165-Ton Oversized Load FAILS – What Went Wrong?

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Unfortunately, road accidents are relatively common in the transportation industry. This is no different when it comes to oversized load transports, which—despite requiring meticulous planning and organization before, during, and after the move—are often the most dramatic when accidents occur, due to the sheer size of their cargo.

This was recently exemplified by an incident that took place in northeastern France. Sadly, a convoy transporting a chemical process furnace, weighing 165 tons, overturned on a busy bridge in a small French community, causing major logistical and economic disruptions. Although foreign machinery had to be brought in to resolve the situation, thankfully the issue was managed without severe consequences.

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[zapfanzapfan]

Whoever made that railing should be awarded many contracts!

[lessimpson]

Pointless video, there’s no explanation as to why one of the deck platforms flexed more than the other one!

[JimBurke]

The "why" in the title is never answered. It also seems the title was changed to "what went wrong", which is also not answered. The video itself was good, but has no answers. Clickbait.

[wickerman]

Very interesting but it doesn’t explore why the left half of bridge span failed, understanding that is important in could preventing future similarities

[pema]

"Your package has arrived, unfortunately it is a bit crumpled"!😂

[patricknewall]

Judging by the strength of the railings, I wonder if the original bridge would have withstood the weight of the load without using the span bridge?

[mrmyorky]

The point where Deck Platforms were found to be necessary was also the point where a complete rethink should have taken place.

[ericgeorgetruckgrilling]

One point that wasn't discussed was the fact that when the load dropped on the actual bridge that it probably created 2X the actual weight of the load.

[robertfraser]

This is simply poor engineering. With two panels that are lightly connected, they are basically independent structures. A slight offset of the center of gravity means more load onto one panel resulting in a higher deflection on that side. This in turn results in the rotation of the load and even more load moves onto the deflected panel. In other words a positive feedback loop. A designed in failure, especially if any little detail item let go, such as a weld line in the panel.

[cheradeninezakalwe.]

Me thinks that giving the contract to a company called “wack” is where it all went wrong!

[joeattwell]

The people who made the bridge rails needs to teach the people who made those bridge spans😂😂😂

[thetessellater]

The recovery costs seem quite low, but would have been vastly higher if it had gone over the railings into the river.

[graememcluckie]

That is a Boiler . The furnace is where the burners are.

[moonraker]

What has anyone learned from this incident? The load evidently had greater mass on the right hand side and was loaded in such a way that the mass was equally distributed on the trailer. The driver imposed an equal number of wheels on each 'bridge' section. These conclusions from the video evidence suggest that the left 'bridge' element (as viewed from the driver's perspective) suffered a catastrophic failure. The design of a pre-stressed, unsupported beam must have been calculated with a safety margin, so why did it fail??? Please find out and let us all know.

[PeterMullinger]

It's not a furnace but a water tube boiler!

[gerardlardner]

It's a steam boiler. The 'galvanized sheets' are a thin cladding to cover the insulation on the boiler. Only the part overhanging the side of the trailer is the - relatively light - furnace. And yes, it is top heavy.

[Mike_Orozco]

That oversized load tipping on the bridge in Nancy was intense. Glad the driver made it out okay

[dacartrainguy]

It's quite concerning to see how the steel bridge, that was supposed to protect the actual road bridge, have collapsed under the weight of the load.
I've saw other videos of this load where they just showed the truck climbing on the ramp, and I was already sceptical about that "safety bridge". Then my concerns got true when first videos of the accident starts to pop out

[juliogonzo]

Not that the driver did anything wrong but kinda shocked a 22yo was hauling oversized loads. That type of driving is usually done by drivers with much more experience

[xSciMania]

How scary it was to have been on the truck at that moment…