A SURVEY OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLE WEIGHTS IN
A.K. Azad*,
S. Parvez, and H.I. Abdul Wahhab
Dept. of Civil Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
and
A. H. Al-Harbi and A. R. Al-Azzam
Ministry of Communications,
ABSTRACT
With the aim of
characterizing the commercial vehicle composition and in order to examine the
overweight problem prevailing in Saudi Arabia under the imposed regulatory
controls, a four-year truck load survey was carried out using truck data
collected from the wayside weigh stations installed at various traffic
corridors. The sample size, built on a random selection, exceeded over one
million trucks. Additional field surveys were also conducted at selected
locations to obtain supplementary data and information. In this paper, the
findings of this study are presented drawing attention to the revelation that
overweight problem -still exists at an uncomfortable level, whose damaging
impact on roads and bridges cannot be ignored. Data analysis also shows that
the four provinces, Eastern, Western, Northern, and
The Arabian Journal of science and
Engineering, volume 26, Number 113, April 2001