Over­loaded trucks will be tick­et­ed, says Ryan Ram­per­sad, the Chair­man of the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC). Ram­per­sad was at the time over­see­ing an ex­er­cise by the CT­TRC to re­pair bad­ly dam­aged parts of Thomp­son Road, Palmiste on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Ram­per­sad said he is aware of the com­plaints by many res­i­dents that heavy and over­weight trucks are op­er­at­ing on roads not de­signed to han­dle ab­nor­mal lim­its Ram­per­sad said, “We have made com­plaints to Traf­fic Man­age­ment, we have made com­plaints to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and we are go­ing to be play­ing signs all over the ar­eas es­pe­cial­ly where you have mi­nor roads where these over­weight trucks are not sup­posed to pass.

We are go­ing to be de­ploy­ing the mu­nic­i­pal po­lice to man these ar­eas, man these ar­eas and be vig­i­lant and is­sue tick­ets where it is re­quired. We are tak­ing a se­ri­ous stance, ma­te­r­i­al is very scarce, when we do get some fund­ing and re­pair these roads, we can­not have these trucks dam­ag­ing these roads.”