Police are being deployed to target dangerous drivers on the A90.
Officers and agents of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency carried out high visibility patrols on the trunk road on Sunday and are continuing today.
The operation will target poor and inconsiderate driver behaviour.
Police are also targeting small commercial vehicles to detect defects.
PC Holliegh Scott from the Stonehaven community policing team said: “There are a significant amount of commercial vehicles of all sizes travelling around Stonehaven and making use of the A90 trunk road.
“Many of these vehicles routinely visit building sites and sustain damage to tyres, lights and windows that are sometimes overlooked by those using them.
“This operation, running alongside Operation Cedar, is aimed at targeting these smaller commercial vehicles to ensure that any defects that do exist, or maybe have gone unchecked, are remedied.
“It is a balance between education and enforcement that will ensure drivers and those operating such vehicles maintain them to a good standard.”
The most recent A90 crackdown last month found 185 drivers over the speed limit, with five recorded travelling at more than 100 miles per hour on the road between Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh last week.
Officers stopped nearly 600 vehicles.
They dealt with 31 drivers in relation to careless or dangerous driving.
One driver was travelling at 91mph in an area restricted to 50mph during roadworks.