All too often, cities and towns across America see trucks a nuisance. When people complain, laws are changed, truck bans are put in place, and fines are issued. Recently, another community complained about loud, smelly, noisy trucks using the roads in their town to transport goods. But this time, laws were changed to benefit truckers.
Near New Castle, Delaware, just outside of Wilmington, there’s a community called Pyles Lane. Residents there were complaining about trucks hauling goods between a local trucking company and the Port of Wilmington.
“Very frustrating to see this neighborhood go down the way it has gone down,” said one resident in an interview with The News Journal. “[The trucks] tore this road up like you wouldn’t believe. And the noise. And the vibrations of these homes. And the smell from diesel.”
The trucks were not technically supposed to be using the road due to restrictions put in place by DelDOT in 1971. So, the community complained to DelDOT, hoping they would put a stop to the truck traffic.
Instead, DelDOT changed the rules, allowing the trucks to continue using the road. According to a DelDOT spokesperson, enforcing the old law would likely put local trucking companies out of business. The spokesperson also pointed out that the trucks shouldn’t really be considered in violation anyway because they’re making local deliveries.
Now though, the residents are gearing up for a fight. They’ve hired a lawyer to represent them, and the New Castle County Council is reportedly toying with the idea of filing a lawsuit to force trucks to use a different road. An attorney representing a local trucking company at the center of the debate says that the road in question, Aldrich Lane, is too narrow for safe truck traffic.
“They don’t care about us, the residents,” said another local. “All they care about is the almighty dollar.”
Source: delawareonline, youtube
Well I know a drop yard that has no choice but to use pyles that’s where the only entrance is located the guy with the house directly across the street makes sure to hang signs against trucks and ocasionally will park just enough on the street to make it difficult I’d say trucks should slow down on that road
Yessir, slow and very courteous is the key for city drivers to get along with all the four wheel vehicles.
If I were in charge, I would stop all deliveries to the community. There is a price to pay for having goods available in a community. Deliver all goods to the closest warehousing facility. Then businesses can go get it there. Problem solved
Totally agree
They used horse and bugeys to deliver fright back in the old days if you don’t like trucks don’t go shopping or eat or get gas because everything you touch had to be brought in a truck
I agree. People then might reconsider when the shelves are empty or no gas at the stations.
city should rezone the area mixed use comercial/residential.
If they did not care about you [ the residents ] do you think they would be hauling stuff to your area so you could have what you need to live.
Not to be anti truck….. Maybe you should READ the story again.
By the way, who was on the road first? the houses or the trucking businesses?
There is plenty of countryside to live away from traffic if you don’t want to be around trucks, go live off grid so you don’t have to worry about a truck.
what would happen if you lived by a set of railroad tracks would you
sue them as well to many cry babies.
Your right.your rich foreigners that come here are trucking industrys biggest problem.they want the goods but dont want the noise.they want products but dont want trucks driving in their private little towns.their yuppies with political power and create a nightmare for the trucking industry.
I am sure they would have sued the R/R to have the tracks moved!! Right?
That’s like living by the airport, and demanding they change the flight path.
Bingo!
I remember reading about a “planned community” in the South that was built near a hog farm. EVERY person buying a house there was told about he farm and the possibility (probability) of the smells drifting on the wind. They all bought their homes anyway. After a few years, and realizing what they had agreed to, the homeowners sued the farmer and put him out of business because of the smell. Don’t put any bass ackwards decision beyond the realm of possibility in today’s courts.
Who was first has no relevance genius. If the road is legal for trucks they use it. Ya its that simple
It really is that simple and here’s another reason. Who was there first is irrelevant because what came first the grocery store or the homes. Stores need trucks as does any company that makes a product
Actually when asked the question what was there first the truck or the home. The answer is simple it was the truck to deliver the materials for the home. So it’s clear the truck was there long before the home. Dump truck, the truck that hauled the excavator for the foundation, the concrete trucks.
And – how many of the residents lived there before the trucks came in? Would you move in at the end of an active runway then sue to have the airport shut down? (I know if an instance where this happened – the judge threw it out.)
