“Like so many rural communities, my county is hard pressed to find the next nickel to keep up with our road and bridge maintenance,” said Cleveland County Commissioner Rod Cleveland. “Let me be clear, we’re nowhere close to being able to keep up now, but bigger trucks would incur such incredible infrastructure costs that I don’t see how we’d recover.”

Oklahoma ranked behind Iowa and Pennsylvania in bad bridges, according to the group. The state had nearly 11% of its bridges ranked as poor.”