The two officers of the Torrance (Calif.) PD's Commercial Enforcement Unit mostly cite mid-size truckers for an array of violations including a truck with a 20-foot palm tree clipping electrical lines. View a gallery of some of the more unusual violations. Read the full story here. Photos courtesy of TPD.
Commercial Enforcement Violations
An excessive load of pallets and lumber are insufficiently secured to a stake-bed truck. The hot water heater also wasn't secured.
A trailer transports pallets of bricks and paving stone, none of which are secured to the vehicle.
Officer Craig Durling approaches the cab of a tractor-trailer to issue a citation and return the driver's paperwork.
A pick-up truck's brake lights, tail lights, turn signals, and rearview mirrors are covered by overloaded greenery.
A stake-bed truck creates an unsafe situation when transporting an oversized load.
An unpermitted and oversized vehicle partially blocks a city street. It created a hazard for traffic attempting to pass through.
A pick-up truck overloaded with bricks creates an unsafe condition for other motorists.
An overloaded truck can barely carry mattresses and a sofa.
Misjudging his turn, a tractor-trailer driver gets stuck in a driveway. It took almost an hour for recovery vehicles to move the truck and for the street to be reopened to traffic.
A driver uses a bungee cord to secure his defective seatbelt.
Trees clip power lines on a stake-bed truck. The driver told an officer the trees were flat on the truck's bed before he started driving.