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Truck Offences * Canada - Municipal trucks grind up streets
Overloaded. City fined $16,000 over two years
Montreal,Quebec,Canada -The Gazette, by LINDA GYULAI -7 July 2008: -- Even as the city of Montreal steps up its pothole-eradicating efforts, its own overloaded city trucks appear to be a major culprit in beating up the streets... More than half of the tickets provincial highway patrols have issued against the city since 2006 have been for overloaded trucks, The Gazette discovered in a review of roadside inspection reports from the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec... Overloaded trucks cause cracks in the road, which lead to potholes, experts say. They also cause rutting, leaving uneven road surfaces, the experts say... By comparison, less than one-quarter of truck offences across the province involve excess weight, the SAAQ says... (Photograph by : Allen McInnis/The Gazette - Dump truck enters the environmental complex where trucks have been caught violating weight limits) Labels: trucks fines
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