I would like to know where that happened about moving in at end of runway. Having a friend at an airport, where this is happening and he has an airplane there. Maybe this would help him. Thank you
Exactly… in Virginia a community attempted to protest against Jet noise/fuel smells but THEY chose to purchase homes near the Naval Air Station (TRAINING) Base…
Same thing happened in MN at the big airport – people that lived around the airport thought they were going to get the airport to move – didn’t work for them!!
Well I agree the trucks are taking and bringing things for the people in that community and state use to make their lives easier and more comfortable. Everybody want cheap products from the local grocery store and wal-mart but you want it without it interfering with your way of life. Suck it up and realize before it can come to your home it has to be put onto a truck or into a truck and delivered to your local store before you can purchase it and take it home. So you can’t have it both ways people, cheap products and no trucks in your neighborhood when the port is in you neighborhood…..its not going to happen!!!
The residents around the downtown Atlanta CSX yard have and continue to sue to shut down one of the busiest train yards in the south. I mean, it’s only been there since the very beginning of Atlanta and it only supplies freight to like every single business and home within a 300 mile radius.
There were no problems when it was a poor ghetto and people only cared about having a home on the bus line so they could get to work. In the last 10 years the place is over run with yuppies and new gentry. Bringing all their stupid coffee shops and restaurants. Suddenly the train yard is a nuisance and the only truck route, the only road period, into the place should allow bikes and dog walkers only. These people don’t care about what came before. They expect their piles of cash to automatically make the world move our of their way.
And the world should and will move out of the way. It’s called “PROGRESS”. Without progress, we would still be riding horses instead of cars. Everything in life changes and so will the trucking industry and the gasoline powered engines they use.
Not a trucker. Obviously. No freight for you. Stay outta Walmart. Trucking changes everyday but won’t be going away anytime soon, therefore surface roads will have to endure the “evil” 18 wheeled traffic.
that shows how much you really know about a truck! they run on diesel fuel dummy!!!!!
Trucks dont use gasoline….
Same thing happened over at the Inman CSX Yard!! People complaining about trucks but didn’t realize they moved on the street with the main entrance!!!
How many people bought houses knowing that it was an active truck route and then complained?
Most times it’s the business that was first. Pretty hard to get a residential area zoned for commercial. Vancouver BC they built condos on the waterfront, people moved in then started complaining about the sea planes.
Let them run out of everything and then they might appreciate a truck..!! Without us, the world is naked and hungry.!! But they don’t like or need us..!!
You have been in trucking way too long!
Yes. They dont haul stuff as a community service. They haul it for the profit.
No other reason.
Of course they haul for profit. It’s called being in business and has been in effect for thousands of years. However, without the shipping business your community wouldn’t exist. Whether moved by plane, train or ship everything must be relocated by truck. Ban trucks on every road and highway and the world will be naked, homeless and hungry. Then tell me they are still a nusiance.
I say stop using that road but at the same time stop servicing all of the local retailers in the area . Then let’s see how much the residents in the area like traveling an additional 30 miles or so to get a gallon of milk or a newspaper. People want all of the things that trucks and drivers bring out don’t want the trucks. Kind of like they all want beef but don’t want to butcher the cow.
Drivers are grossly unappreciated and that needs to change.
Trucks are necessary to deliver everything everyone owns and uses and maintains and discards….
Fix the road, erect noise barrier walls and trees, and provide alternative roads, and install better windows….
Solutions exist.
There are no chronic problems, only chronic excuses and chronic complaining.
People complain about trucks and they treat us drivers like dirt. If they don’t want trucks, I guess they don’t want food either since truck are used to deliver it..
You get treated due to the way you behave and present yourself. Nothing else. Drive ans act like fools that is how you will be treated.It really isn’t hard to be treated like a professional.Just be one. I know for 99% of the truck drivers today that is a challenge to high for them.OK 97 %. Look at how drivers present them selves now. sloppy, foul mouth,trashy. inconsiderate. And would rather take video of another driver needing help than go help them.
Wont listen to common sense advice. look act like they live in the trash dumpster at the truck stop,I miss the good ol days of trucking. Pride , respect and the hand shake with the thank you
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Me,too!
