More trucks causing damage
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Just now, near 13th and Garden, a white Isuzu truck (NY plate 3726JV) hit a parked car.
The responding officer said “You gotta be kidding me! I just gave her directions to New York City!”
I mean the more populated Hoboken gets, it seems that someone either secretly made the streets narrower to jam more condos in, or maybe it’s just the congestion of parked vehicles. Perhaps it might be a good idea to RESTRICT the size of delivery vehicles in this town. Even those Fresh Direct trucks stick out too much. If these companies want to do business in town, they should have smaller trucks. It’s been done in other cities or neighborhoods.
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July 31st 2007 - 22:46:32 |
About that caption (“eventually…hoboken will become a destruction derby”): um….I think it already is.
For years now I’ve been calling the place a “slow motion demolition derby.” Why people drop north of $35K on a car and then get it shredded over the course of a few years by parking it in the street is something I’ll never understand. But hey, their car; their money, etc.
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July 31st 2007 - 23:36:43 |
Most of those “Box Trucks” fall under the weight limit for having a CDL license to drive it- so believe it or now, you, me or anybody else that can hardly drive a dodge neon and legally hop behind the wheel of one of those trucks and drive around town.
I do think the fresh direct trucks are large enough to require drivers that have a CDL, which maybe explains why they aren’t running people off the road.
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August 1st 2007 - 01:31:21 |
Wasn’t there an issue a few moths ago (maybe more) where a 18-wheeler ShopRite truck sideswiped a bunch of cars?
In any case, I agree that the REALLY big trucks usually aren’t the problem, as the drivers are generally pretty good. It’s the medium-size ones that come in below the CDL weight that really cause the issues.
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August 1st 2007 - 06:48:28 |
I am on 9th street, a one way street where not only the fire trucks come straight up to Washington, but every other big truck. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen cars get their mirrors knocked off. One time, I kid you not, a big tractor trailer with a flat bed on the back pulled one car into, like, three other cars, including the Anthony David’s Restaurant van, before he even knew he was dragging cars behind him. A couple of people saw it and were yelling and he just didn’t even know what we were yelling about until he stopped.
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August 1st 2007 - 08:23:00 |
Hoboken411 Great site, but posting a picture of a flipped car then describing a fender bender is cheesy. Are you trying to get a job at one of Murdoch’s publications or something?
“Dramatization…may not have really happened…”
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August 1st 2007 - 11:17:14 |
I’ve seen many parked cars get side-swiped by the ShopRite trucks when they make the left onto 9th from Monroe. Even if the cars are far clear of the corner or yellow line the 18 wheelers just can’t make that kind of a turn with any cars parked even halfway down the block. The truck drivers get themselves wedged between the cars and the curb and then the only way out is to wreck the parked car. Unfortunately it’s a situation that will continue to happen as there is no forseeable alternative.
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August 2nd 2007 - 15:26:43 |
Yup, just saw what otherwise looked like a brand new Jetta parked on 9th at the corner of Madison, with its driver’s side door torn back like a sardine can and the sideview mirror just dangling there like a loose tooth.
I presume this damage was done by one of the aforementioned Shop Rite delivery trucks.
The town has got to start banning parking on either side of 9th to avoid this!
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August 2nd 2007 - 15:40:53 |
rag246 wrote:
what’s that saying about a rag, and being on one?
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August 2nd 2007 - 16:20:04 |
zxcv wrote:
The Shoprite 19 wheelers turn left onto 9th street and sideswipe cars ALL THE TIME. I recomment NEVER parking on 9th accross from Shoprite liquors/Talk of the Town video.
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August 2nd 2007 - 16:21:42 |
ladydaisy wrote:
There is an alternative, no more parking on the right hand side of the 9th street on that one block which is desolate mostly anyway. Unless we can expell those massive trucks, which would be better, but harder to do legally.
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