Congress is considering bills allowing trucks to exceed 80,000 pounds. That would further damage California’s aging bridges ...

BOSTON—For years, the largest city in New England has wrestled with a problem that seems easily fixable: People keep crashing tall trucks into low bridges. Nobody knows this better than the team at ...

Ask Wilkeson Mayor Jayme Peloli. Her city's lifeline, the Fairfax Bridge over the Carbon River, was shut down last year, and everything stopped.

A semi hit one of the Quad Cities’ truck-eating bridges on Wednesday. It happened around 10 a.m. on Brady Street. A semi hit the truck-eating bridge on Brady Street on September 3, 2025. (Bryan Bobb, ...

States allowed more than 500,000 overweight trucks to traverse the nation's bridges and highways at will in the past year, according to an AP review of figures in all 50 states. Those permits were ...

With tolls of up to $12 each way on the new bridges, the number of road-pounding trucks is expected to steadily increase on the Sherman Minton and Clark Memorial bridges – soaring by more than 125 ...

For the second time in a week, the Houston Avenue Bridge has been struck yet again by an oversized vehicle trying to make its ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - Multnomah County has imposed an immediate ban on semi-trucks and commercial vehicles over 19 tons traveling from the Historic Columbia River Highway onto the Stark ...

Rhode Island State Police are pushing back on numbers showing an overwhelming majority of overweight trucks are getting away with going over the Washington Bridge. The new claim from troopers comes ...

Just off Nashville Highway, in Columbia, one railroad bridge has earned quite the reputation.