If the complaint is noisy trucks, road damage, and diesel fumes the drivers could get out in suits and this particular problem would still exist
Oh like 4 wheelers drive so great. They cut trucks off, sit in their blindspots & pull out in front of them. Yet it’s the truckers hauling 80k for hitting them. Get a clue truckers make your life easy 🙄
Easy fix dont deliver nothing to that town ever ill bet they be crying whares our food in our grocery stores
I’m not familiar with the area, and I have driven, still have avalid CDL. However , this thought had occurred to me when I was 11yrs old. Why, in these situations, don’t cities have hubs set up. A warehouse on the outskirts of town where big trucks deliver and smaller box trucks deliver to the businesses in those oddball areas. As a kid my parents owned a business, our deliveries were brought in by tractor trailer. Driver had to turn down a narrow alley behind the stores and block the entire Ally to deliver. It was a one lane alley. With bank traffic on one side of us and a jewelry store and convenience store on the other side. I think it would be a simple solution. Costs would have to go up obviously.
I quit trucking a while ago because it’s a trash life. Don’t act like truckers are saints. You clods still speed and make bonehead moves and tailgate like you own the damn road ever single day. Respect truckers? Ha!
You’re pretending like you’re hauling freight out of the goodness of your heart. You’re hauling it for pay, plain and simple.
Guess you do your job for pure pleasure
Don’t like trucks? Then stop buying stuff. Of course we are hauling it for pay. We wouldn’t haul it for free to cater to cry baby truck haters. There are idiots in all walks of life and you prove to be one of them. As far as I’m concerned all truck haters should be stripped naked and dropped into the middle of a bush hundreds of miles away from civilization. Then let’s see how you survive without trucks.
you half wits think you own the road just because you live on it
this country survives on goods being moved you wine and complain
when the grocery store doesn’t have what you want the job you
have needs the supplies to operate without trucks there’s no need
for you
Truth be told you quit because you couldn’t handle the life.
Hauling freight for pay, now that’s a novel idea. I’m pretty sure that’s why you work at any job, FOR THE PAY.
What do you do to feed and house yourself, sam
When we pay $2750 per year for tags, $550 per year for HUT, $0.17 per gal fuel tax at the pump, IFTA, Road use, and many other things that DIRECTLY goes to infrastructure, then YES, WE OWN THE ROADS. It’s your elected politicians that pocket the money rather than repair roads.
The problem is in your mirror.the fact that you couldnt cut it has nothing to do with the story. Ya driving is about making money. The same as every other job. Maybe if you earned a living you would know that
Yep I can tell by the way you talk you’ve never even seen the inside of a truck, keep driving that desk there super trucker.
Don’t lump all us truck drivers with the steering wheel holders. There are those of us who see this as an honorable profession, and act like it.
Your generalization is as bad and as ridiculous as saying “all blacks are criminals” or “all whites are racist” or “Jews control the world”.
And you talk about US speeding and tailgating – yesterday, I was on a 4 lane road in Iowa, 65 mph speed limit, and I was going almost 75 at one point – and STILL had the cars fighting each other and tailgating each other trying to get around me, because I wasn’t going fast enough! (I dropped back to 68 after my “experiment”.) This is common.
Well no crap Sherlock homes. You quit trucking because you couldn’t handle it.
I will admit there are truckers that don’t care. But the vast majority of us do. And I will say that I get cut off by “residents” every day because they think I am going too slow. I only ever do 5 mph over max. I get passed by 4 wheelers doing 75 – 85 mph in a 55 mph zone. Who is the one in the wrong. I see more “residents” speeding in excess on all roads than I ever see trucks doing the same thing.
Finally to get respect you have to give respect. This attitude everyone seems to have will never fix any issue. If the road is residential then the trucks should’nt be there. If the road is mixed then they can. It’s that simple.
Honestly if you want to open up peoples eyes designate truck only roads and make the residents drive 30 to 60 miles out of their way every time they want to go somewhere and that will give them an idea of what its like when they put restrictions on a major pass through.
@samuel
You quit trucking? Driving a pickup truck isn’t the same thing, no matter what the dealer said when you bought it. It’s still a pickup.
Trucking is not s trash life. It’s what you make it. I’m knocking on the 2 million mile door. I’m healthy, in shape and make a good living. I don’t believe you were a truck driver and if you were, I bet you didn’t last a full year.
