KRS 189.670: Public policy as to trucks declared.

It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state that heavy motor trucks, alone or

in combination with other vehicles, increase the cost of highway construction and

maintenance, interfere with and limit the use of highways for normal traffic the reon, and

endanger the safety and lives of the traveling public, and that the regulations embodied in

this chapter with respect to motor trucks, semitrailer trucks and semitrailers are necessary

to achieve economy in highway costs, and to permit the highwa ys to be used freely and

safely by the traveling public.