Those old black-and-white truck route signs with pointing arrows directing the vehicles down main arteries in Thousand Oaks may soon be history.

At a public hearing during the City Council meeting that begins at 6 p.m. Tues., July 14, council members could vote to remove the signs.

There are currently eight of them around town, engineering manager John Helliwell said.

It won't really affect anything one way or another when the signs come down, he said.

"It's really a housekeeping thing. We're bringing the city up to modern times by taking the signs down because they are no longer needed. The freeways are the truck routes now," Helliwell said.

The truck routes were created in the 1970s and updated in 1991, he said. They include Lynn, Moorpark, Erbes and Olsen roads, Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Hillcrest Drive, he said.

If the council votes to remove the signs, trucks—even 18wheelers that are over 12,000 pounds— will still be able to drive on those roads. Residents move and businesses need things delivered, Helliwell said.

If the signs are removed they'll be recycled.

"They'll repaint them and put something else on them," he said.

No estimate of how much it would cost to remove the signs was immediately available.

—Nancy Needham