The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has started sensitizing county governments on axle load limits.
Speaking to drivers at Juja weighbridge station situated along the Namanga corridor, Engineer Kennedy Ndugire said that the law requires vehicles of over 3, 500Kgs and above to go through the weighbridge for weighing.
Eng. Ndugire noted that there are no vehicles that are excepted from axle load laws adding that all vehicles whether government or privately owned are supposed to go for axle load limit checks.
“You need to comply with the law, you need to use the dedicated lane for use by drivers, and the measures which authority has put in place to ensure that there is seamless and very fast weighing of this vehicles and screening at the weighbridges,” he said.
Adding; “Currently, there are no elements of traffic snarl-ups which used to be there initially. This is through the technology that has been brought by the authority of screening vehicles at high speed through the introduction of the High-Speed Weighing in motion system.”
According to Eng. Ndugire, they also demonstrated the method to the drivers which they appreciated so much.
Wilson Mburu Kangethe, Acting Chief Executive Member of Roads in Kiambu County, said that there was a need for the drivers to be sensitized about the axle load limits.
“We came with our drivers who were charged so that they can be taught why they should weigh the vehicles. The axle loads limits are not for KeNHA people neither for the county people but for the ‘Wanjiku’ and the public,” he said.
According to Edwin Njoroge, Acting Chief Officer of Roads in Kiambu County, the drivers who participated in the programme learned various aspects of how they need to observe the loading capacity, weights and penalties attributed to non-observance of the set requirements.
“The drivers have committed to make sure that they will pass through the designated weighing bridges to ensure their vehicles are weighed,” he said.
