Driver who can’t pay fine on too-heavy rig jailed for 4 days

This April 11, 2015 booking photo provided by the Washington County Jail shows Francisco Amareles-Amareles, of of Hialeah, Fla., arrested in Canonsburg, Pa., for driving a 40-ton truck hauling gas drilling pipe on a road with a 10-ton limit. Police say the trucker's cheaper GPS led him onto a borough street with the same name as the rural road where he was supposed to deliver the pipe. Police said the driver might have avoided the penalty if he had a better global positioning system device that would have alerted him to the weight limit. (AP Photo/Washington County Jail) This April 11, 2015 booking photo provided by the Washington County Jail shows Francisco Amareles-Amareles, of of Hialeah, Fla., arrested in Canonsburg, Pa., for driving a 40-ton truck hauling gas drilling pipe on a road with a 10-ton limit. Police say the trucker's cheaper GPS led him onto a borough street with the same name as the rural road where he was supposed to deliver the pipe. Police said the driver might have avoided the penalty if he had a better global positioning system device that would have alerted him to the weight limit. (AP Photo/Washington County Jail)

By Associated Press April 14, 2015 1 min read

CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) – A Florida truck driver has been jailed for four days in Pennsylvania for not being able to pay a portion of the $17,000 fine he got for driving an overweight rig.

Francisco Amareles-Amareles, of Hialeah, was arrested Saturday after police saw him drive his 40-ton rig onto a narrow road with a 10-ton limit.

Police believe he mistook Alpine Street in Canonsburg for Alpine Drive, a rural road in Cecil Township.

A district judge refused to release Amareles-Amareles unless he posted $10,000 to secure his appearance at a Wednesday hearing on the fine.

The company the driver works for didn’t immediately return calls Tuesday. Court records don’t list an attorney for him.