Statehouse legislation around the nation would create weigh-in-motion programs. Related efforts elsewhere focus on funding for weigh stations.
Weigh-in-motion devices capture axle weights and the gross vehicle weight of moving trucks. Vehicles do not need to be stopped to be weighed.
Advocates have said the technology offers a more efficient method to weigh vehicles and provides useful data.
In 2023, New York authorized a first-in-the-nation truck weight enforcement rule. The law permits an automated enforcement program on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
