HILL COUNTY, Texas — With April 8's total solar eclipse expected to bring in hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Central Texas area, traffic is expected to be a major concern.
In an effort to help alleviate some of the traffic worries, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) has announced that it will not allow any size/weight permitted travel in dozens of counties across the path of totality, shared Hill County Emergency Management.
From midnight to midnight on April 8, size/weight permitted travel will not be allowed in over 80 counties, including many in Central Texas.
Those counties include:
Anderson, Atascosca, Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Bowie, Brown, Burnet, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Coleman, Collin, Comal, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Dimmit, Edwards, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Franklin, Freestone, Frio, Gillespie, Grayson, Gregg, Hamilton, Harrison, Hays, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Lamar, Lampasas, Leon, Limestone, Llano, Marion, Mason, Maverick, McLennan, McCulloch, Medina, Menard, Milam, Mills, Morris, Navarro, Parker, Rains, Real, Red River, Robertson, Rockwall, San Saba, Smith, Somervell, Sutton, Tarrant, Titus, Travis, Upshur, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Williamson, Wood and Zavala.
For more information, contact the TxDMV Permit Office at 1-800-299-1700, option 2.
For more eclipse coverage, visit KCENTV.com/eclipse.
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