Kenya National Highways Authority has registered a significant drop in axle load offenders at critical entry points.
Data from the Authority’s command center rates the compliance rate at 95% with a majority of the offenders being non-transit trucks.
The Kenya National Highways Authority is set to construct additional virtual weighbridges in Western Kenya.
This comes after increased activities in the areas led to a sharp rise in lorries dodging the weigh-bridges.
Virtual weighbridges as special scales build on roads and can detect the weight of a moving vehicle without them having to check in to weighbridges.
These virtual scales flag overloaded trucks and relay the information to control centers where KeNHA can then divert the truck to the nearest weighbridge or deploy a mobile unit to confirm the overload.
Last month, Principal Magistrate Chrispine Oruo and Resident Magistrate Susan Mutava received a delegation from KENHA & the NPS Traffic Department.
The officials visited Rongo Weighbridge to conduct sensitization of Weighbridge operations.
The Judiciary vowed to clamp down on overloading by ensuring culprits are fined according to the EAC Schedule.
