Automated Truck Weight Enforcement Comes to the Big Apple – Safety & Compliance [Video]

New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced that the nation’s first automated enforcement program against overweight trucks has been a success. Known as the Weigh-in-Motion (WIM), Rodriguez said the program has already led to a 64 percent reduction in overweight vehicles along the triple cantilever of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE).

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NYC DOT currently operates WIM enforcement on the Queens-bound portion of the BQE triple cantilever in downtown Brooklyn, a portion of the I-278 highway known as “BQE Central.”

During the first seven months of automated enforcement, a monthly average of 2,769 overweight truckscrossed the triple cantilever. Prior to the launch, a monthly average of 7,777 overweight trucks had traveled the same portion of the highway the seven months leading up to the launch …