Commonwealth v. Liver

WIEAND, Judge:

The issue to be decided in this appeal is whether the penalty for an overweight vehicle can legally be imposed upon the operator of a vehicle who, although authorized to haul an overweight load along a specified route, has operated his overweight vehicle on an unauthorized highway. We conclude that the operator of an overweight vehicle under such circumstances may be punished as though he did not have a permit to haul an overweight load.

On May 16, 1985, William L. Liver was operating a vehicle, with an oversized and overweight load, on U.S. Route 119 in Westmoreland County, when…