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Thursday, February 17, 2005
Truck Driver Fight Back Against Tractor Trailer Ban on Alamo City Streets
Truck Driver Fight Back Against Tractor Trailer Ban on Alamo City StreetsThe Monitor, McAllen, Texas02/16/2005 00::
Feb. 16--ALAMO -- Truck drivers descended on the City Council meeting Tuesday evening to protest a city ordinance prohibiting tractor trailers from city streets.
"The truckers built this town, and now they're punting us out without any place to go," said Dewey Halbrook, the owner of a local trucking business.
The ordinance bans trucks from the majority of city streets, forcing drivers to find a location outside city limits to park their tractor trailers. The City Council passed the ordinance in early 2003, and while the law has yet to be enforced the drivers expressed their displeasure to the council following Tuesday's meeting.
"You guys just have your little cars. You don't have big trucks like us; you don't understand," said Isaac Garcia.
Garcia owns two trucks, which he keeps in a lot close to his house. If police start enforcing the ordinance he would be forced to park his trucks outside city limits.
"I'm going to have to find a place to park the trucks and then I got to get a ride out there every day," he said.
Alamo Community Planning and Development Director Jaime Sandoval tabled the ordinance last year after receiving complaints from city residents about trucks driving through residential areas. On Tuesday evening he tried to placate the drivers.
"If you look at it, they don't really enforce it," he said.
"It took you a whole year to find out about this." Halbrook only discovered the ordinance after his son noticed a sign on Tower Road stating that trucks were prohibited. He quickly printed up 300 copies of the law and distributed them throughout the trucking community.
Now Halbrook plans on getting rid of the truck ban any way he can.
"If we don't get it repealed, there are enough truckers to get a couple commissioners out in the next election," he said.
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Feb. 16--ALAMO -- Truck drivers descended on the City Council meeting Tuesday evening to protest a city ordinance prohibiting tractor trailers from city streets.
"The truckers built this town, and now they're punting us out without any place to go," said Dewey Halbrook, the owner of a local trucking business.
The ordinance bans trucks from the majority of city streets, forcing drivers to find a location outside city limits to park their tractor trailers. The City Council passed the ordinance in early 2003, and while the law has yet to be enforced the drivers expressed their displeasure to the council following Tuesday's meeting.
"You guys just have your little cars. You don't have big trucks like us; you don't understand," said Isaac Garcia.
Garcia owns two trucks, which he keeps in a lot close to his house. If police start enforcing the ordinance he would be forced to park his trucks outside city limits.
"I'm going to have to find a place to park the trucks and then I got to get a ride out there every day," he said.
Alamo Community Planning and Development Director Jaime Sandoval tabled the ordinance last year after receiving complaints from city residents about trucks driving through residential areas. On Tuesday evening he tried to placate the drivers.
"If you look at it, they don't really enforce it," he said.
"It took you a whole year to find out about this." Halbrook only discovered the ordinance after his son noticed a sign on Tower Road stating that trucks were prohibited. He quickly printed up 300 copies of the law and distributed them throughout the trucking community.
Now Halbrook plans on getting rid of the truck ban any way he can.
"If we don't get it repealed, there are enough truckers to get a couple commissioners out in the next election," he said.
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