Gov. Jodi Rell says the first day of a special statewide commercial truck inspection program has turned up hundreds of violations.
Thirty inspectors were deployed to highways and other state roads for a week-long joint effort with local police in the various towns. The governor ordered the extra inspections after a tractor-trailer crashed into a furniture store at the bottom of Avon Mountain earlier this month. The accident came two years after a dump truck smashed into cars in the same location and killed four people.
Inspectors on Monday stopped 110 trucks and found 375 mechanical violations and 139 driver violations. They pulled 38 vehicles out of service and handed out more than $23,000 in fines. The biggest fine was a $13,536 ticket for an oversized vehicle stopped on Route 25 in Monroe. Inspectors found the rig did not have a required permit.
