Within ten miles of the gate the bridge file records 84 structures, of which 14 are posted for load and 17 are coded below legal loads — 20.2%. Fourteen of the seventeen are the state’s and three the county’s, and the nearest is 2.20 miles out.
Three hundred kilograms
A three-hundred-kilogram crossing, and it decides nothing
Those seventeen include an operating rating of 0.3 metric tonnes. Three hundred kilograms. It is a structure that takes a car and not much else, and it is not a truck restriction in any meaningful sense — nothing commercial has ever been able to use it.
The number that actually decides what this pit can load is 17.2 metric tonnes, about 19.0 US tons, on a state secondary road 9.34 miles out.
A rate is not a cap, and a raw minimum is not a cap either.
Stone out of the Fairfield Plant gate 3.27 miles from the middle of town, over roads whose binding crossing sits 9.34 miles out, is where a lot of it turns up.
Around the Fairfield Plant gate 3.27 miles out, and on the roads that run the 2.20 miles to the nearest posted crossing and well beyond it, the same trucks come up for sale for the same reasons.