* Marlborough - Transport Agency trialling new technology to catch out overloaded trucks
--- A trial technology designed to catch out heavy trucks breaching weight requirements has been welcomed by a Marlborough truckie... The trial, being carried out by the NZ Transport Agency, will gather data from in-road Weigh-in-Motion devices to quickly and easily identify where to target compliance operations and to identify and locate overweight trucks... The Weigh-in-Motion sensors can weigh and record vehicles without stopping them, and can transmit that information directly to roading police... Veteran truck driver and Stock Lines Ltd operations manager Chris Vercoe, of Blenheim, welcomed the trial if it meant truck drivers went through less compliance checks... He said drivers could be stopped for 20 minutes or more while police checked the vehicle's weight and the driver's log books... But time was money, as drivers were limited to 10 hours of travel each day, and were often "chasing boats", Vercoe said... An NZTA spokesperson said the data sharing trial would avoid stopping trucks that were under their weight limit... About 10 per cent of freight trucks were illegally overloaded, according to the NZTA spokesperson...
(Photo by DEREK FLYNN/FAIRFAX: Stock Lines Ltd operations manager Chris Vercoe says a new trial catching overloaded trucks is a good thing for truck drivers) -- Marlborough, NZ - Stuff.co, by JENNIFER EDER - June 6 2016Labels: trucking industry news New Zealand
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