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June 21, 2000 10:50 AM, EDT

New Jersey is putting muscle behind the ban that prohibits interstate truckers from using local roads to cross the state.> Police have started ticketing drivers who don’t respect the prohibition against through trucks on secondary roadways imposed by Gov. Christie Todd Whitman nearly a year ago.

State troopers have been turning around trucks violating the ban since January, but now police have the power to ticket drivers, too. Nearly 100 tickets have been written since enforcement began May 20.

Whitman’s order prohibits trucks 102 inches or wider not making pick-ups or deliveries in New Jersey from using any road that is not part of the national network of truck routes. The authorized network includes some of the state’s larger divided highways, the federal Interstates, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Atlantic City Expressway.

For the full story, see the June 19 print edition of Transport Topics. .