The winter weight season ended in southern Saskatchewan this past Friday.

Winter weights typically come on in December every year and allow truckers to haul higher-than-usual secondary weight when the roads have hardened from the cold. This allows truckers to take advantage of the fact that the roads are less susceptible to heavy truck damage. They are usually taken off at the end of March.

This year there have also been some changes to secondary weight.

"In June, rather than the secondary weight only period ending at the end of June in the southern part of the province it will end in the middle of June," said the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure, Doug Wakabayashi. "So it allows farmers and truckers to haul primary weights sooner, recognizing the roads thaw out and dry out faster in the southern part of the province."

So now, they will be starting three month secondary weight restriction in the southern part of the province about two weeks earlier than the rest of the province.

As for the spring road bans, those will be started at the end of the month.