The article deals with the issues of monitoring the wear and tear of road surface. A brief description of the existing methods of monitoring the condition of roads is given, their advantages and disadvantages are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the method of monitoring the wear of the road by means of software-hardware complexes placed directly on the section of the route, peculiarities of their application and processing of the results of measurements. The article contains a description of a miniature stand developed by the authors to study methods of controlling the wear of road surface using stationary sensor complexes. It is shown how it is possible to measure the traffic flow on the road section as well as the mass of cars.