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County To Enforce Truck Ban On Northern End Of Highway 95A
July 6, 2015
Now that a fully functional traffic signal is in place at Highway 29 and Highway 97 in Molino, the Escambia County Commission is set to ban big trucks from a portion of Highway 95A in Molino.
Trucks in excess of 10,500 pounds gross weight, except for trucks servicing or having business in the area, will be banned from Highway 95A from Highway 29 to Highway 97.
“No Truck” signs were in place along the are of Highway 95A for years, but the county commission never voted to make the truck prohibition official. After announcing that the ban would be enforced back in 2013, the Escambia County Commission backed down until the traffic signal at Highway 29 and Highway 97 could be approved and installed.
Residents of the all residential northern stretch of Highway 95A had pushed commissioners to enforce a truck ban on Highway 95A. But trucking company owners successfully convinced the commission that the route was safer than their trucks making turns at through the Highways 29 and 97 intersection without a red light.
In 2009, Escambia County issued exemption letters to the Highway 95A truck ban to C&C Hauling, American Concrete Supply and Kimmons Trucking. Those exemptions will become null and void if the commission votes Tuesday night to enforce the Highway 95A truck ban.
In 2013, the commission did vote to close the full length of Crabtree Church Road from Highway 97 to Sunshine Hill Road to truck traffic. The new traffic signal at Highway 97 and Highway 29 became operational on June 11.
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7 Responses to “County To Enforce Truck Ban On Northern End Of Highway 95A”
Truck ban? First you have to get rid of the meth monsters & crackheads that infest the Methleenhoe Road & Hwy 95A area.
All across the US there are Weigh stations for truckers. Truckers avoid them like the plague! Put a weigh station on 95A and the problem solved!
Their is one thing in life for sure. What u have are want to have in life is controlled by u and u along. The person up the road has nothing to do with what u have. The point is heavy trucks should not use secondary roads.
It’s about time. Why let some people drive their trucks through and not others. We are all tax payers and rules are foe everybody.
If the sign is already up why do they have to “start enforcing” they should already be enforcing it! It’s the same on Highway 99N, the heavy trucks ignore the already posted NO TRUCKS sign! They are destroying the road! It’s getting worse by the day!
why dont they ban all log trucks on 95a period? yes they use it all day long to miss the dot.well dot ride 95a and see. c and c hauling drive very slow on 95a and we are use to them cause they will never change them.its all the dump trucks and log trucks that are blasting by our house.if they have to use it they need to slow down.why are the fancy houses on upper 95a better than we are? if they dont have to deal with it why do we on lower end.its not fair.i guess if your house looks better than ours oh well there you go. for some reason the county looks out for people that has money.I GUESS WE DONT HAVE MONEY SO WHO CARES WHO FLIES BY OUR POOR HOUSES.
A good route if u want to go around DOT check on 29. Wide ope log and gravel trucks