Originally Posted by Mos6502

What exactly is unreasonable about that? New York banned streetcars using overhead wires (oh the horror!) so they found an alternative (underground conduits). If they could do that for the safety of the city, what's so outrageous that they require trucking companies comply with common sense and existing laws?

There is absolutely nothing unreasonable about it at all, in fact it is considerably more reasonable than letting drivers cut corners by taking routes that cannot accommodate them, and using trucks that are too big for the job. Convenience and penny pinching does not trump every other issue in the universe.