It was almost inevitable - because you had an upgrade there - that some overloaded truck would stall by the tanks.

They travel in old, overloaded trucks that often break down during the long journey through the desert.

Then came the overloaded trucks, the valves on the aged engines clattering in complaint.

In Missouri, overloaded trucks have resulted in the collapse of three rural bridges since January.

On the way, Rocinante, Steinbeck's overloaded truck, had a flat tire and he had to change it in a rainstorm.

The exodus has come on foot, inside packed minibuses and atop overloaded trucks.

Taking the top prize for spot news is a head-on shot of a heavily overloaded truck in East Java taken at the precise moment it keeled over.

He added, however, that for the last year it had been possible for drivers to buy permits to run overloaded trucks on many highways legally.

"Common sense would suggest that when you run overloaded trucks, you're going to cause damage to the highways and bridges," Sergeant Sleurs said.

The current structure was built about 1890 and was closed after the Anne Arundel span of the bridge collapsed due to an overloaded truck, circa 1960.