Heavy -load controls: wooden transporters with 12 tons of overweight stopped!

Heavy -load controls: wooden transporters with 12 tons of overweight stopped!

On January 29, 2025, the heavy-duty control group of the Trier police headquarters as part of the controls of commercial freight transport on Bundesstraße 327 found a serious violation of the steering and rest periods as well as excessive overcharges. These measures aim to increase traffic safety and to ensure the proper transport of goods.

A wooden transporter was particularly striking, the total height of 4.31 meters clearly exceeded the permitted maximum height of four meters. In addition, a first evaluation showed that the vehicle was overweight according to the axle load system. A weighing on a bridge scale that has a maximum load of 50 tons was not possible, since the total weight was almost 52 tons, according to the police's own cycling scales. With this, wood transport was overweight of 12 tons.

Significant fines and legal measures

Due to this massive overload, the continued journey of the wooden transport was immediately prohibited, and almost half of the spruce trunks had to be unloaded. A fine procedure was initiated against the driver, and there was another procedure against the responsible company to collect the freighter proceeds, such as rhein-zeitung.de . The police also found that a supporter of the transport was clearly overloaded because the axle -load ad showed warning signals on overload. The total weight on the bridge scale exceeds 54 tons, which meant an overload of over 14 tons that made up more than 30 percent of the permitted weight.

The drivers of both transports have to expect significant fines. According to the data of Agrarheute.com , a procedure is also initiated against the responsible company that is responsible for compliance with the weight standards. A large part of the overloaded wood was spread over two other transports that night.

violations of social regulations

In addition to the overload, numerous violations of the social regulations also came to light during the controls. A total of eight reports were drawn up and another fine procedure for overtaking was opened. These measures illustrate the extensive security audits that have to be carried out in commercial freight transport in order to protect both drivers and other road users.