Sentence examples for an oversize load from inspiring English sources

"It shouldn't take an oversize load to let us know we have an oversized problem," he said.

Yet when, on May 23rd, a cross-member of the bridge's superstructure was damaged by a passing flatbed truck carrying an oversize load, the whole span promptly collapsed.

A temporary span replaced a section of the bridge that collapsed May 23 when it was struck by a truck with an oversize load.

Eventually he lumbered out onto the pavement and ambled downhill and out of sight, taking up road space like a vehicle with an oversize load.

The driver of an oversize load that triggered an Interstate 5 bridge collapse on May 23 told investigators that he had felt crowded by a passing vehicle and moved closer to the side of the bridge that had less clearance, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.

A 160-foot section of the 58-year-old four-lane steel truss bridge, which crosses the Skagit River about an hour north of Seattle, crumpled around 7 p.m., apparently after being struck by a truck carrying an oversize load, state officials said.

About 70,000 vehicles used the half-century-old steel truss bridge every day, and the evening rush had barely ebbed when, around 7 p.m. last Thursday, a truck's oversize load struck a girder, crumpling the structure in a chain of events still being investigated by federal authorities.

In 1979, westbound at Rawlins, Wyoming, Ainsworth, in a reefer hauling pork, came up behind a "Long Load Oversize Load" surrounded by pilot cars, a press car, a spare tractor, a tire truck, mechanics, and bears.

The safety board has been looking to speak with the driver of the truck and trailer that passed the oversize load on the Skagit River, but a board spokesman said officials still had not found that driver or vehicle.

In the event, the oversize load that caused the span to collapse caught a cross-member of the bridge's lower-than-normal superstructure.

10 P.M. (A&E) SHIPPING WARS In the latest episode of this series, which follows independent truckers as they carry oddball packages and oversize loads, Jarrett Joyce hauls a rare electric sports car across the country while Marc Springer must deal with trailers that are also road hazards.