Highest Challan Under New MV Act Comes From Odisha, Truck Driver Fined Rs 86,000!

A truck driver in Odisha¡¯s Sambalpur district, was fine a whopping Rs 86,500 for violating several traffic rules last week, probably the biggest fine so far the amended Motor Vehicles Act.

Truck driver Ashok Jadav was fined on September 3 while he was behind the wheels of a truck with the registration number NL01 G1470

Jadav was penalised for allowing an unauthorised person to drive (Rs 5,000), driving without a licence (Rs 5,000), overloading with an excess of 18 tonne (Rs 56,000), carrying over dimension projections (Rs 20,000) and general offence (Rs 500).

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Though the total fine amount was Rs 86,500, the driver paid Rs 70,000 after negotiating with authorities for more than five hours, Sambalpur¡¯s regional transport officer Lalit Mohan Behera said.

The truck belonging to a Nagaland-based company BLA Infrastructure Private Limited was loaded with a JCB machine. It was on its way to Chhattisgarh from Talcher town of Angul district when it was intercepted by officials in Sambalpur.

Earlier, there have been a number of incidents where violators were slapped with fines running into tens of thousands under the new laws.