Smoothness is the main feature of road exploitation. It particularly affects movement speed, safety and driving comfort. Evenness of the road belongs of three factors: strength of the pavement construction, heavy vehicle traffic and the impact of the axle mass over it’s term of exploitation. The main negative influence on Lithuanian roads has a overloaded heavy vehicle in excess of the permissible axle load limits. Static and dynamic vehicle weighing equipment and technologies were presented in the article. This article explores overloaded heavy vehicle damage done to Lithuanian roads and its intensity increase. Discuss the basic preventive techniques and methods to prevent the rapid wear of pavements. Also analysis of changes in axial load data through the 2009 August is done.

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