Crews last week installed video cameras on both sides of U.S. 1 between Royal Palms Parkway and Whiteview Parkway in Palm Coast, FL, to monitor the weight of large trucks. Not to worry: the ominous-looking spy cameras that have just gone up are not speed cameras. They’re not even trained at most vehicles.

They’re aimed at heavy trucks only, to catch overweight truckers trying to evade the weigh stations either on U.S. 1 or on I-95.

Another set will be built further north, by the northbound lanes of U.S. 1, opposite the weigh station, as part of the Florida Department of Transportation’s $1.2 million virtual weigh station system that’s been rigging up selected points around the county since last year.

Similar cameras have been in place a year at the on-ramp of I-95 north and State Road 100, and at the off ramp from I-95 southbound, onto Palm Coast Parkway. That part of the system cost $632,000.

The cameras are linked to sensors in the road that are triggered only by heavy trucks and they automatically take a high-definition picture of the truck and its license plate. […]