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County shifts efforts aimed at truck safety

A previous proposal apparently is not going to work, but county officials are still pursuing multiple channels for dealing with what they say is an increasing number of complaints here about issues with heavy truck traffic.The major focus is on the abundance of trucks hauling sand produced northwest of Lamesa to be used in oil well fracking operations throughout the area, mostly to the south of Lamesa.Last month the Dawson County Commissioners Court and Sheriff Matt Hogg discussed the possibility of hiring two additional deputies and getting them certifi ed to make commercial vehicle inspections.Such inspections, they said at the ...

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Lamesa Press-Reporter

P.O. Box 710
Lamesa, TX 79331
806-872-2177