The Alachua County Public Works Department announced last week that it has installed more than 240 “No Trucks” signs on 44 road segments. The initiative is aimed at improving safety by encouraging large commercial trucks to utilize more suitable state and county roads.
According to an Alachua County release, the decision to install the “No Trucks” signs came after numerous citizens made inquiries regarding the safety concerns posed by large trucks traveling at high speeds on narrow roads.
In response, the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners directed the Public Works Department to implement the “No Trucks” restriction on collector roads that have travel lanes 11 feet wide or narrower. These roadways consist of 14% of the county’s collector road system.
In the release, Alachua County stated, “According to the Florida Highway Patrol’s Bureau of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement in the Ocala District, enforcing a ‘No Trucks’ restriction is simpler and more effective than weight-based restrictions. As a result, some roads previously restricted by weight limits have now been designated with the ‘No Trucks’ sign, which law enforcement can enforce more easily.”
The restrictions apply to commercial trucks passing through these designated areas and not trucks making deliveries to addresses located on these roads. Local deliveries, which include those during the holiday season, will not be impacted by the new regulations.
I wish the county I lived in before this, would have done that. Before GPS, trucks would follow ‘truck route’ signage and stay off secondary roads. Now, the GPS does ‘shortest’ or ‘fastest’, and there ya go! Which is why the issue exists. Now, it’s a question of enforcement. Let’s see if our LEO’S will do that.
How much taxpayer $$$$$$$$ wasted on this?
Probably a lot less than spent on repaving/repairing roads ruined by heavy trucks
Now if they’d put speed limit signs in Hawthorne I could see why my taxes have doubled in 7 years
They posted the signs, and the trucks not paying them signs no attention. Not on 239 !!
no one will bother to actually enforce it so it doesn’t matter
Nonviolent crime… No one cares in this town
Vote them out and stop taking about the city or county commissioners 2nd highest property taxes in the entire state is extremely embarrassing.