What hours does the new ordinance actually cover? If it is only until 5-6am, then indeed truckers would have the ability to idle at an outlying truckstop and still beat the rush-hour traffic into the city in the morning to unload. Quite often, the motivating factor (for a trucker) to idle overnight at a place of business is to be "first in-line" for unloading the next morning.
I am not saying that I am a proponent of this ordinance and yes, I do believe that many of the council members have developed a "fiefdom" mentaliy. However, the inconvenience (to the trucking industry) may not be as large an inconvenience as we initially think. As for not buying a house in a neighborhood where trucks idle overnight - I doubt very seriously that anyone would view a prospective property to purchase in the middle of the night. Consequently, you might not become aware of the issue until the first night you tried to get a good nights' sleep...
dennis plante jordan
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