Vermilion Parish police juror concerned sugar cane trucks destroying shoulder of roads

A Vermilion Parish police juror, who is also a sugar cane farmer in the parish, brought up a new problem that is tearing up local roads.
Police juror Errol Domingue, a sugar cane farmer from Erath, spoke with Andrew Granger, an LSU Ag Extension Agent, about sugar cane trucks parked along the parish roads.’
When it is time to harvest, sugar cane farmers load 18 wheelers with sugar cane. The truck is driven to a sugar cane mill near Jeanerette, Baldwin or St. Martinville to unload the sugar cane.
During harvesting, this goes on for a couple of months, sometimes 24 hours a day until the cane is harvested.
Many parish farmers are now contracting the process of harvesting sugar cane with the sugar cane mill it hauls to. The mill now has its own trucks and harvesting equipment and will cut and haul sugar cane to the mill.
Instead of using three or four trucks to haul, the sugar mill has as many as 15 trucks at one location ready to haul.
While one truck is being loaded, 14 other trucks are parked along side of the road waiting.
Domingue said its dangerous to have that many trucks parked along the road, plus, it is also tearing up the shoulder.
Domingue advised Granger to begin talking to parish sugar farmers and warning them about having too many trucks parked along side of the road waiting to load.
He said if it continues, the police jury will look into stopping sugar cane trucks from parking along the road altogether.