NEW YORK -- New York City is launching a program to try to get big, noisy trucks from straying onto quiet side streets.

For three months in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, the city's Department of Transportation will set up a sensor under one intersection to pick up the weight and motion of vehicles illegally driving on the side streets.

Two other intersections will have cameras.

Big trucks are supposed to stay on designated routes, but drivers sometimes use side-road shortcuts.

Assemblyman Joseph Lentol says people's homes literally rattle when the trucks pass through.

If the test program works well, he says he'll introduce legislation to slap drivers with fines.


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