Load Limit
2 axles 29 tons
3 axles 41 tons
4+ axles 40 tons

Why would four axles be allowed less weight than three axles?

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[Lowell Gilbert]

Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> writes:

> I've crossed that bridge thousands of times over the last twenty
> years, but today is the first time I read the sign, or at least the
> first time I noticed what it said:
>
> Load Limit
> 2 axles 29 tons
> 3 axles 41 tons
> 4+ axles 40 tons
>
> Why would four axles be allowed less weight than three axles?

At a guess, it's because the axles are much less widely spread.

[Kevrob]

Also, one needs teeny, tiny hands. :)

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Kevin R

[Gary McGath]

"Oh, you need little teeny eyes for reading little teeny print
Like you need little teeny hands for milking mice."
-- An old filksong

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[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <sd7me2$8jl$1...@dont-email.me>,

From the 1950s, at least. I haven't heard that one in decades.

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Vallejo, California
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