This is in response to a Sun Journal article “Sensors reveal overloading,” printed Jan. 16. The article was about the weigh-in-motion sensors that the Maine Department of Transportation has planted in the roads around the state.

I am a truck driver, and while I will agree that there are probably a significant number of overloaded trucks on our highways, the MDOT ought to get its ducks in a line before pointing fingers at heavy trucks. Case in point: The truck that I drive weighs in at 35,860 pounds, empty. On one trip across the weigh-in-motion sensor at the Waldo-Hancock bridge, my truck weighed in at 42,300 pounds and on another trip, 47,100 pounds (empty, both times). That is a difference of up to 11,240 pounds.

The MDOT should take some of that fuel tax money and upgrade their equipment so that it can produce more accurate figures for their surveys.

George Bray, Hartford