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Truck Violations * USA - Officials mum on overweight ones
A third of big rig trucks on Florida's highways are operating illegally overweight. Ocala,FL,USA -Ocala.com/Star-Banner, by FRED HIERS -13 Jan 2008: -- ... But despite that, Florida lawmakers behave like the three monkeys of a Japanese myth: They see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil... Highway safety advocates say it's an important issue. That's because studies and transportation experts charged with enforcing weight limit laws estimate that as many as 30 percent of tractor-trailers and dump trucks on Florida's roads are breaking weight laws in order to boost profits... In Florida, chances are slim that authorities will even catch most overweight trucks, and if they do, the penalties are laughable... That's because state lawmakers haven't raised the nickel-per-pound fine charged overweight trucks since its inception in 1953, and the Florida Department of Transportation, the agency charged with enforcing weight laws, is grossly understaffed... Finally, regardless of how often trucking companies violate the law, they never risk losing their licenses to operate as long as they pay their fines... Some trucking companies operating in Florida get caught violating those laws hundreds of times a year with no change in their behavior, FDOT records show... (Photo by BRUCE ACKERMAN/STAR-BANNER/2007 FILE - Sgt. Quincy Linan, of the Florida Department of Transportation Law Enforcement, places scales under the tires of a semi-trailer he was weighing on North U.S. 441 in Ocala on Oct. 1, 2007)
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