N.Y. City Not Ticketing Trucks, Pending Appeal on Decals

New York City recently announced that it is not enforcing its truck decal requirement and has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to reconsider a ruling that the city cannot require truckers to have such identification.

The FMCSA made the ruling in October after American Trucking Associations filed a complaint in 2008 against the city, the State of New Jersey and Cook County, Ill.

All three jurisdictions required truckers to carry or display proof that they had paid local truck levies.

FMCSA agreed with ATA that the 2005 federal highway reauthorization act, known as SAFETEA-LU, prohibits such local identification requirements

The city’s letter of appeal, obtained from FMCSA by Transport Topics, is dated January 3.

However, the city only recently posted on its finance department’s website that it is not enforcing the decal requirement, pending FMCSA’s response, said Kendra Adams, executive director of the New York State Motor Truck Association.