Like 4 wheelers don’t speed, cut us off and slam on breaks in front of us because they miss the turn on a road they travel every day! Don’t try and blame us drivers for everything that happens on the road! Both parties have faults!
Sounds like somebody couldn’t make it as a trucker..lol go back to ur cubicle went didn’t want u out here anyway 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣
So what your saying is you go to work for no pay? Or maybe the pay I do receive is helping to support you and your family. I really find it hard to believe you even made that comment.
I say give them what they want. Let the local business suffer. Let people lose their jobs and companies. Bring ALL freight to that town to a halt. Let the selves go empty, no gas, no cars, no new mobile homes. And whole ever does scab over there gets 3 times the going rate.
What I don’t understand, these people whine about roads being bad, but uh, do you realize you live in a state that gets hot and cold weather and that has a huge impact on roads? What about snow plows? Want them to leave too? What about chemical factories near you polluting the air? Want them to leave too? The remark about “they just care about the money” well yeah, so don’t you. That’s why you break the law to get to work or do things in your favor. The last thing, “smell of diesel “ exscuse me moron, but last I check majority of trucks are carb compliant, you can’t smell diesel. Just sounds like a typical, I want what I want so I say things society says before to get my way kind of reply. Stop buying shit if this is how you feel. Seriously. I’m tired of this stupid war on truckers when we have worse things to worry about, like our government.
And how do you think all that stuff got into your local WalMart?? It was brought in by trucks so that you people can have the necessities that you need to live! Truckers would gladly stop coming through your town and you can drive out to the nearest other town to go get your stuff!! But even with then…. How do you think your packages from fed-ex or ups gets to your door?? By trucks!! So yeah let’s see how you will live without truckers!! And don’t forget…. even truckers bring in gasoline to your local gas station…. which you will need to fill up your car to just get out of town to go get your stuff in the 1st place!!
DelDOT should have the road repaved to better accommodate trucks.
Road’s too narrow? Widen it.
Road being torn up because it can’t handle the weoght of the trucks? Repave it with a better foundation.
Come on. This is what the government SHOULD be doing. It’s their responsibility to provide and maintain good infrastructure.
making the road wider is not the answer. it is working together. Drivers displaying courtesy and consideration. drive like their families are in the car they are tailgating or along side them. Lets face it that is asking far too much of most of todays truck drivers, sorry, my bad… steering wheel holders. An example is the drivers that can’t think for themselves and let the all knowing GPS do their thinking for them.That is how they end up on the NY boardwalk or in PA on a historical site. They don’t even know when they run out of pavement.That is the future of trucking if something isn’t done and soon.Not an easy fix by any stretch of the imagination. The pros are not part of the problem. They have to put up with problems brought on by the steering wheel holders.
correct. The problem is now no one wants to pay any tax to help maintain the roads. How do you want to pay…..gas tax or tolls?
Since trucks do more road damage, they should pay more road taxes to repair the roads.
they do pay more road tax it’s called a heavy use tax (HUT)
starts at $550 a year on top of the usual $1500-$2000 a year
thats per unit, that’s about the same as property taxes for one
house
We pay out over $8000 in taxes before a wheel gets turned to make money, and ridiculous fuel taxes all year long.
Then MORE at the end of the year if it hasn’t been overpaid every quarter, on top of that.
Just to have the title switched in my state would run around $17,000.
Personally, I wish I could get out of the biz, but jerks like you take discrimination to a whole new level, so anyone that has been on the road has a hard time finding a job on the ground.
As I tell all you spoiled brats, I can’t wait for the day we get a CME or EMP.
You’ll never appreciate anything you’ve never worked for or just take for granted.
Well we truckers just need to get together and just shut down for a few days. I can afford it. Then we’ll see how many of the opinionated people start asking for their stuff again cause their running out.
Blablabla you know how long they have been saying that ive been driving just over 40 years and i was hearing that when i started driving.
Well Samuel I guess you weren’t cut out for the life. We all do jobs, not because we love it, we do it to get paid. I’m sure your working for free now, right? I’ve been out here 41 years. I can remember a lot more than you ever knew about trucker’s. It has changed I’ll give you that. But I’ve also seen the bonehead crap 4 wheelers do as well. I’m sure your one of those now.
Everything you touch is delivered by trucks. Try to live like you do now without a single truck on the road.
