{"id":39923,"date":"2025-10-02T00:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/urgent-rti-operation-in-weighbridges-targeting-trucks-and-undocumented-foreign-nationals-along-the-n3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:17:36","slug":"urgent-rti-operation-in-weighbridges-targeting-trucks-and-undocumented-foreign-nationals-along-the-n3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/urgent-rti-operation-in-weighbridges-targeting-trucks-and-undocumented-foreign-nationals-along-the-n3\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent RTI Operation in Weighbridges targeting trucks and undocumented foreign nationals along the N3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N3, Escourt Weighbridge RTI Control Centre: On the first day of Transport Month, we have decided to monitor the vehicle weighing activities in various weighbridges along the N3.<\/p>\n<p>We wish to alert and invite members of the media, where possible, to attend some of the operations. <\/p>\n<p>The schedule is attached and may be adjusted to accommodate media houses.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past months, we recorded an increase in the number of fatalities and severe injuries associated with horrific accidents involving trucks.<\/p>\n<p>Most shocking is the disappearance of truck drivers of overloaded trucks. We have also picked up that some foreign national truck drivers do not have the necessary permits.<\/p>\n<p>With 177 traffic officers graduating yesterday, today they will be involved in some of the operations that will involve assessing and monitoring truck activities in weighbridges.<\/p>\n<p>They will augment various operations undertaken by our highly efficient and dedicated team from the Road Traffic Inspectorate.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly,&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74764&#038;page=urgent-rti-operation-in-weighbridges-targeting-trucks-and-undocumented-foreign-nationals-along-the-n3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N3, Escourt Weighbridge RTI Control Centre: On the first day of Transport Month, we have decided to monitor the vehicle weighing activities in various weighbridges along the N3. We wish to alert and invite members of the media, where possible, to attend some of the operations. The schedule is attached and may be adjusted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/557110740_1269896925176214_6676426533968677739_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/557110740_1269896925176214_6676426533968677739_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}