Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has directed the National Highway Authority (NHA) to amend its legal framework within one week to strengthen enforcement of the axle load control regime and introduce artificial intelligence-based monitoring of overloaded and law-breaking vehicles on motorways.
The directive was issued during a high-level meeting chaired by the minister to review the axle load control regime, attended by senior officials from the NHA, Motorway Police, National Logistics Cell (NLC), and Frontier Works Organisation (FWO).
Briefing the meeting, officials reported nearly 30,000 axle load violations over the past six months. In response, Khan ordered NHA to remove legal and operational bottlenecks by amending its regulatory framework within a week, and instructed that transporters be given clear guidelines on vehicle chassis design and permissible weight limits.
The minister directed that factories found fitting trucks with excess weight or heavy decorative attachments be identified and penalised, and made it mandatory for all freight vehicles to pass through weigh stations.
He further ordered that weigh stations be fully automated and that similar stations be established along GT Road, matching the network already in place on motorways.
Khan also instructed that motorways be equipped with advanced camera surveillance integrated with artificial intelligence to detect and track vehicles violating load regulations in real time.
He announced plans to personally inspect ten motorway locations to assess compliance with the axle load regime, and noted that a state-of-the-art, internationally standardised weigh station at Sangjani would be completed soon.
