Appellant, Robert C. Anderson, upon summary conviction under the Motor Vehicle Code for operating a vehicle with excessive axle weight, was sentenced to pay $710 by a district justice.1 Following a hearing do novo before the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Appellant was again found guilty. In this appeal from the judgment of *370sentence,2 he asserts three grounds for reversal: (1) the trial court erred in holding him strictly liable for violation of the Code; (2) the Commonwealth failed to sustain its burden of proof; and (3) the police lacked reasonable belief, or probable cause to believe, a violation of the motor vehicle code had occurred. We find no merit to any of these assertions and we therefore affirm the trial court’s judgment of sentence.

The facts of the case may be briefly summarized. Appellant, while driving a tri-axle vehicle, was stopped by a state trooper working in conjunction with two weight enforcement agents of the Department of Transportation. The state trooper testified at trial that the vehicle driven by Appellant “was loaded with coal and the tires being squashed out and heaped up in the bed of the truck was coal and it was this officer’s opinion that he was in violation of excessive weights.” N.T. at 6.

At the time of the stop Appellant had a weighmaster’s slip showing a gross weight of 73,260 lbs. or 20 pounds under the statutory maximum.3 However, when weighed by one of the Department of Transportation enforcement agents, the truck registered at 75,000 lbs. gross weight and the third axle registered more than 22,600 lbs. Appellant was issued a citation for exceeding the 18,000 lb. permissible maximum axle weight.4

*371Appellant’s argument on appeal duplicates that of the appellant in Commonwealth v. Hennemuth,5 294 Pa.Super. 360, 439 A.2d 1241 (1982). For the reasons therein set forth, we affirm the judgment of sentence.