OKLAHOMA CITY — The state Corporation Commission processed more than 487,750 vehicles across weigh scales in June.
Those included 93,566 vehicles weighed on static scales at the state’s four ports of entry.
Almost 394,200 Class 5 and higher classification vehicles were screened by weigh-in-motion scales (strips in the pavement that weigh trucks without them having to stop) at the ports of entry in Beckham County (Interstate 40 west), 123,040 vehicles; Kay County (Interstate 35 north), 77,207 vehicles; Sequoyah County (Interstate 40 east), 84,787 vehicles; and Love County (Interstate 35 south), 109,161 vehicles.
A Class 5 vehicle has a gross weight rating of 16,001 to 19,500 pounds.
Citations issued in June at the ports of entry numbered 3,234, including Beckham County POE, 786; Kay County POE, 836; Sequoyah County POE, 712; and Love County POE, 900.
The Corporation Commission’s Transportation Division issued 4,147 citations in June to motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles, division attorney Darren Ferguson reported. Those tickets produced almost $860,000 in fines, ledgers show.
The greatest number of tickets, 1,303 of them, were issued to overweight vehicles. The next biggest categories were failure to carry/present vehicle registration or a fuel license decal, 637 citations; failure to register a commercial vehicle, 437 citations; and not having a current fuel license or decal, 377 tickets.
One-fourth of the tickets, 1,034 of them, were issued to vehicles licensed in Texas; operators of California-registered vehicles received 448 tickets; Illinois, 385; Oklahoma, 287; Florida, 191; Ohio, 180; Arkansas, 101; Missouri, 989; Kansas, 71; and New Mexico, 14.
Vehicles registered in 35 other states accounted for most of the rest of the citations. However, citations also were issued to 67 vehicles registered in Canada.
None of these statistics include numbers from the state’s smaller weigh stations in Cimarron County near the interchange of US-287 and US-412/US-64 in Boise City; on Interstate 35 near Davis, in Murray County; and on Interstate 40 in Canadian County, between Yukon and El Reno, according to Matt Skinner, the commission’s public information manager.
A weigh station at Colbert on US-69 that connects Durant, Oklahoma, and Denison, Texas, has been converted into the Bryan County Port of Entry and is scheduled to open August 28, Skinner said.