The recently imposed regulations on truckers using the nation’s highways have provided material for the Traffic and Transportation Safety Agency (Digesett) to issue some 22,000 tickets to truckers breaking these new rules. As any driver knows well, the “I did not know that” does not work well in traffic violations.
General Ernesto Rafael Rodriguez Garcia, the head of Digesett, said that 12,259 violations were issued for a lack of proper lights; another 2,759 fines were issued for carrying people on top of the freight, and over 1,000 were issued for having very poor/bald tires. Over 4,000 were cited for traveling in the left lane, something now prohibited by the new regulations. These regulations, which went into effect in January, indicate that all heavy trucking must stay in the right lane and comply with the ruling that sets the maximum speed at 70 km/hr.
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El Nacional
15 April 2019