California may close some of its rest areas just as new hours of service regulations are about to go into effect, increasing the need for truck parking spaces, KGTV TV in San Diego reported recently.

Included on the list is the the Aliso Creek Rest Stop on Interstate 5 inside Camp Pendleton, CA, the news station said. The rest area sits along the oceanside interstate halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego.

The decision is being driven, the TV station said, but the state’s continuing budget crisis. California officials are struggling to make up a multibillion-dollar deficit, and citizens have been so angered over the financial situation they recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected former actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to take his place.

However, discussion over possible closures comes just a month and a half before new federal hours-of-service rules go into effect. The new rules, announced earlier this year by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, require drivers to rest 10 hours a day, 2 hours more than previous requirements. Some in the industry have predicted the new rules will further aggravate the ongoing national shortage of truck parking spaces – even if California does not close any.

KGTV said the California Department of Transportation will decide in the next few weeks whether to close the Aliso Creek stop as well as three others in Imperial County.