{"id":318979,"date":"2026-08-11T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318979\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:30:12","slug":"state-police-check-your-height-know-its-right-campaign-leads-to-over-1000-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318979\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police &#8216;Check Your Height, Know It&#8217;s Right&#8217; Campaign Leads To Over 1,000 Citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York State Police Troop T participated in the \u201cCheck Your Height, Know It\u2019s Right\u201d campaign at the end of July along the New York State Thruway. The initiative\u2019s goal is to reduce bridge and overpass strikes involving commercial motor vehicles through education and targeted enforcement, according to NYSP.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"24856073-1786478741\" data-image=\"24856073-1786478741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bridgehitsweek_july-2026_overheight2_.png.jpg\" data- \/>The maximum legal vehicle height on the Thruway is 13&#8217;6&#8243;. If a vehicle is taller, a permit is required. (NYSP) <\/p>\n<p>During the initiative, Troop T\u2019s Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit conducted details throughout the state, with 348 commercial vehicle inspections. Of those, 126 vehicles were immediately taken out of service for safety-related violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Police Troop T participated in the \u201cCheck Your Height, Know It\u2019s Right\u201d campaign at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-318979","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318979","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=318979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}