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OVERWEIGHT TRUCKS * USA - Trucking companies sue over ticketing by state troopers
Firms argue that fines as high as $25,000 should be thrown out
Raleigh,NC,USA -The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte,NC), by SARAH OVASKA -Jan. 15, 2008: -- State troopers are too heavy-handed when writing tickets as high as $25,000 for overweight trucks, according to several trucking and heavy equipment companies that have sued to overturn the patrol's system of assessing fines... Six companies have filed lawsuits in Wake County against the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, which oversees the highway patrol... They claim that troopers are illegally using lesser violations as a basis to decide that special permits for heavy trucks are totally invalid, allowing the steep fines... Patrol officials are unapologetic... Since troopers got the authority to issue penalties to overweight trucks in 2004, they've assessed $38.8 million in fines, according to Lt. Everett Clendenin, the patrol's spokesman. The money eventually goes to school systems... Clendenin said the high fines are meant as a deterrent...
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