CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Brooks County leaders recently voted to lower the load size for big rigs that travel through the area after noticing the extensive wear and tear the trucks were putting on certain county roads.
The load size was lowered from 50,000 to 30,000 pounds.
Brooks County Judge Eric Ramos said County Road 110 has seen better days. The stretch of road being riddled with patch jobs in order to lengthen the street's longevity.
"The first stretch is pretty good because it's taken care of by the state, it's the part that the county takes care of that's being deteriorated and being damaged over and over again," he said.
County Road 110 has easily become a vehicle's worst nightmare. Ramos said that continuing to Band-Aid the bridge can cost the county some big bucks.
"It's about a million dollars a mile," he said.
The road spans 22 miles, with multiple ranches and residences that feel the impacts of the road's failing integrity.
3NEWS spoke with one ranch manager who wished to remain anonymous who said the road makes it difficult for the ranch to conduct business.
"We've had people that didn't want to come out here because they said, 'I can't take my car down here, it's just to bad,' or they can't make it into work because they had a blowout," he said.
Nueces County Director of Public Works Juan Pimentel said the county has a plan if they see a stretch of road is nearing the end of it's rope, closer to home.
"We have what's called a seven-year plan," Pimentel said. "Within that seven-year plan, each road within our county, we try to resurface that road."