The Oklahoma Highway Patrol will join its counterpart agencies and federal officials across the nation during the next 2-1/2
days to check to be sure tractor trailer drivers are operating safely.
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Patrol trooper Betsy Randolph said troopers from the patrol's size and weights unit will stop and check trucks to make sure their equipment is operating correctly and that the vehicles are not overloaded.
Troopers also will check drivers to make sure they are properly licensed and are properly maintaining log books showing the hours they have driven.
The checks are scheduled to start at 6 a.m. Tuesday, and authorities plan to continue making them until from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily until Thursday, when they will end at noon.
Checks will be made at mile marker 149 on Interstate 35 in Logan County at a rest stop, at the Davis scale house, also on I-35, at the Colbert scale house on U.S. 69, at Tiger Mountain on I-40 and at Boise City in Oklahoma's Panhandle.
