Although a law was passed in mid-January that requires drivers of 102" wide trucks found traveling on state and county roads to pay up to a $1,000 fine, an investigative reporter for the Trenton Times discovered that since then state police have not issued a single ticket for this offense and are keeping no records of trucks found in violation of the ban (MTR #253). A state police spokesperson told the Times that delay in receiving guidelines from the state Attorney General's office kept officers from enforcing the ban. The Attorney General has been lukewarm in defense of the restriction in a lawsuit brought against the state by the American Trucking Association.

On Monday the outraged Lambertville City Council joined by representatives from the surrounding townships called on Governor Whitman and other state officials to extend the ban to include 96-inch vehicles and to give municipal police enforcement authority. Bills that would take the smaller trucks off roads not part of the National Highway System (S49, A2384) await hearing in both NJ Senate and the Assembly Transportation Committees. Citizens groups and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign strongly support this initiative.