Comment 72891

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted January 10, 2012 at 08:07:13 in reply to Comment 72868

Every business where a truck may potentially deliver, should possibly have an official route to be taken assigned to it perhaps?

That's overkill. If the delivery is off of the official route, drivers are allowed to go off the designated streets as long as they do it in as direct a route as possible, then return to the truck route to carry on. This is not a problem.

The main problem is that our streets are designed so that it takes less time to drive through the city than around it.

The concept of truck routes is to keep through traffic on designated streets - in order to have control over where the large groupings of trucks travel. One-off trucks making deliveries don't pose problems to the degree that caravans of trucks all day and night do.

As far as understanding where the truck routes are -- well -- they are published by the city and well signed, and what else can I say but driving is a trucker's job and knowing the rules is part of it...

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