Riverside police conducted a commercial vehicle enforcement checkpoint on Central Avenue Tuesday morning, less than two weeks after a City Council committee unanimously recommended increasing fines for truck route violations from $100 to $1,000.
The Riverside Police Department announced the operation on its Facebook page Tuesday morning, saying officers from the Traffic Bureau were conducting inspections on Central Avenue until noon.
The checkpoint targeted a section of Central Avenue where commercial vehicles exceeding three axles are prohibited except for deliveries—a restriction codified in Section 10.56.050 of the Riverside Municipal Code…