Summertime is made for ice cream (truck tickets)

Ice cream trucks are driven up and down many New York roads, but drivers of those trucks have a lot of extra rules they need to follow. Any activity that mixes motor vehicles and children is like that. It’s not illegal to drive by an ice cream truck the way it it’s illegal to pass a school bus, but the drivers of both kinds of vehicles have to be extra-cautious because of the work they do.

The main traffic law covering these sales is 1225(c) of the Vehicle and Traffic Law. This lays out that trucks need to be parked during sales, and that the customers aren’t standing in the roadway and especially not on the traffic side of the truck.

Other rules might have been written only because someone crossed a line and it was decided that a law was needed to keep it from happening again. For example, a driver of one of this trucks is not allowed to back up in order to make a sale, and absolutely can’t conduct business on a road with a speed limit of greater than 30 mph.

I defend clients against these as vigorously as I would for anyone whose job is on the line. Most drivers can be thankful not to have to deal with these particular laws, but as an experienced traffic attorney I am prepared to go to bat even in niche areas of law like this one.