EUNICE M. ULLOA KAREN C. COMSTOCK
Mayor CHRISTOPHER FLORES
MARC LUCIO
Council Members
CURTIS BURTON DR. LINDA REICH
Mayor Pro Tem City Manager
CITY of CHINO
May 5, 2026
The Honorable Norma Torres
2227 Rayburn House Office Building
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Via email: [email protected] and [email protected].
RE: Bigger Trucks: Bad for America's Local Communities
Dear Congresswoman Torres,
The City of Chino's transportation infrastructure is a key part of our community's economic vitality and quality of life. For this reason, we ask that you oppose any proposals in Congress to allow any increase in truck length or weight. Longer double-trailer trucks or heavier single-trailer trucks would only make the current situation worse. Allowing heavier and longer trucks will most certainly set us back in our efforts to improve the condition and safety of our transportation infrastructure, especially in our City and region, which have a heavy concentration of logistics businesses and a large volume of trucks.
Much of our transportation infrastructure that connects people to jobs, schools, and leisure is in disrepair, in part because local and rural roads and bridges are older and not built to the same standards as interstates.
Because of underfunded budgets, many cities cannot keep up with maintenance schedules and replacement costs. The impacts of longer or heavier tractor-trailers would only worsen these problems. Millions of miles of truck traffic operate on local roads and bridges across the country, and any bigger trucks allowed on our interstates would mean additional trucks that ultimately find their way onto our local infrastructure.
Longer and heavier trucks would cause significantly more damage to our transportation infrastructure, costing us billions of dollars that local government budgets simply cannot afford, compromising the very routes that American motorists use every day. We ask that you oppose any legislation that would allow any increase in truck length or weight. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Deputy City Manager Vivian Castro at [email protected] or 909-334-3307.
use hellas
Mayor
CC: Hye Jin Lee, Public Works Director
Dennis Ralls, Transportation Engineer
13220 Central Avenue. Chino. California 91710
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 667, Chino, California 91708-0667 (909) 334-3250 • (909) 334-3720 Fax
Web Site: www.cityofchino.org