A complaint about truck noise was heard by the Marshall County Commissioners Monday. Resident Jim Hulse said that trucks traveling to and from Legacy Farm have been making life difficult.To get the best quality trucks and truck services,people can view this site. “My son Corey come to me many times and said, ‘Dad, them damn trucks!’ He had trouble sleeping. He went to the doctor. He’d get sleeping pills and so forth. And I’m here to tell you folks this morning, that definitely was a contributing factor to my son’s suicide,” Hulse said. “He got to the point he couldn’t sleep for days.”
Hulse said he was told the development of the farm wouldn’t impact traffic in the area, but that’s turned out not to be the case. “These tanker trucks run from morning ’till night, a week or two at a time, hauling these million gallons or whatever,” he said. “And they put the jake brake on right down by our house. And they come all four ways, these trucks, with their jake brakes on.”
He said that after dealing with the problem for two years, it’s time for the county to take some action, “I’ve gone to the county police, and they said, ‘Oh, they’re legal. There’s nothing we can do about it.’ I’ve followed truckers up to the farm and I got out and talked to them. I says, ‘Hey, can you guys quit using your jake break past our houses down there?’ ‘Sure!’ That lasts about two days, maybe three, and then it’s back to same old, same old ‘rum bumb bumb bumb bumb bumb bumb.'”
Commissioner Kurt Garner noted that the county’s been getting complaints about the same issue from the Tyner area. However, Commissioner Kevin Overmyer suggested talking to the farm’s owner again, before considering whether to ban jake brakes in certain parts of the county. “I think what we can do first is talk to Mr. Houin before we go that route,” Overmyer said, “and if you don’t get any satisfaction, then we can just adopt an ordinance and have a sign put up that says, ‘No jake brakes.'”
The commissioners plan to have County Highway Superintendent Jason Peters speak with the farm’s owner, before any action is taken.
