Long distance transporters may have undergone loss running into millions of shillings after their trucks were delayed at the Mariakani weigh-bridge station for more than 72 hours. Truck drivers were delayed at the station after the ministry of Roads and Public works introduced new rules requiring that the gross weight of vehicles be measured instead of the normal axle load. The new rules caused a delay with the lorries forming a six-kilometre queue as they waited for their trucks to be measured. Officers at the weigh-bridge were caught unaware as they had to contend with manual tallying after the axle load computers were through with weighing as they had to establish the gross weight of the vehicle, an exercise that was quite slow. Frustrated truck drivers interviewed at the weigh-bridge said that they were not informed of the impending new rules as they would have complied before taking their lorries to the weigh-bridge. They said that they had spent a lot of time at the area and yet they had not been given money by their employers to cater for the delay that was at the bridge. They called upon the Government to ensure that they bought machines that would weigh the whole vehicle gross weight rather than rely on axle load weight for gross weight which they said is impractical. Drivers whose vehicles exceeded the required weights were arrested and taken to the Kaloleni magistrates court where they were, fined of between shs 5000 and 10,000. They claimed that there was a plot to overcharge them as they were being penalised as drivers as well as for the excess weight and wondered who formulated the new rules that were now harrasing. They also alleged that they police officers at the weighbridge were detaining their travel documents including passports, driving licences and cargo delivery documents which they could not release before being corrupted by the helpless drivers and turnboys. Efforts to get comment from the Provincial works officer Mr. Gichuru who was present at the weighbridge were fruitless as he drove off in a huff when he saw us approaching him for an interview.