sector employees in the Eastern Province who are cited by the Saher traffic-monitoring system while driving company vehicles will have the fines deducted from their salaries, officials said. Because those vehicles are registered to the companies, the fines are levied against them. Before the system was implemented in Dammam, Al-Khobar, Dhahran and Al-Qateef, a number of companies reminded their drivers about the need to comply with traffic regulations, specifically addressing the Saher system and the need to abide by speed limits and said traffic fines would be deducted from their salaries. A number of companies are working to obtain data on their drivers and provide the information to the Traffic Department so traffic violations are directly registered in the names of the drivers, rather than in the names of the companies that own the vehicles. In a related matter, traffic violations detected by the Saher system in Eastern Province cities have increased, compared to those registered in the first few days after the system was implemented in those cities. There have been more than 5,000 violations in the last eight days, officials said, a rate of more than 625 violations per day.
