Originally Posted by nycm'er
Are you sure? I don't know, but these trucks sit in traffic created by their size anyway, it would seem that if they were smaller and electric ( I think they get loaded just out of the city, if not in the city anyway) they would be much less a burden on themselves and city dwellers. Do you know it would be "prohibitively" expensive?
just thinking about the labor to change to smaller trucks / pay twice as many drivers, etc. was what lead me to think that.
i obviously don't have any empirical data, but i have some experience with shipping/freight charges and getting trucks to deliver equipment in the city.
9 times out of 10 the trucking companies are doing their best just to get the stuff there in the first place. I can't even imagine how big a wrench size requirements/having to change trucks would throw into the equation.
bk