Canadian truckers fined $84,000

Canadian truckers fined $84,000
Friday, November 02, 2007
By Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
State troopers on Thursday handed out $84,295 in fines to truckers from a Canadian company hauling oversized loads without permits on a winding two-lane road in Somerset County.

Acting on complaints about a company hauling big loads after hours without permits, a Greensburg-based state police commercial vehicle enforcement team stopped a truck on Mt. Davis Road that was hauling the base tower for a windmill.

As officers were inspecting the vehicle, six more showed up, all without the right permits. Troopers called in extra officers from Greensburg who, en route to the scene, came across another rig on Route 219 in Somerset County.

The trucks belonged to Transport Bellemare International, Inc., from Quebec.

Troopers inspected all eight loads and found them all to be too heavy, too tall and too wide to be traveling without the proper oversize permits.

Police issued 50 citations in all.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07306/830626-100.stm

The story does not say where the oversize Windmill Units were made at. Pickup point or destination.

Seems this is a case of a "Communication problem". French could not understand the american english fine print. I wonder if they could get the governments involved? Appeal the hefty fine.

Take a load into Canada, they understand just fine.