The National Highway Authority has warned the long-distance vehicles travelling to the great lakes and beyond of flouting rules on gross weight.
Speaking at Gilgil 's weighbridge in Gilgil Sub-county on Saturday, Axle Load Control Manager Muita Ngatia, said that lack to respect the rule by drivers is damaging the road network in the country.
Muita further said that the destruction of Kenyan roads by overloading trucks has had a negative impact on the lives of Kenyans lost through road carnage.
“Poor states of the roads are the major causes of accidents, these trucks are really damaging the roads, especially those that carry excessive weight,” said Muita.
He urged the drivers to respect the Axle rule, failure to which they risked fines and prosecutions.
The agency has been implementing Axle load rule that requires the weight of cargo in a truck to be determined on axle basis.
However, Peter Maina, a long distance truck driver said that the regulation and the implementation of the load axle rule has frustrated investors.
He further added that the capacity of loading should be determined by the cargo.
“Some of the cargo like fuel can’t be weighed per axle, it would be easy to have the cargo determine the capacity,” said Maina.
He noted that trucks ferrying fuel should be pegged on 48-tonne gross weight.
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