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Indian Railways planned these works during lockdown period considering it 'Once in a lifetime opportunity' to wipe out these maintenance arrears without affecting the train services.It has used the lockdown period and resultant suspension of passenger services to address long-pending maintenance work on rail network to improve safety and operational efficiencies.Modern heavy duty Track Maintenance Machines along with track, signal and Overhead Equipment (OHE) maintainers have worked regularly to complete overdue track maintenance of plain track.Ultrasonic flaw detection (USFD) of track and rail welds has been carried out with USFD machine.Health of track has been monitored through periodic runs of Oscillation Monitoring System (OMS) to ensure proper quality.Source-The Economic Times

Possibly.The EU food safety regime is based on a “prove it’s safe”. While the US is based on “prove it’s unsafe”. Overall, you are 20 times more likely to have food poisoning in the US than in the UK, according the US Center of Disease Control and Prevention.The US reports higher rates of illness from food borne illness than in the UK. Annually, 14.7% (48 million) of the US population suffer from an illness, versus 1.5% (1 millon) in the UK. This is nearly ten times the percentage of population.The US reports higher rates of deaths from food borne illness than in the UK. The annual death rate in the US is 3000 per annum, versus 500 in the UK. The US population is about 5 times the size of the UK.Outside the EU, food safety is a cause for concern. In Asia, shrimps are treated with antibiotics which are prohibited in the EU because they can lead to blindness.The EU operates notoriously strict sanitary and phytosanitary measures on frontier controls. These check the safety and health of everything from livestock to plants before they enter the EU.Once outside of the EU, the UK government will have to chose whether to follow the US safety regime or the stricter EU regime. And operate new or additional frontier controls accordingly. The Irish border remains unresolved.

You are not required to weigh a truck. You can load one up as heavy as you want, and operate it on any property you have permission to, and even operate it on certain public lands without any safety or sanity check at all.Oh you meant on the public road system? Yeah, that is a different beast entirely. You see, the nation has a vested interest in maintaining that system in a safe and fully operable manner. That was part of the conditions for getting the funding to build that system in the first place, they had to guarantee that they could take care of it and make sure it did not succumb to a “tragedy of the commons” scenario. They were mandated the task to come up with rules and regulations to further that goal, and the only stipulations were that those rules and regulations were narrowly tailored to fit the expressed interest of maintaining safety and operability without being an undue burden on the users of the system.Weighing a truck using that system is absolutely a necessary regulation to have.Overweight trucks:Are a safety hazard, because they have significantly higher stopping distances for a given speed, and that stopping distance can be longer than visibility distances for the road you are on.Are a maintenance burden, as they greatly increase the wear and tear on road surfaces, and can even cause catastrophic failures, like collapsed culverts or bridges.You will note that the regulation is as narrowly tailored as possible, as the government is not allowed to inspect the load, only weigh the truck in its entirety. As far as they are concerned a few tons of bananas is exactly the same as a few tons of rocks. About the only visual inspection they can do is on the outside of the truck looking for obvious safety hazards (unsecured loads, visual obstruction hazards like loose tarps etc.). If they cannot express any probable cause to look inside (based on either external cues or some other side channel of evidence like a verified tip-off), they have no right to open and inspect your load. The regulation is as narrowly tailored as possible to achieve the goal of making sure trucks are operating in a safe and non-destructive manner.They even have a procedure in case you need to violate any of these rules, by applying for a permit for unusual loads. This can even include temporarily shutting down the entire road for your exclusive use, and allowing you to lay down reinforcements to beef up the load carrying capacity of the road. All you have to do is coordinate with the transportation agency and possibly pay any fees.If you do not like these regulation you do not have to follow it; simply do not use the public road system and instead utilize (or develop) a private road system and you can operate with whatever rules you decide to set. There are indeed places that do this. Large mines, for example, build their own private roads and operate house sized trucks on them, a clear violation of anything that would be allowed on the public road infrastructure. Some logging companies situate their mills on the edge of their logging land, and operate grossly overweight vehicles (by public road standards) on private roads built for that purpose. Race track owners build roads that have no real speed limits, and many of them allow you to drive there sans speed limits too, all you have to do is sign a waiver (build one yourself and you will not even have to do that).But if you insist on utilizing public roads you will be bound by the rules and regulations thereof. If you think any rules is not narrowly tailored enough to safeguard the public interest in that road while still respecting individual autonomy you can take it up with the courts to see if they agree. Various transportation agencies have had their rules slapped down in the past, and either been told the rule did not cover a valid public interest or that it was too overbroad and needed to be narrowed down to cover only that valid interest.I suspect, given there is very good public interest for regulation the weight of trucks on the public roads, that if you were to take up a petition or lawsuit to change that regulation that you would not get very far. Let me know if you decide to try.