The scheme would see volunteers patrol the town's bridge, where there is a 17.5 tonne weight limit, to record the registration plates of any offending vehicles.

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Police spokesman Joe Baeza says they introduced a scheme whereby motorists could register their car number plates into a police database and this empowered patrol cars to stop these cars if they were spotted late at night, to verify the owners.

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