Occasionally one fights back

Historic covered bridges are under threat by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars

“Every now and then we’ll get a large camper being pulled through and those generally get damaged because the bridge will take air conditioning units right off the top,” he said.

But mostly, the old bridges are taking a real beating. And there seems to be no sure way of protecting them.

“I swear, we could take that bridge out and not replace it and people would go in the river. It’s very frustrating to think that we are that set to what something tells us to do.”