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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Limit deliveries from 4am to 7am

Oh boy I sure do love being woken up at 5am because the loud-ass delivery truck is restocking the grocery store.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what it's like where you live, but I do sometimes get woken up by the garbage truck. Not often, but it's loud as shit and comes just before 5am... IDK if it's bad luck, but everywhere I've ever lived seems to have garbage trucks that came well before sunrise, and they're about the loudest trucks before you get up to construction vehicles

Unloading a truck isn't even on the same volume scale. Especially if we used small trucks from a distribution center outside the city. Other countries do it, and we do it already, just not in the same numbers I'm proposing

This doesn't sound like an actual issue to me

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Adding more noise early in the morning doesn't feel like a good idea to me