If you live on Sunburst Drive, you don’t need a clock to tell you the time. The roar of tractor trailers barreling down the street does that for you. Sometimes it’s 5:06 in the morning, sometimes it’s just after midnight, sometimes it’s every 20 minutes through the night. For residents, it has become the soundtrack of their lives — and they’ve had enough.
For months, neighbors have been writing to the mayor, town council, and township administrator Joseph Criscuolo, pleading for help. Their emails are raw, sometimes written in the middle of the night after being jolted awake by air brakes and diesel engines.
One message sent at dawn begins simply:
“Good early morning. Please advise as to why there are tractor trailers thundering by on Sunburst Drive disturbing the peace at 5:06 AM and what the town is doing to stop this. We have really had enough of these reckless trucks now.”
Another lists times — 9:27, 9:59, 10:36, 11:44, 11:57 — each one a reminder of another truck screaming past. Residents attach photos. They name the companies: Salson Logistics, Landstar, Talay Trailer, Lazy Tigers. The pattern is the same: the trucks are heavy, they are loud, they are speeding, and they are supposed to be nowhere near this street. The posted weight limit is 4 tons.
Years of Complaints, Little Relief
The frustration has grown into anger.
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“What do taxes pay for???”
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“Years of complaints, nothing done!!!”
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“Someone is going to get killed!!!”
Some residents no longer write just about trucks — they write about leadership. Their subject lines and sign-offs now call for firing officials and even impeaching the mayor. It is the language of a community that feels ignored.
The Township’s Response
On the other side, Township Administrator Joseph Criscuolo has been clear: enforcement is up to the police.
“The Police Department is the proper authority to enforce speeding and weight limit and other violations. The mayor nor township council can write summons,” Criscuolo wrote in one reply.
He pointed to East Brunswick Police Chief Frank LoSacco, who he says has repeatedly offered to meet with residents from Sunburst, though few have taken him up on it.
A Neighborhood vs. the Noise
What these emails reveal is more than a fight about trucks. They capture the exhaustion of a neighborhood that feels forgotten. It’s not just noise and rattling windows. It’s the belief that no matter how many reports they file, how many photos they send, or how many times they say “enough is enough,” nothing changes. Some believe that the reason why they are ignored because they aren’t on the “rich” side of town.
Every night, the trucks return. Every morning, another email gets fired off.
And so the question lingers in inboxes across East Brunswick: How many more trucks have to thunder down Sunburst before something finally gives?
