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Pepe's Towing in Los Angeles reports asphalt collapses where loaded semitrailers are parked with the landing gear down. On hot days the concentrated load of the
by Animats 3mo ago
Pepe's Towing in Los Angeles reports asphalt collapses where loaded semitrailers are parked with the landing gear down. On hot days the concentrated load of the landing gear sometimes punches through the asphalt.[1]
This is why truck dock areas are usually paved with concrete.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrULmCGJfc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrULmCGJfc
- andrewflnr 3mo agoMotorcycle riders also report their sidestands sinking into asphalt on very hot days, to the extent that many of them carry some kind of wide weight-spreading thing to put under the stand. Apparently a face plate (?) for an electrical junction box works great.
- pacbard 3mo agoUsually, a crushed soda can is good enough to prevent the kickstand to sync in the pavement. You can usually find a can in a random parking lot. That, or find a strip of concrete. That's why sometimes motorcycle park on the sidewalk in front of big box stores on a hot day.
- MrMember 3mo agoYep, I use a soda can and have never had any issues.
- esseph 3mo agoMy bicycle did this as kid in the summer
- jordanb 3mo agoYears ago Chicago started putting concrete pads on the road at bus stops because the busses stopping in the exact same spot repeatedly was carving ruts into the asphalt.
- cwillu 3mo agoYeah, my city is currently going through every bus stop in the city, redoing the pavement in concrete. Construction season has been nasty for us this year :p
- superb_dev 3mo agoA city I used to live in did the same thing when they refurbished all the major bus stops. I always wondered why
- bombcar 3mo agoAlso if a vehicle is stopped and the driver turns the wheel (with power steering this isn't hard) - it will eventually drill holes in asphalt - you can sometimes see this in house driveways where someone turns around.
- toasty228 3mo agoYou can even see the asphalt "waves" pushed by the buses stopping here over and over again
- Breza 3mo agoI've lived in Washington DC for 20 years and I never realized why the bus stops here are concrete! Thank you for this.
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