Use this checklist when planning and designing your site for truck traffic:

• Is your site on a designated truck route?


• Highway access permits: Can you meet the approval criteria?


• Traffic impact statement: Is this required?


• Review fees: Is there a charge? If so, is it affordable?


• Access road improve­ments: Are you required to pay for their design and construction?


• Turning radii at truck maneuver points: Will the length and wheelbase of the largest trucks that will access your property be accommodated? If tandem units will access your property, will they be accommodated?


• Driveway throat length: Is it sufficient for the number and length of trucks anticipated?


• Is truck traffic sufficiently segregated from other vehicles and pedestrians?


• Loading bays: Are they at the appropriate elevation? Are they drained?


• Off-peak hour deliveries Is lighting sufficient for access, loading, and driver and payload security?


• Truck scales: Are they required? If so, what design criteria is to be used?


• Is remote communication at security gates needed?


• Truck accident history: What is the history at similar developments? What improvements can you make to avoid them?


• Air and noise quality: Will moving and idling trucks cause issues? If so, what mitigation measures may be required?


• Bollards and curbing: Are they appropriately located to minimize damage to buildings and site features?


• Pavement and subbase: Is the thickness sufficient for the design loads?


• Slabs and underground structures (storm and sewer manholes, under­ground tanks, pipes, etc.): Are they designed for the appropriate loadings?


• Special truck signage: Is it required? If so, where?


• Visual impacts on adjacent properties: If there are any, is mitigation required?


• Obtain input from the facility manager and trucking company.

For a complimentary verification that your property has access to a designated truck route, contact Tim Gawenus at (585) 334-1310 or tgawenus@fisherassoc.com.