Originally Posted by
dynodonn
This is how it is with our more established inner city trucking firms, with larger semis dropping off their cargo at a main depot, and having smaller single axle tractor/trailers haul the cargo to it's final destination. There still is the case of larger chain stores trying to maximize their loads, and sending their full size tractor/trailers down our city streets.
Ironically a fair amount of the freight shipped to those chain retailer regional distribution centers is by LTL carriers like I drive for, using small 28' trailers pulled by day cabs. The thing is, one of those full size retailer fleet trucks loaded to the gills represents the consolidated shipments of maybe a dozen or more LTL truck deliveries.
Limiting the size of trucks for the downtown core makes sense, but extending that to entire metropolitan areas would be an unsustainable increase in the number of trucks on the road.