OPP are using a Mercedes Sprinter Van to sneak up on truckers on Highway 401 near London to see if there is any distracted driving going on in the truck. The windows are tinted and it is an easy task to see across the roadway into the cab of a truck. “In the Sprinter van, they don’t expect us,” PC Henk Ruitenbeek told the CBC. He is seen in the video below working from the van’s rear tail-gunner” seat to peek in on drivers. Meanwhile the Sprinter’s driver is manoeuvring the van to run parallel to suspect trucks long enough to give Ruitenbeek a good look. The van’s crew report any suspicious driving to other officers who drive nearby in marked police cruisers. When a driver is caught using a phone at the wheel or not wearing a seatbelt, the sprinter van crew radios colleagues who pull over the driver and write a ticket.
In this video, @OPP_WR explain how they use the stealthily sprinter van for highway enforcement. #ldnont pic.twitter.com/fgjbWPFIfE
— Andrew Lupton (@AndrewLuptonCBC) December 12, 2017
