Trucks

Trucks form quarries cause enormous wear on roads. Large trucks travelling to and from quarry sites loaded down with sand, gravel and rock can weigh 25-100 tons. Each single truck trip is equivalent to thousands of car trips in terms of wear to the road. This means increased costs to the towns for road maintenance. Failing to keep up with repairing damage to the roads can create increased safety risks for motorists.

In addition to the trucks needed to transport the 20,400,000 cubic yards of earth that CCA plans to remove, there will also be additional trucks on site hauling material, trucks that bring explosives to the site, customer trucks picking up materials form the site and other trucks that may be required.

The road on which the site is located is a narrow, small town road lined with family residences. The speed limit is not posted. Residents have already observed trucks traveling down the street at 50 miles an hour in 35 and 25 mile per hour zones. Residents frequently find damage to their yards and tire tracks where trucks swerve off the narrow road onto lawns. There is no curb, no sidewalk, no street lights, n shoulder. Quarry trucks will be sharing these narrow roads with pedestrians, cyclists, school buses and family passenger cars. Many towns with quarries have documented resident complaints about quarry trucks dropping sand, gravel and rocks onto roads, trucks travelling through town uncovered, and trucks spewing dust. Towns with quarries can experience an increase in accidents between trucks and family passenger cars. In addition to serious collations, damages to passenger cars such as dented hoods and broken windshields can result from quarry trucks dropping gravel and rocks onto cars.