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Legislator urges DPW to ask GPS firms to remove county roads from nonlocal heavy‑truck routings
Summary
A legislator told the committee that constituents report increased nonlocal heavy truck traffic using county roads as GPS‑recommended shortcuts and asked Department of Public Works to contact navigation companies to exclude county roads from nonlocal heavy‑truck routes.
Legislator Litts told the committee on Aug. 11 that constituents have reported an uptick in nonlocal heavy‑truck traffic on county roads in recent months and urged the Department of Public Works to contact GPS and routing companies to remove county roads from nonlocal heavy‑truck routing.
“I would suggest to DPW that they contact the GPS, like Waze and those companies, and have them remove the county roads from their routes, nonlocal routes for heavy trucks,” Litts said, adding that county roads are not built to interstate or state highway standards and that excessive axle loads can damage the surface.
Committee members and DPW staff nodded in agreement; the suggestion was recorded as direction to staff rather than a formal motion. DPW staff did not provide a timeline at the meeting for outreach to navigation companies or a planned enforcement or signage strategy.
Legislator Litts cited several county roads where truck routing has been observed and asked DPW to pursue outreach to the GPS firms to reduce nonlocal heavy‑truck routing on structurally sensitive county roads.
