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The number that describes working here is not the crew, though. It is 11.7.

Sixteen are coded below legal loads, and every one of the sixteen is county-maintained. The lowest operating rating among them is 10.8 metric tonnes — under the 11.0-tonne tare of an empty tandem dump, so no commercial vehicle crosses it at all. The next one up, the lowest that admits a commercial vehicle, is rated 11.7 tonnes.

Over the tare, 11.7 tonnes leaves about 0.7 tonnes of stone. Seven hundred kilogrammes, against the twenty-five tonnes a legal 80,000 lb truck carries. That crossing is open to a loaded truck only in the most technical sense; in practice it is a crossing you route around, and the nearest of the sixteen is 1.37 miles from the pit.

Across Ray County 29 of 100 county-maintained structures fail the load test. That is sixteenth of the 109 Missouri counties with at least twenty of their own, against a state rate closer to one in eight.

That county figure is the thing to hold on to when somebody describes a machine by the metro it worked out of. Within the eight counties measured around here the share of county-maintained structures failing the load test runs from 1.1 per cent in Jackson County, a hundred and sixth of the 109, to the 29.0 per cent in Ray County that ranks sixteenth. The two are about forty miles apart across the Missouri River.

Part of the Jackson County figure is a denominator problem recorded separately for that county. But Clay County is metropolitan too and posts a quarter of what it maintains, twenty-second of the same list, so the denominator does not explain the range on its own. Pettis County runs about 21.9 per cent and Saline County about 23.8.

So this market spans a county that restricts almost nothing it owns and a county that restricts nearly a third, with a river between them that has few crossings. Two trucks can both be honestly described as having worked out of Kansas City and have had completely different lives.

What that means for a machine off this side of the river is a lot of part loads and a lot of deliberate routing. The restricted crossings here constrain which way a load goes and how much it carries when it goes that way. A route that avoids them carries a full load and costs mileage; a route that uses them carries a part load. The wear lands on running gear and brakes, and the engine hours run ahead of the odometer.

Grain trucks and farm trucks off the river bottoms.

• The lowest crossing here that admits a loaded truck at all leaves about seven hundred kilogrammes over an empty tandem’s tare, so part loads are how the work gets done.
• It is described as a Kansas City truck.Then it is worth saying which side of the river. Jackson County restricts about one in ninety of what it maintains and Ray County nearly a third, and they are forty miles apart.