Port Hawkesbury council is exploring a bylaw to control delivery truck traffic in the town.
At Tuesday’s regular council meeting, councillors said they have received complaints about a surge in full sized transport trucks making deliveries in residential areas of the town.
Deputy Mayor Blaine MacQuarrie read some of the complaints to council, for the record.
“An Armour truck, tractor trailer, was delivering a parcel to my neighbor and pulled down the Eastlink wires across my truck. The driver said they never pay for damage and we would have to go to Eastlink and fight it out,” he said. “A Day and Ross tractor trailer was delivering to a neighbor and took a half dozen branches off the tree on the front lawn. The driver, from Day and Ross, told me deliveries in town are up 35 per cent since COVID.”
The rest of council agreed full sized transport trucks making deliveries in residential areas was a problem, but made it clear they didn’t have a problem with regular size delivery trucks.
Council voted to have staff research what a delivery bylaw might look like, and how it had been implemented elsewhere, and council moved the matter to committee of the whole for further discussion.