I looked it up.
A place called “Port to Port International Corporation” is right on that road. All the houses are to the West. Truck traffic should just go right out of there, no houses built there except 5 built right across the street from the entrance, which are probably the ones complaining anyway. And judging by the way the entrance is flanged open to the east, I’m pretty sure that’s their intended direction anyway.
And that road is indeed narrow but there’s room to widen it to the south.
better solution, use eminent domain, widen it & take the 5 houses, saw a road near me widened, they took all houses even though most would have been closer to road, & about the same as houses on opposite side of the road, but road was widened that direction.
t was a small 2 lane road, but a few miles out, some developer sold land & made an industrial complex out a side road off of this road, so a lot of industrial manufacturing companies located there, & due to excess of truck traffic, the DOT widened the road, & they choose to widen on side with more houses, but was a straighter path.
The more I hear of cities, couties, states wanting to stop or eliminate trucking the more I want to do is quit delivering there. Wonder who they would sue when there is no gas, no food, no nothing for sale?
Just a month should prove a lot to them.
Have all the stores lay off people, gas station close and see what they have done get undone.
I think it is called ‘progress. The only uncertain thing is when it will come to ‘YOUR’ street. It might be wise to map out truck free zones as soon as possible,or else it is just a matter of time.
It’s easy. Which came first? The port? Or the community?
In general, most newer trucks are cleaner and quieter than ever before.
Have the great state of Delaware widen the road …just a bit.
Trucks might slow down ….just a bit.
Courtesy folks…courtesy.
Good idea , however it is not the trucks causing the issue. It is the numbnuts behind the wheel that are causing the problem. I don’t see how the townsfolk can smell the diesel unless the trucks are leaking it like crazy. it is the drivers of today that lack common sense and a small amount of courtesy for others. Widening the roadway.? Townsfolk would not go for that because it is for trucks. 40 years ago they might have, we had respect back then.
Well I think we might be missing something here. Who owns the road? Where did the money come from to build it? Who has the authority to say some can use it but others can’t? I think we all know the bulk of the money used to build and maintain roads is collected from the trucking industry!
They should boycott the trucks, stop buying what trucks deliver, that will remove the need for trucks. 🤦♂️
My first reaction is to ask if there is a reasonable alternate route that MOST trucks can be guided toward?
yes, the present lane is a legal route, but sometimes discretion is a better way to go. If a reasonable alternate route is available eliminating 90% of the truck traffic, this may be a compromise that works.
I’d Jake Brake the sh!+ out of that town!
Well, as a driver for many years I’ve seen it get worse. Some drivers dont even know the English language as they’re are required. I’m sick of other drivers playing highway games with me and you know what they are. Boxing me in so I cant pass, letting me pass you & then speed up so I cant get out of the left lane, slowing down when your in front of me pretending you can hardly pass the truck in front of you holding me back and then as you pass the slow truck you speed up. Throw your trash on ramps and then wonder why we get ticketed now, walmart is fed up with trash and blocking 4wheelers or ruining landscape. Cutting off 4wheelers everyday who’ve done nothing wrong and most yield to us. Bullying your way through congested traffic as if your special and everyone get out of the way. Arrogance is the new norm out here! Frankly. Most of my depression out here comes from the lack of respect for each driver anymore.
Doesnt matter what the residents or the city wants, Title 49 U.S.C has a provision that blocks them from restricting the price, route and service of a motor carrier. So score one for the trucking industry.
I live in a small town of 1200 population. We have small business and a feed elevator. The local chicken farmer owns the feed mill.. The issue is that some of the grain haulers in to the elevator have not a clue how or when to use the engine brake. 2 am or 12 noon and in a 30 mph speed zone. Some drivers think because the switch that says engine brake is there it has to be used. Kind of like swift drivers and the fog lights. The city council passed an ordnance of no engine braking within city limits. Town even put large signs on the main highway. Ignored. So the owner of the feed mill told them if you use your engine brake in town limits and I find out you will not contract with me again. For some reason it has gotten quiet now when the trucks go through town.Except for one numb skull.. I guess the potential empty pocket book speaks louder than common sense and courtesy. Our towns folk complained about the engine brake noise, not the trucks them selves.
