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There also is another problem not mentioned here. <br /> <br />Bridges are built for a certain weight they can support. While road would happily carry 15 klbs/axle trucks with little care for total truck weight - bridges do not. Three trucks of 80 klbs cal happily run on a bridge, but three 145 klbs trucks are too heavy for the bridge to support. This leads to a problem of increased wear, maintenence costs and may even end in a catastrophy. <br /> <br />This is the reason why european railroads do not use bethgon-like 6-axle hoppers - thousands of bridges are not built to withstand such weights.
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