LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – If you work or travel through the Las Vegas Strip corridor and convention center, you’re not the only one dealing with daily traffic snarls, but cones, construction, and now dozens of big rigs with loads of dirt.

“It’s a lot of them, it’s very time-consuming and it takes them an awful long time to get through traffic,” Keisha Kennard who drives down Desert Inn Road every day explained. “It’s taking us forever to get anywhere from Desert Inn Road to Rainbow Boulevard and it’s ridiculous.”

It’s also busy by the Las Vegas Convention Center. “All day the trucks go in and out, but I don’t know what they are really doing,” James Scott who lives nearby the convention center said.

8 News Now set to find out what the trucks were doing and where they were coming from. These trucks pick up dirt from the old empty Rivera lot by the Las Vegas Convention Center and deliver it to the Durango Pit 10 miles away.

A spokesman for the Las Vegas Convention Center told 8 News Now the excavation, fill, and compaction work at the 10-acre Rivera site was requested by the buyers of the land. Those buyers are the Fontainebleau and another developer called 65SLVB with a price tag of more than $125 million.

The trucks transporting dirt are a result of all the work on the site which is expected to last through August. But it’s frustrating for those living and working near all of it.

“This whole area when it gets crazy and they have to come out you might be sitting here for 10 to 15 minutes with trucks going in and out because they are more important than the people going through Vegas,” Scott said.

For some drivers, it brings up safety concerns and worries about debris.

“I like to be away from them because sometimes it seems like when the wind is blowing, they are swaying back and forth like that they don’t have full control of the truck,” Kennard said. “They should find a different route.”

Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom said they will cite any of the trucks if debris falls onto the roadways that go through the county. So far, no damage has been reported.

As for the land involved, both companies will have to close on the land by November 1. If one company can’t buy the land, then the other one is on the hook for all of it. No word on plans for the site but the agenda item states the land should be of comparable quality to new construction like the Fontainebleau and the Las Vegas Convention Center West.

The trucks will continue rolling down the road through August.

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