{"id":318901,"date":"2026-08-11T19:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318901\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:46:13","slug":"966-violations-issued-during-thruway-commercial-vehicle-safety-campaign-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318901\/","title":{"rendered":"966 Violations Issued During Thruway Commercial Vehicle Safety Campaign | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"New York State Police\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/67a50c2d274ac.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; New York State Police focused on commercial vehicle safety as part of the \u201cCheck Your Height, Know It\u2019s Right\u201d campaign along the New York State Thruway.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign took place at the end of July with a\u00a0goal to reduce bridge and overpass strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative included 348 commercial vehicle inspections by Troop T\u2019s Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit. Of those, 126 vehicles were immediately taken out of service for safety-related violations.<\/p>\n<p>State Police issued a total of 966 violations, including five for over-height vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers also handed out 189 uniform traffic tickets for speeding, lack of seatbelt or restraints, cellphone use, registration and license issues and other violations.<\/p>\n<p>NYSP stated that over the last five years, more than 375 bridge strikes have been recorded on the Thruway system.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum legal vehicle height on the Thruway is 13 feet 6 inches. Vehicles taller than this require a permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. &#8212; New York State Police focused on commercial vehicle safety as part of the \u201cCheck Your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,747,27070,8938,19976,120248],"class_list":["post-318901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-new-york-state-thruway","tag-state-police","tag-thruway","tag-troop-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}