Cracking down on overloaded trucks, Transport Safety agents and National Police stopped 500,000 trucks, ticketed 10,500 and levied $3.5 million in fines through September,

Cracking down on overloaded trucks, Transport Safety agents and National Police stopped 500,000 trucks, ticketed 10,500 and levied $3.5 million in fines through September, reports Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krykliy. Most of the overweight trucks were stopped in Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa –home to all of Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports. This year, Ukraine is spending a record $3 billion on road construction and repair. To protect new roads, the Transport Safety Service, or Ukrtransbezpeka, plans to have 54 Weigh-in-Motion automatic checking devices operating on highways by the end of this year.