GREELEY — Weld County is taking the Town of Hudson to court in an attempt to keep construction of a planned truck stop along Interstate 76 from further damaging a heavily traveled county road.
In a complaint filed Monday in Weld District Court, the Board of County Commissioners sued Hudson and Knoxville, Tennessee-based Pilot Travel Centers LLC over the project, whose site plan was approved in March 2024. The truck stop would be built at I-76 and Weld County Road 49, locally known as Weld County Parkway. Pilot’s contractor also was included in the complaint.
“This action is not brought to contest that determination or in any way cast aspersions on Pilot Travel Centers LLC’s right to construct a truck stop at the location,” the county said in its complaint. “Rather, this action is brought to prevent Pilot Travel Centers LLC, with the Town of Hudson’s blessing, from, in the rush to complete construction, damaging a Weld County-maintained public highway and in the process causing unnecessary safety risks to the traveling public.”…