Overloaded trucks in China

Going to work, average Chinese entrepreneur will load your vehicle to the limit, and even far beyond its capacity :) . Well, no, but why go back and forth twice? These photos were taken on China's roads. As you can see, "cars, skyscrapers" - a fairly common sight.



 1. Highways and bridges in China are too expensive for the shipping.


2. Sometimes the cost of transporting up to 20% of the total value of the goods.


3. It is not surprising that many companies prefer to transport their goods themselves. Moreover, as can be more economical.



4. Overload - this is a serious problem in China, and a danger to pedestrians and other drivers on the road.




5. According to authorities, 80% of all trucks on the nation's roads are overloaded.


6. These trucks are harmful to the already crumbling country roads. And in the past because of them even several bridges collapsed.


7. For months, the bridge over the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, created for vehicles heavier than 30 tons are not, drove trucks with a load in excess of 100 tons.


8. As a result, the bridge collapsed in July 2011, when it was driving a truck weighing in at 129 tons.


9. In the same month bridge in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, and another 300-meter-long arch bridge in Wuyi collapsed. But the bridge was not and 12 years old.


10. In China, about 660,000 bridges - more than any other country in the world.


11. But every year, more than a dozen of them are destroyed.


12. Overload vehicles - one of the main reasons.