Regional Transport Office staff on Sunday slapped a penalty of Rs 1.10 lakh on a truck driver for allegedly violating traffic rules under the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act in Rayagada district.
As per an official, the truck driver was not having the required road permit and tax. The truck (AP-31-TW-3249) was carrying timbers to the JK Paper Mills from Andhra Pradesh.
On Saturday, the State Transport Authority (STA) had asked ths district Collectors, SPs and DCPs (Traffic) to enforce road safety rules across the State from March 1.
Transport Commissioner Sanjeeb Panda directed the officials to carry out strict enforcement against dangerous and life threatening road safety violations.
The officials were asked to check drunken driving, over speeding, red light jumping, driving against flow of traffic, using mobile phone while driving, dangerous driving, triple riding on two-wheeler, helmetless driving, not wearing seat belt and overloading.