In an “urgent survey” from the Big Apple, they ask truckers to help them understand where they have to park due to the absolute lack of truck parking in the five boroughs.
You have the normal run-of-the-mill survey questions about you, your business, and what you are doing in the city. Then there is the map…
New York wants to know EXACTLY where you park…
Smooth, New York, real smooth. Hmm, where is trucking parking a problem? You’d expect a city with an intelligence budget larger than some nation’s entire budget to know exactly where that is.
But apparently, New York wants us to snitch where everyone is parking now. “Eh, why should we have to look for them when they’ll just tell us where if we make it sound urgent enough?”
Mayor Adam’s Truck Parking Task Force sent out a survey, linked here for your viewing pleasure, wanting respondents to list everything they see and where they see it.
Night idling, blocked hydrants, and noise is on the list. Suspiciously missing are more serious matters like cargo theft, prostitution, drug dealing, human trafficking, and catalytic converter theft. Real serious problems New York is facing.
We ask you to tell us to do it so we don’t look like the bad guys
In typical political theater, the city council has prepared a resolution to send up to the state legislature that caught my attention looking into said bunch of cronies. It looks like the current fines aren’t biting the wallets of drivers enough, so they want bigger dentures to use.
Here’s a bit of the text from one of the resolutions. Prepare for some very British-sounding “whereas”:
Whereas, S.3259, which was introduced in January of 2021 by Senator Leroy Comrie, seeks to increase the fines for overnight parking on New York City residential streets of tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers, and semi-trailers on residential streets in the city of New York; and
Whereas, S.3259 would increase the fine for an initial violation from $250 to $400 and a subsequent violation, within a six-month period, would be charged $800, up from $500; and
Whereas, S.3258, which was introduced in January of 2021 by Senator Comrie, also seeks to deter illegal parking; and
Whereas, Under this bill, a person responsible for a trailer or semi trailer that is left parked or unattended in an area like New York City, would be fined $1,000;
If you keep reading the script, if you can stand the “whereas,” you see this little nugget of joy: Whereas, At the moment, the capped fines are minimal enough to be factored in as a cost of doing business;
So are we saying the current pain and suffering drivers are facing is “the cost of doing business?” Now, in typical New York mobster fashion, they want to charge more for the “protective services” and really start breaking some fingers as you dig into your wallet for what little profit we make now.
But oh, it won’t be because we wanted to, it will be because the mean ol’ state government told us to. Typical blame-shifting befitting of the current political circus we are faced with at all levels.
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