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I stand corrected! I mistook the red boom truck as the semi pulling the trailer and thinking it was a single axle semi. I think the green truck seen in the distance is the correct semi like Meneer Hansen said. I also don't think the driver should have been sited for taking a different route but the person who loaded and/or secured the load should be sited. The bucket would have to be resting on the goose neck making the boom quite a bit higher than the usual 15' overpasses. Maybe somebody was in the cab of the excavator and got tired of seeing the traffic behind them? Also, the speed still didn't have to be that fast and if Kansas hasn't changed their speed for trucks, 70 mph is still slow enough to do that kind of damage. I've seen trucks hauling 14' trailers tear down entire 12' 3" overpasses while doing 55 mph and ripping off their trailer roofs. Thank goodness I wasn't one of them.