[The signs] are placed along Hurricane Road at the last major intersection before arriving at the bridge crossing. Basically, there’s no way to miss them.

The reporter overestimates most truck drivers' situational awareness.

So when is the driver getting charged for vandalism and littering?

Read the actual article. This was a commercial vehicle that was hauling gravel. I think most folks are assuming it was some dumbass in a lifted truck with a few MAGA stickers on the back. That’s not the case.

The driver is still at fault for ignoring the posted weight limits, but it’s not like he was driving a personal vehicle, as much as we’d all love to see a some of these massive trucks and SUVs go through a bridge.

So some facts here:

• Commercial truck carrying gravel
• This was a rebuilt bridge, not a historic one
• The owner of the construction company has proactively offered to pay for repairs
• Yes, the driver is am idiot and made a mistake, and is probably going to hear about it for the rest of their lives.

I just googled "Ford 750". No way this shit exists for real, seems like a Hot Wheels

one less wankpanzer on the road, just a shame a bridge had to be put in harms way to do so.

The actual article https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine

Fun fact: school buses in the US are legally allowed to ignore posted weight limits on bridges. While this may seem particularly insane, usually on bridges the posted weight limit is not the weight that will make the bridge instantly collapse, it's the weight that if regularly exceeded by crossing vehicles will cause undue wear and require the bridge to be repaired or replaced sooner than it otherwise would have been. School buses are infrequent enough (and relatively light enough, even despite the child obesity epidemic) that they don't create a significant problem.

On a wooden bridge like this, though, the same logic does not apply. I sure wouldn't cross it in my school bus, but the height limit would preclude that anyway.

I swear to god, the Ford F-750 looks like if you had asked AI to design the biggest lifted pickup specifically for the dudes with fragile masculinities and court-mandated anger management classes.

Cue car brains complaining about how their mini tanks must be supported by all infrastructure

Is this the plot to beetlejuice 2?

What an asshole. There's no way they didn't know they were overweight either. Maybe they couldn't see the sign through all their 'rolling coal'.

Probably thought the weight limit was a suggestion and not a hard constraint. Yikes

For once, an article reporting an "overweight Ford" causing a mess isn't referring to a politician in Ontario.

Posted weight limits were possibly ignored

(Emphasis added)

I think we can rule out any other possibility. Either they didn’t know the weight of their truck and ignored the weight limit, or they did know the weight of their truck and ignored the weight limit. Either way, they ignored the weight limit.

I lived by a historic covered bridge as a kid. The people in the area would have been PISSED if something like this happened. The bridge was originally designed for horses and buggies, so if your vehicle weighed too much, you couldn't go on it.