Governor: Trucks to stay on highways

SKANEATELES - Truck drivers driving large tractor trailers to upstate landfills will soon have to think twice before leaving the main highway, Gov. David Paterson said Monday.

Paterson, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and a handful of state and local officials announced that the state Department of Transportation will develop a new policy to keep large, non-local trucks from traveling through towns in the Finger Lakes region.

The new regulations will be available for public view by the first week of June. Paterson said he expects them to be implemented this summer.