Residents living in the Village of Lowellville and Coitsville township said they're fed up with truck traffic. Some are worried it poses a risk in their neighborhoods.

“Being a rural road, you see a lot of people riding their bikes, or walking, running down the streets. They’re not used to seeing semis driving down the street,” Tim Reardon, CEO of the Villa Maria Campus Center.

Despite signs prohibiting landfill trucks, residents say it's been a problem for years. Rick Alli, Chief of Police at the Lowellville Police Department said signs have been put up to try and stop landfill trucks on the roads, but they are still a problem in many neighborhoods.

Despite the signs, Alli said he sees the landfill trucks on a regular basis. Ali said he receives a report of a landfill truck causing damage about once a a month. 

Many of these trucks are dropping waste at a nearby landfill, but their GPS is bringing them off the highway, and onto these residential roads.

“They’ll go down either Wood Street or Walnut Street, and those are small residential streets. They cannot make those turns. So as they try to make those turns, they’re destroying yards, they’re going over our sidewalks, they crack the sidewalk,” said Alli.

Resident’s yards and property have also been damaged from the trucks. One resident said multiple trucks have driven into his yard, and his mailbox was knocked down several times.

Some residents said they see the trucks every day. 

“They would drive up and down the street like all hours of the day pretty much, like nighttime, daytime,” said resident Morgan Guiles.

Alli said a language barrier has prevented some of the drivers from reading the signs altogether.

Alli said there's a $250 fine for any landfill truck caught on these roads.