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2026-04-22 22:00
Bridge Clearance Data API for Fleet Routing
If you're routing commercial vehicles, you need to know which bridges your truck can't clear. The FHWA National Bridge Inventory has 621,000 bridges with height and weight data — but it's buried in an ArcGIS FeatureServer with pagination limits and cryptic field codes.
Road511 normalizes all of it into one queryable API. Plus state-level bridge inventories from PA, OH, TX, VA, NY, FL, WA, and IN ...