The Illinois Soybean Association says bridge bundling could help speed up repairs of worn-down rural bridges.
Carmi, Illinois farmer Tim Scates tells Brownfield as bridges deteriorate, load limits are lowered, costing farmers time and fuel.
“Some bridges are just completely out and then some of them they have lowered the load limit on them to where we can’t drive over them with our trucks or semis that are loaded with grain coming from the field.”
Scates is an at-large director for ISA and says they have created a bridge bundling toolkit for county and township officials to save time and taxpayer dollars on bridge repairs.
