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New Law Takes Effect January 1
For years, families in California’s Inland Empire have lived with rumbling trucks outside their windows, diesel fumes drifting into backyards, and potholes that never seem to get fixed. Starting January 1, 2026, that changes.
A new state law forces big rigs onto designated routes and off neighborhood streets, giving cities the power to keep 18-wheelers where they belong.
The story behind this law starts with warehouses, lots of them, and the communities that got buried under their traffic.
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4,000 Warehouses Transformed the Inland Empire
The Inland Empire sits about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and over the past two decades it became ground zero for America’s shipping boom…