Don't speed in Michigan
Feb 26, 2018 19:14:29 #
Feb 28, 2018 17:01:38 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
NOT TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE, BUT .....
i CAN NOT GET THIS TO ROTATE....
Oct 27, 2018 10:48:16 #
Just a regular daily driving hazard here in Michigan. Only 2 weigh stations operating in the entire state, so the big trucks destroy our roads on a regular basis. Couple that with the fact that the road contractors are not forced to stand behind their work and this is what you end up with. I've had 3 blowouts in the last year alone to go with 2 bent rims.
Oct 27, 2018 13:57:33 #
A hole that deep is not a pot hole from cars. Tires wouldn't fit into it to cause the dirt to evacuate. That had to be a sink hole or another cause being that deep and that small in circumference.
Oct 27, 2018 14:56:05 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
Michigan's infrastructure brought to you by 12 years of Governor John Engler who destroyed our mental health, education, state police, and infrastructure programs a while back and we haven't been able to recover since.
Typical of the problem with Michigan roads, and it's multi-fold:
Construction and repair, for years, was not backed up by enforced warranty clauses in contracts. In essence, contractors were off the hook the instant the concrete or asphalt set up. The pols always blame the "freeze and thaw" cycles for water penetrating the concrete joints, or asphalt cracks, but Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois all have the same "cycles", yet their roads are exemplary by comparison.
Michigan has the highest total axle weight allowance in the country. While it's at 16k per axle, up to 10 axles are allowed (total GVW = 160k). This was a sop to the steel industry, which supplied the automakers. There are any number of surface streets and roads which allow these high weights. Look at steel haulers, and they run three coils of steel per load, each one weighing 40k.
Michigan is a "destination" state; i.e. as opposed to Ohio, Indiana, etc., there's hardly any through highway traffic. Very little gasoline is sold to out of state drivers on a regular basis.
The roads were in terrible shape long before John Engler became governor. "Jenny Down The Block" followed, had her chance, and she also failed.
Oct 28, 2018 03:44:01 #
Ka2azman wrote:
A hole that deep is not a pot hole from cars. Tires wouldn't fit into it to cause the dirt to evacuate. That had to be a sink hole or another cause being that deep and that small in circumference.
Yes! Florida has found a new revenue source, exporting sinkholes! The OP shows one of the little demo models, sent for a nominal fee.
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