These trucks were more trouble than they were worth. Good riddance.

Sobel's snail was happy to announce it had landed a prize permit for NYC and was leaving Hoboken anyway. On his way out he took a number of shots at Hoboken and demanded it be made easier for him to come him and rack in four figures a day.

He can take his snail and vegan army with him to Brooklyn. They weren't contributing anything to Hoboken anyway.

It was overdue to find a balance on these food trucks that frankly ran amok.

"The laws are problematic, and the enforcement of them is strange and selective."
Isn't that the point of the proposed changes, so enforcement is no longer selective!

Hoboken shouldn't be making the trucks get the GPS as anyone who follows The HOP knows that the technology is still a work in progress.....

proposed new rule sound more than fair. trunks can come here 200/250/300 days a year, they should easily be able to make back the cost of a permit/GPS in less than one week, maybe even just a couple of days. there'll always be someone who complains no matter what the arrangement, can't please everyone.

This town is going to regulate itself into bankruptcy. Businesses are complaining about the parking rules, residents can't have guests for longer than 4 hours, people in here seem to know the business plans of everyone doing business here better than the owners do and now we're being told where we can and can't eat.
When people find it difficult to visit or live here they are going to move on. That's the way the market works. When it is no longer convenient to be here, this town will start feeling the pinch. What's next? GPS on baby strollers?

at this late date, amidst strong competition, outofcontrol comes through in the final weeks of the year to deliver 2011's "stupidest post on patch"! with all the hacks and blowhards on these blogs, that's not an easy accomplishment but OOC beats the buzzer with a whopper. i tip my hat to the lucky lady.

out of control, i have no idea who you are but i'll stand up for you. a very smart post. exactly spot on. your point is one that no one in city hall sees as they regulate and tax this city to death, at the same time making it harder for new rateables to come to town. a couple of lost food trucks is not going to kill us, but it's the cumulative effect of all these regs and taxes and suddenly we're a fading city people are leaving rather than the exciting, booming city we can still be. cities on the upswing always overreach--they think the people and the tax receipts will keep coming forever, but they always push things too far. Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, or closer to home, Newark, Paterson, Camden. they all used to be booming cities where no one thought things would turn bad. They all taxed and regulated their people into oblivion--building governments that were far too big to sustain -- and now they're wards of the state. Hoboken was like that, too, in the 60s. Let's not return to those days. Somehow this message has to get through to Dawn and her people. They really need to brush up on their history of American cities.

The constant fees these cities are charging is bogus and unfortunate. Shame on the people who have nothing good to say about food trucks. Remember it is a business!!! Do you have one? These trucks stimulate the economy in addition to providing fun and exciting meals quickly, efficiently, and at price people can afford.

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