I don’t know the story there but I’ve seen towns here get by with rerouting trucks for the same reasons given. The problem I have is my road taxes go to the state. No town should have a right to redirect state routed roads. Town road yes. If its a town road ID ask myself does the town want to keep this port or lose it? Sometimes people buy the wrong house in the wrong area then complain. If its a truck route then improve the road to handle it.
I just dont get those people,they wouldn’t nothing to eat or wear or whatever without trucks deliveries those goods,suck it up idiots
So dont make any deliveries to the town..let them go either to to next town to get their stuff..or down to the rail head..i bet the trucks were using this road.. long before most of these residents moved in..and they knew beforehand that there were trucks using this road..
That’s what I say stop delivering there and let them put more wear and tear on there vehicles but wait they just complain about the county giving them what they want once they realize they didnt have to go to the next town just to get what they need just because they dont want trucks there I say give them what they want but stop trucks from bringing anything in the entire town make them go to the next town and then sit back and wa6ch how they still complain
Tell all the trucking companys to stop delivering to that town then see what happens
This story is not really about Truck drivers. Truck drivers go where they are told and use any legal route to get there. This story is about residents, the town and the truck companies. The Truck driver is again caught in the crossfire because he/ she is driving a truck, which by the way are smelly, loud, and at times a nuisance. This could all be worked out between the truck companies the town, and the residents, with proper leadership. Just my opinion. A retired Trucker.
Umbrellaman, I don’t know any commercial 18 wheeler that uses gasoline you numbnuts. It’s called diesel fuel. The engine inside the truck is diesel, not gas. It works way different than the gasoline engine. Next time if you want to comment about big trucks…don’t. Do some research first, or you’ll look a fool. About ” stopping progress”. The people who want to stop truck traffic are the ones trying to stop progress. Think about it numbnuts.
I guess that town has too small of a road for their motor homes travel trailers and horse trailers. Perhaps they should pay for. Bigger better road. The town makes money off of the trucking industry there . Let’s see they want deliveries but no trucks. They want driving and industry jobs but no trucks. I’m surprised they haven’t ordered the trucking businesses to leave. What came first the trucking businesses or the housing that needed trucks to bring materials to build the houses? I get it they moved there to complain about the trucks.
It would be nice if we just didn’t have to be there, if the companies would build
their facilities far away from the ingrates of the world our lives would be much
easier, that is until they build a subdivision next door LOL!! I wish we could shut
em down for a week all of them that damm sure get their attention no more
tofu for you LOL!! people seem to think well kinda think that your a paid servant a non human thing that’s only purpose in life is to serve their needs, our purpose
is to service the economy that include those ingrates who buy the commodities
we move without a market we wouldn’t have a job, our job is to complete the
main two markets want and need, I want that car but I need them groceries
everything in between supports them your not gods gift your just another
link in the chain, it’s a shame the ingrates don’t recognise your purpose of
being there were all special don’t ya know, a pat on the back or an at a boy
goes a long way a little appreciation would be nice but don’t expect it truck
drivers are no different than the 4 wheelers that move your families on
same roads, I would rather not have trucks tearing up the roads in front of
my house but it is what it is everyone’s entitled to their opinion sa long as
you keep it to yourselves LOL!!
Build them their own road in and out of where they need to be and I just bet they would use it, make it just for trucks, as I promise it is not in any drivers aspirations to needlessly put up with idiots and their driveways on narrow roads
let alone self righteous idiots..
There’s no sense in arguing or trying to reason with a bunch of deadbeats, they’re bored 😑 they realize their lives are repetitive and meaningless and here’s a chance to VENT.
If they had any common sense they’d realize we hate having to drive through residential areas, if you think we enjoy it? WRONG, WE DON’T.
Oh, PS, we also hate driving with 🚗 cars 🚙 too.
Everytime the States try to build roads just for trucks only, take a wild guess who always votes it down?
Yep, the same complaining deadbeats.
A little bit of research reveals…
Port to Port International Corp (32 Pyles Lane) was founded in 1998.
53 Pyles Lane (across from the entrance, with a “stop the trucks” sign visible on Google Street View) was purchased in August 1999 for $89,900 (1400 sq ft. $64 per sq ft.) Current value about the same, $91k.
Average home price for Wilmington: $112 per sq ft.
