April 7, 2021
Via: Transportation TodayThe Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) recently awarded $7 million to 21 projects statewide to upgrade roads to accommodate local truck traffic. Funding is through IDOT’s Truck Access Route Program. The program allows townships, municipalities, and counties to apply for […]
October 14, 2020
Via: Transport TopicsThe Texas Department of Public Safety has opened a technologically advanced truck inspection facility in Seguin, which straddles Interstate 10. Located 36 miles east of San Antonio, Seguin is home to facilities for companies such as Caterpillar Inc. and Niagara […]
February 5, 2018
Via: Transport TopicsUNION GAP, Wash. — On a daily average, 3,400 trucks hauling freight travel along Main Street and Valley Mall Boulevard in Union Gap, Wash., just to access Interstate 82. But the route, city officials say, is a recipe for disaster […]
March 22, 2017
Via: Transport TopicsA 102-inch-wide tractor-trailer belongs in Alburtis, a hillside borough of 2,400 people, narrow streets and no traffic lights, about as much as a tricycle belongs on Interstate 78. Yet Sharon Trexler couldn’t get through a five-minute phone call in mid-March […]