Straight trucks have shorter outer-bridge dimensions than tractor-trailers, but using two, three or even four lift axles compensates. This is why it takes six or seven axles to carry what a semi ...

As a four-post lift bridge, the entire thing is raised, straight up, as necessary to let boats pass under its span. ... "That kept the lift bridge alive. Now, it's really celebrated.

The "vertical lift" bridge proposed by MassDOT will clear the way for passing vessels by raising the roadway straight up between the two towers.. It will have two elevation settings - one at 80 ...

It turns out it’s not that easy to find replacement parts for a bridge built in 1931. Crews working on the $8.7 million rehabilitation of the Stillwater Lift Bridge had to ship its four huge ...

Bayou Lafourche-Gold Mead Bridge. This tower drive with connected towers vertical lift bridge has significance as a movable bridge and as an important variation within the vertical lift bridge type.