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metro average price: $143 per sq ft.
So you get your home at 1/2 price BECAUSE it is across the street from an area zoned INDUSTRIAL, and you want to get the courts to put a $20 million per year company out of business, so the value of your 1920s home might increase $60,000k. Screw all the people employed by the company. Screw all the people served by the transportation of goods by the company.
“I got my home cheap, and I want to sell it for more, than I paid for it the year AFTER this corporation was founded.”
Maybe Teresa Gilliam shouldn’t have bought a house less 3500 ft. from the Port of Wilmington?
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7144129,-75.5432596,3a,38.5y,14.17h,68.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9j46Sb1S0qGey2O922iUXg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/New-Castle-DE/pmf,pf_pt/72929196_zpid/26091_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/39.715045,-75.542305,39.713665,-75.544708_rect/18_zm/
Pull up Pyles Lane and the Port of Wilmington in google maps.
This neighbourhood is boxed in on 4 sides by trucking businesses and I-495. My first trucking job saw me pulling cans out of port to the Christiana Truck Stop, and nearly a decade later I used to deliver furniture and kitchen appliances just down the street.
It’s an industrial neighbourhood, and I think DelDOT did the right thing by changing the law to reflect the reality.
I wish the DOT in my area would consider doing the same thing, as there are many older, direct routes to my customers that are prohibited to trucks because of the NIMBYs who bought property out of the city core.
I’m a truck driver. I understand that that trucks make a lot of noise. Maybe making a bypass? But people are complaining about trucks. Industries will usually build out away from people. Then people will build up around and then complain about the trucks. Like people do with airports.
When I am required to go through residential areas to deliver, usually it turns out that someone repurposed farm land into industrial use. Makes me wonder about zoning issues.
Ok stop making local deliveries then the residents can complain about higher cost of goods being shipped in with box truck companies or they’ll complain about no goods in the stores to buy. Simple as that don’t want the trucks in your neighborhood then fine drive an extra 20-50 miles to get your goods. Come on now your house is vibrating because of big rigs?? Get out of your cardboard box home then, I’ve never heard of a house vibrating because of Big Rigs LMBO!!
Issue a bond. Build a big nice road for the trucks a short distance away, or widen and strengthen the existing road… Then tax the hell out of the property owners to pay for it!
Trucks are vital to the economy! Without them, we go backward 120 years!
im so tired of people complaining about our truck drivers THEY NEED TO STOP AND PEOPLE NEED TO BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT THEY DO IF IT WASNT FOR THEM SACRIFICING THIER FAMILYS AND THIER SLEEP AND DRIVIN. THEM TRUCKS YA ALL WOULDNT HAVE ANYTHING EVERYTHING IS THINK ABOUT JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IN THE STORES GET THERE HOW ?? TRUCK DRIVERS SO DAM CUT THEM SOME SLACK RESPECT THEM AND ANOTHER THING STOP DRIVING IN THIER BLIND SPOTS AND TRYING TO CUT THEM OFF CAUSE THEY CANT STOP THOSE TRUCKS ON A DIME SO IF U W ONE OF THOSE INCONSIDERATE DRIVERS WHO DRIVE SMALLER TRUCKS AND CARS AND YA PULL OUT IN FRONT OF THEM U DESERVE TO BE HIT
HOW I KNOW MY HUSBAND IS A TRUCK DRIVER IVE BEEN WITH HIM LOTS OF TIMES OTR HE HAS TO PUT UP WITH IGNORANT SELFISH PEOPLE EVERYDAY
SO THINK TWICE BEFORE U DISRESPECT A TRUCK DRIVER !!!!!
You need to think about that next time you wipe your butt. THEN THANK GOD ! THERE IS TRUCKS AN DRIVERS.
Ellysburg, Pa tried to ban truck traffic. Rejected. Town of rich an politicians. Loosere
Propose an alternate road to bypass the neighborhood for trucking. Tax the town to build any new road required. The neighborhood could vote on it so they had a say in the matter. Issuing a mandate to stop this or that still leaves a problem. Let the town/neighborhood decide for themselves and move on to the next issue. I suspect it’s just a couple complainers otherwise it would have been made a matter for local government. I don’t care if I’m right or not; just my 2 cents.