Truckers cited in state police portable scale operation on Lake-Cook border

Five truck drivers received citations for overweight violations through a portable scale operation on the border of Lake and Cook counties Monday, according to Illinois State Police.

State police spokeswoman Monique Bond said the mobile scale detail ran from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. on westbound Lake-Cook Road at Rand Road, near the confluence of Palatine, Deer Park and Kildeer.

Bond said state police have been aggressively conducting the operations to raise awareness and cite violators in the motor truck carrier industry. Inspectors will be at other designated areas this week.

"We routinely work with the Illinois Department of Transportation and local law enforcement agencies to conduct scale operations and weigh the trucks," Bond told the Daily Herald.

Bond said 100 trucks were weighed during the three hours that state police were at Lake-Cook and Rand. Five overweight citations were issued.

Signs alerting drivers to the scales were posted off Lake-Cook, just west of Hicks Road. Another sign directed car drivers to the left lane and trucks to the right.

Palatine police and Community Emergency Response Team volunteers assisted state troopers. Bond said it was not the first time the portable scales were set up at Lake-Cook and Rand.