Identifying overweight commercial vehicles is often a difficult task. To enforce weight laws, Indiana operates a small number of static weigh stations located near state borders on primary routes and deploys mobile commercial vehicle enforcement vehicles equipped with portable scales to weigh chosen vehicles on interior routes. The mobile officers have no tools other than their own experience to determine which vehicles might be overweight and pulled over to be weighed using the portable scales. The Virtual Weigh Station (VWS) uses existing fixed weigh-in-motion (WIM) scales along with other in-cabinet and in-vehicle equipment to provide a realtime weight data to officers without leaving their vehicle. The VWS will increase the efficiency of enforcement efforts and help reduce the number of overweight vehicles on Indiana's highways.
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