* Pennsylvania - Cumberland County municipalities may team up to expand truck safety enforcement
-- Borough police may soon be conducting commercial vehicle safety inspections of tractor-trailers using South Middleton Township roads... Officials in both municipalities are exploring the possibility of entering into an agreement that would greatly expand the scope of stepped-up enforcement already in place in Mount Holly Springs... If enacted, the agreement would allow borough police to conduct roadside inspections anywhere within the township limits, whereas now the inspections only take place primarily along Baltimore Avenue (state Route 34) in the borough... Tractor-trailers make up an estimated 20 percent of traffic coming into the borough, with upwards of 125 trucks moving through during peak hours, the chief said... A tractor-trailer needs a special permit to haul more than 80,000 pounds of goods. There have been trucks stopped in Mount Holly Springs hauling upwards of 100,000 pounds without a permit... The talks involving South Middleton are being driven in part by the need to expand the number of safe locations for borough police to pull over trucks for the inspections. When truckers know that safety inspections are underway along Baltimore Avenue, they alert other truckers by way of CB radio and other devices...
(Photo by Jason Malmont, The Sentinel - Mount Holly Police -A dump truck drives through the borough of Mount Holly Springs on North Baltimore Avenue on Friday afternoon. Large construction equipment and tractor-trailers are familiar sights in the borough, and Mount Holly is one of only a few area municipalities with authority to perform commercial vehicle safety inspections) -- Mount Holly Springs, PENN, USA - The Sentinel, by Joseph Cress - March 27, 2015Labels: trucks inspections
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