The Arkansas Highway Department is moving forward with plans to build eight new commercial truck weigh-in pads in central Arkansas.
The pads will be in the Fayetteville shale area of the state due to increase in traffic from natural gas drilling.
Trucks from natural gas rigs have caused significant damage to roads in recent years.
Randy Ort of the highway department says these pads will not be very big.
"These are simply going to be, for a lack of a better term, wide spots in the road." Ort said, "An area where a truck can pull off safely."
Highway officers will inspect the trucks with the portable scales they carry with them.
Ort says the project is expected to cost about one point six million dollars, but the plan is still in its early stages and no contractor has been chosen.
Ort says that the narrow, hilly roads of the area aren’t equipped to handle the amount of inspections needed.
These pads will eliminate the need for multiple patrols to make one inspection.
The highway department’s officers issued over three thousand over weight citations in the federal fiscal year ending in September 2010.
Source: KUAR
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