Hidden Cost of Convenience: an Amazon delivery truck passes homes every 11 seconds
watch the video to see just how close the trucks come to homes near the warehouses
Hidden Cost of Convenience: How Online Purchases Are Costing SoCal Communities
To make same-day or next-day delivery possible, developers are building more and more massive warehouses for major retailers — mainly in the Inland Empire — often right next to neighborhoods.
From the warehouses, an endless parade of diesel-belching semi trucks deliver online orders that end up at homes across Southern California and points beyond.
And that’s a big problem for residents.
"You’re scared to even take a deep breath in," mother Ashley Saragosa told the NBC4 I-Team.
Saragosa lives down the street from a huge Amazon Fulfillment Center in San Bernardino and says her 2-year-old son often needs an inhaler to breathe because of the toxic exhaust from trucks that pass her house every few seconds.
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