Truckers Complain About N.J. Trailer Restrictions

Amid some confusion over New Jersey’s prohibition against off-route interstate truck movements, state police handed out another 76 tickets to drivers, raising the of number of summonses above 150 since serious enforcement started May 20.

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New Jersey does not allow out-of-state tractor-trailers to use of its any roads to transit the state except the network of designated truck routes. But it does allow those trucks on banned routes if pick up or delivery is involved.

The New Jersey Motor Truck Association is helping 15 of its members fight tickets that it contends were issued by confused police officers to truckers who thought they were obeying the law. The trucking group claimed that officers misinterpreted the law and gave tickets to the wrong people.

The restriction on truck movements was announced by Gov. Christie Todd Whitman in July 1999, but had to wait for legislative approval for enforcement. It limits 102-inch-wide tractor-trailers and twin-trailer combinations from out of state to the New Jersey Turnpike, Atlantic City Expressway, Interstates and selected primary roads on the federally-designated national truck system.

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