Governor Phil Murphy • Lt. Governor Tahesha Way

Department of Transportation

Weight Regulations

Route NJ 29
(a) The certain parts of State Highway Route NJ 29 described in this subsection prohibit certain classes of vehicles as described below:
1. In Mercer County:
i. In the City of Trenton:
(1) Trucks and truck-trailer combinations over 26,000 pounds gross registered vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, or gross combination weight rating, regardless of their dimensions are prohibited for both directions of traffic, except emergency vehicles, government owned, or government leased vehicles:
(A) Between Route NJ 129 and the northerly intersection of the Trenton Tunnel (approximate mileposts 1.64 to 2.60).
(2) Trucks and truck-trailer combinations over 26,000 pounds gross registered vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, or gross combination weight rating, regardless of their dimensions are prohibited for both directions of traffic, except emergency vehicles, government owned, or government leased vehicles, or to vehicles which have an origin or final destination on or within three miles of the prohibited section, or are making an actual pickup, delivery, or providing services:
(A) Between the northerly intersection of the Trenton Tunnel and Route US 1 (approximate mileposts 2.60 to 3.37).
(3) Trucks and truck-trailer combinations over 26,000 pounds gross registered vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, or gross combination weight rating, regardless of their dimensions are prohibited for both directions of traffic, except emergency vehicles, government owned, or government leased vehicles, vehicles engaged in the commercial delivery of rapidly setting concrete mixtures, vehicles making an actual pickup, delivery, providing services, or have an origin or final destination on or within three miles of the prohibited sections:
(A) Between Route US 1 and the City of Trenton – Ewing Township corporate line (approximate mileposts 3.37 to 6.93).
ii.  In the Township of Ewing:
(1) Trucks and truck-trailer combinations over 26,000 pounds gross registered vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, or gross combination weight rating, regardless of their dimensions are prohibited for both directions of traffic, except emergency vehicles, government owned, or government leased vehicles, vehicles engaged in the commercial delivery of rapidly setting concrete mixtures, vehicles making an actual pickup, delivery, providing services, or have an origin or final destination on or within three miles of the prohibited sections:
(A) Between the City of Trenton – Ewing Township corporate line and the Ewing Township – Hopewell Township corporate line (approximate mileposts 6.93 to 10.51).
iii.  In the Township of Hopewell:
(1) Trucks and truck-trailer combinations over 26,000 pounds gross registered vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, or gross combination weight rating, regardless of their dimensions are prohibited for both directions of traffic, except emergency vehicles, government owned, or government leased vehicles, vehicles engaged in the commercial delivery of rapidly setting concrete mixtures, vehicles making an actual pickup, delivery, providing services, or have an origin or final destination on or within three miles of the prohibited sections:
(A) Between the Ewing Township – Hopewell Township corporate line and the Hopewell Township – West Amwell Township corporate line (approximate mileposts 10.51 to 17.01).
2. In Hunterdon County:
i.  In the Township of West Amwell, the City of Lambertville, the Township of Delaware, the Borough of Stockton, the Township of Kingwood, and the Borough of Frenchtown:
(1) Trucks and truck-trailer combinations over 26,000 pounds gross registered vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, or gross combination weight rating, regardless of their dimensions are prohibited for both directions of traffic, except emergency vehicles, government owned, or government leased vehicles, vehicles engaged in the commercial delivery of rapidly setting concrete mixtures, vehicles making an actual pickup, delivery, providing services, or have an origin or final destination on or within three miles of the prohibited sections:
(A) Between the Hopewell Township – West Amwell Township corporate line and the northerly terminus of Route NJ 29 at Route NJ 12 (approximate mileposts 17.01 to 34.71).


Last updated date: March 4, 2020 9:34 AM