Synchronized weighing of trucks set in Pampanga

SAN FERNANDO CITY— Provincial officials of Pampanga called for the synchronization of weighing standards and procedures for trucks using roads in the province like those from the Cordillera which supply around 75 percent of vegetables in Metro Manila.

This developed as lawyer Andres Pangilinan, Jr., provincial administrator, and Arthur Punsalan, head of the Environment and Natural Resources Office, presided over a meeting of truckers and agencies concerned in the maintenance of provincial, municipal, and barangay roads.

Before the meeting, not one among the trucks weighed using the digital weighing scales met with the allowable weight capacity.

Gov. Lilia G. Pineda and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan had agreed with truckers associations in Pampanga and other Central Luzon provinces that their load per truck be weighed and an additional P30 be charged to come up with weigh bridges in strategic places provincewide.

Punsalan said “we need to protect our roads from damage wrought by overloaded vehicles even as we protect the rights of truckers to fair fees”.

In a follow-up meeting called by the provincial government, Pangilinan stressed the importance of properly implementing the law on anti-overloading.