Woman Driving Truck Didn’t Know How To Calculate Pounds into Tons- Takes Her 60,000 Pound Truck Over a 6 Ton Maximum Bridge – IOTW Report

Woman Driving Truck Didn’t Know How To Calculate Pounds into Tons- Takes Her 60,000 Pound Truck Over a 6 Ton Maximum Bridge

This picture says it all.

Paoli Police told Lambright her vehicle and trailer weighed  30 tons. The weight limit on the bridge was six tons

35 Comments on Woman Driving Truck Didn’t Know How To Calculate Pounds into Tons- Takes Her 60,000 Pound Truck Over a 6 Ton Maximum Bridge

  1. As I was explaining the situation to my son (he’s across the room) he gasped and within seconds said, “That’s THIRTY tons!!” In seconds he knew what in how many weeks of driving school she couldn’t figure out.

    He’s TWELVE!!!!!

    Even the covering part of the bridge alone would make me hesitate.

  2. Truck driver destroys historic bridge by driving his 30-ton trailer across it – because he got his math wrong and didn’t know he was FIVE TIMES over the weight limit

    To all New Yorkers, IT”S A TRAP!! DON”T READ THIS OUT LOUD !!

    It’s a $250,000.00 fine just waiting for you!

  3. The article said “an Amish” woman. What does that have to do with the fact that she doesn’t know math and can”t read? I’m surprised that more of these accidents don’t happen. Her next job will be at McDonalds or working on an Amish farm.

  4. Although some Facebook commenters blamed the driver, many others blamed the school that certified her and the company that allowed her to get behind the wheel.

    One person wrote: ‘I would look into the trucking school or trucking company that sponsored her training.

    ‘How do you go thru CDL school and get certified and not know the very basics of weight and/or the weight of even your empty truck and trailer which is still too heavy?’

    Ayuh. I think it was one company’s policy to pair newbie drivers with me until I quit them. Didn’t they tell you not to use the jake downhill on snowpack? was one of the better ones. Not a lot of sleep.

  5. Hey guys. My best girlfriend drives big rigs and has never done something stupid like this. I submit it’s not the sex, but the stupidity that causes stunts like this.

  6. I have to go with the Driver that asked how did she or does anyone get their CDL without doing this as second nature. 13′ height limit…80,000 pounds weight limit for a standard truck. 40 tons Same thing. so a 6 ton limit…12,000 pounds…probably her tractor weighed that much alone and the trailer empty around 32,000 give or take a couple of thousand pounds. Other than that you are doing OW/OD and if a driver is doing that they certainly have their STUFF UP. If a driver doesn’t know what I have put in six small lines they have no business in the drivers seat of an 18-wheeler.

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