CUT THE ENGINE OR PAY, COUNCIL SAYS
The Red Bank council will direct police to crack down on delivery trucks idling in town. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
At four bucks a gallon and more for diesel the economics of leaving the engine running on a delivery makes little sense. There’s the environmental-damage factor, too.
But members of the Red Bank council, after receiving complaints from tenants downtown, say the fumes from idling delivery trucks are wafting into the above-business dwellings and spoiling sweet spring breezes.
So the governing body, in hope of clearing the air, is directing police to enforce a state law against idling in town, specifically targeting delivery trucks, which Mayor Pasquale Menna said are the main offenders.