Nairobi, Nov. 22 -- Used truck buyers may find themselves facing hefty fines from the Kenya National Highways Authority for overloading offences committed by the trucks long before they acquired them.
KeNHA, whose virtual weighstations on major highways capture vehicle number plates and images of the overloaded trucks and send them to the agency's control center where they are kept for up to seven years, says many owners are caught unawares when the trucks are impounded and charged for past overloading offences. The fines can run into millions of shillings.
There are 13 unmanned weighstations across the country that allow overloaded trucks to pass but record their details, which are then used by KeNHA's mobile patrol units to trace the tr...