Moroccan Driver Fined for Massive 3.5-Ton Van Overload en Route to Morocco

The driver left northern France for the port of Sète where he was to board a ferry to reach Morocco. But the oversized load of the vehicle attracted the attention of the gendarmes of the motorized platoon of Charnay-lès-Mâcon. The van weighed 7.020 tons, thus exceeding the maximum threshold of 3.5 tons, reports Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire.

The vehicle was immobilized, and the driver paid a fine of 630 euros for seven overweight offenses, one for each 500 kg exceeded, the same source specifies.

"The gendarmes of the Departmental Road Safety Squadron of Saône-et-Loire are, during this summer vacation period, 24 hours a day on the departmental highway network," says Captain Nicolas Millery, commander of the EDSR of Saône-et-Loire.

"Such behaviors are very dangerous, because these vehicles are not designed to hold the road or brake safely when they are so loaded. We hunt them down as much as we do for speeding offenses!" he adds.