The webinar is free of charge and appropriate for Federal and non-Federal personnel.
Description
Virtual Weigh Station projects utilize advanced Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) and video technology and provide DOTs and Highway Patrols with a cost-effective tool to monitor and enforce truck weights on bypass or secondary routes and increase safety by reducing noncompliant vehicles. Virtual Weigh Stations can be used at new or existing WIM data collection sites to pre-weigh vehicles and transmit an image with the vehicles' weights and/or dimensions to an enforcement officer downstream of the WIM or to a central facility. Based on the vehicle information, vehicles suspected of being overweight can be either stopped and weighed using portable scales or can be directed to the nearest weigh station for weighing, while allowing vehicles in compliance to continue on their way. Virtual Weigh Station projects have also served as a planning tool in scheduling truck weight enforcement resources/details, both geographically and temporally (i.e., by time of day), based on the project's data.
Host:
Bill Honan, FMCSA's Midwestern Service Resource Center
