NANTICOKE – A city police officer recently pulled over a tractor trailer cutting through the middle of town enroute to one of the new distribution warehouses just outside the city limits. The driver ...

Americans have a real issue with restrictions on their roads, whether it's speed limits that nobody sticks to, height restrictions that all kinds of tall vehicles miss or weight limits that certain ...

We've all seen semi trucks pulling into weigh stations on the highway. But why exactly must big rigs face weight inspections?

Trouble continues on the Fourth Street bridge between Newport and Covington as heavy trucks exceeding new weight limits continue to cross the dilapidated structure.Inspectors found the bridge was in ...

A tractor trailer, what the ordinance was hoping to limit and altogether ban from Van Dam Street, passing through the intersection of Church Street and Van Dam Street. The sign has since been taken ...

Officials from Nanticoke and Newport Twp. are the latest government leaders in Northeast Pennsylvania objecting to efforts to increase the size of large trucks on the nation’s roads. Both ...

Proposals have been heard in the past about increasing the truck weight limits on the federal level. In 2021, Indiana passed a law raising the maximum truck weight from 80,000 pounds to 120,000 pounds ...

In Missouri, the current weight limit on interstates is 85,500 pounds. A trade group representing major retailers, including Target and Home Depot, submitted a comment to the Department of ...