Riverside police cited dozens of commercial truck drivers during an October checkpoint aimed at enforcing a municipal code that restricts heavy vehicles from using certain city streets as shortcuts between freeways.
RPD conducted the inspection checkpoint in the westbound lanes of Central Avenue, just west of Victoria Avenue, in response to ongoing resident complaints about trucks with three or more axles illegally traveling on restricted roadways.
Officers inspected 16 commercial vehicles and issued 57 citations for violating the Riverside Municipal Code’s axle restriction ordinance. They also found two violations for improper use of air brakes, two for bald tires, and one unlicensed driver. One commercial vehicle and trailer was towed from the scene…