OKLAHOMA CITY — Motor carrier officers of the state Corporation Commission wrote 5,440 citations in March that produced $1,050,191 in fines.
The agency’s Transportation Division officers wrote 50% more tickets in March than they did in February, records reflect.
Almost one-third of the citations, 1,700 of them, were issued to truck drivers who failed to carry their vehicle’s registration or fuel license decal. But the biggest revenue producers were the 1,252 tickets issued to overweight vehicles such as semitrailer trucks, commercial buses, and dump trucks, resulting in $316,050 in fines.
The officers issued 424 tickets for failure to register a commercial vehicle, 304 citations for failure to yield for a vehicle inspection, 128 for operating a vehicle weighing more than 80,000 pounds on an interstate highway without a necessary permit, and a variety of other infractions.
One-fourth of the citations were issued to drivers from Texas.
Infractions discovered while processing 103,358 vehicles across the static scales at the state’s four ports of entry resulted in 4,215 citations issued in March. Those included Love County POE, 1,728 tickets; Sequoyah County POE, 1,150; Beckham County POE, 689; and Kay County POE, 648 citations.
In addition, weigh-in-motion technology (strips in the pavement that weigh trucks without them having to stop) at the four ports of entry counted 408,606 vehicles in March. That number included “all Class 5 and higher vehicles,” said Matt Skinner, the commission’s public information manager. A Class 5 vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of 16,001 to 19,500 pounds.
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.