{"id":42468,"date":"2025-12-29T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicles-stopped-and-inspected-for-load-compliance-at-the-tmpd-weighbridge-in-akasia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:22:04","slug":"vehicles-stopped-and-inspected-for-load-compliance-at-the-tmpd-weighbridge-in-akasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/vehicles-stopped-and-inspected-for-load-compliance-at-the-tmpd-weighbridge-in-akasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicles stopped and inspected for load compliance at the TMPD Weighbridge in Akasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TMPD Overload Control Unit (OCU) conducted an intensified operation on R101, targeting heavily loaded vehicles. Several vehicles were stopped and inspected for load compliance at the TMPD Weighbridge in Akasia on Sunday, 28 December 2025<\/p>\n<p>The importance of ensuring that vehicles are not overloaded cannot be overstated, as the extra weight can cause damage to the vehicles components, putting the safety of the driver and other road users at risk, leading to accidents.<\/p>\n<p>The TMPD remains resolute in rooting out any disregard of the law on the roads. These continuous festive season operations are crucial in promoting road safety and ensuring compliance with road traffic regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by the TMPD Communication Unit<\/p>\n<p>#TMPDSafety&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75925&#038;page=vehicles-stopped-and-inspected-for-load-compliance-at-the-tmpd-weighbridge-in-akasia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TMPD Overload Control Unit (OCU) conducted an intensified operation on R101, targeting heavily loaded vehicles. Several vehicles were stopped and inspected for load compliance at the TMPD Weighbridge in Akasia on Sunday, 28 December 2025 The importance of ensuring that vehicles are not overloaded cannot be overstated, as the extra weight can cause damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42469,"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\/604847833_1323727483115976_4048561178779874642_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/604847833_1323727483115976_4048561178779874642_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42468","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=42468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}