There were 76 big delivery trucks ticketed yesterday in Mayor Tory’s zero-tolerance traffic improvement campaign One of them was a FedEx truck, according to PC Clint Stibbe, Toronto’s media-friendly traffic guy. Stibbe is doing his job in exhorting delivery men to find other places to drop their cargo and many people will applaud tickets, fines and tow aways for illegal parkers. Stibbe says delivery trucks will have to find alternatives rather than park on the street. Use the parking dock or deliver at night, are some suggestions. But the unknowns are staggering. There may not be a loading dock, businesses are not open at night and indeed, given the number of deliveries, there may not be enough hours in the day. Is it possible businesses will have to start scheduling for deliveries when they are normally closed? Will they be required to take shipments a day or two later than they want? Will Logistics become a forgotten concept? The vaunted goal of those UPS ads to deliver goods just in time seems set for a real test. An association representing Ontario truck drivers had asked the mayor to “revisit” his zero-tolerance policy on illegally parked delivery trucks. That appeal seems to have fallen on deaf ears. In response, the mayor is said to have remarked: “Look it is a big city. There is going to be traffic. We just can’t have people on their own deciding that they are going to make matters worse, though, by pulling over to deliver an envelope or get a coffee,” he said.Logistics: Will there be enough hours in the day?
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There were 76 big delivery trucks ticketed yesterday in Mayor Tory’s zero-tolerance traffic improvement campaign One of them was a FedEx truck, according to PC Clint Stibbe, Toronto’s media-friendly traffic guy. Stibbe is doing his job in exhorting delivery men to find other places to drop their cargo and many people will applaud tickets, fines and tow aways for illegal parkers. Stibbe says delivery trucks will have to find alternatives rather than park on the street. Use the parking dock or deliver at night, are some suggestions. But the unknowns are staggering. There may not be a loading dock, businesses are not open at night and indeed, given the number of deliveries, there may not be enough hours in the day. Is it possible businesses will have to start scheduling for deliveries when they are normally closed? Will they be required to take shipments a day or two later than they want? Will Logistics become a forgotten concept? The vaunted goal of those UPS ads to deliver goods just in time seems set for a real test. An association representing Ontario truck drivers had asked the mayor to “revisit” his zero-tolerance policy on illegally parked delivery trucks. That appeal seems to have fallen on deaf ears. In response, the mayor is said to have remarked: “Look it is a big city. There is going to be traffic. We just can’t have people on their own deciding that they are going to make matters worse, though, by pulling over to deliver an envelope or get a coffee,” he said.