Back on Aug. 8, I attended a public hearing on food trucks that featured testimony from a number of mobile vendors and brick-and-mortar business owners. Since then, the Nashville Food Truck Association made their alliance official, three Nashville trucks appeared on The Great Food Truck Race's contest ballot and Metro Public Works, as promised, posted draft guidelines (PDF) on their website.
This week, Steven Hale writes about the work in progress that is Nashville's food truck regulations for The City Paper, drawing parallels with other truckin' cities like Seattle, Portland and Austin. My inclination is that many of you out there in Bitesland just want good food, and whether it comes from through a swinging door from a restaurant kitchen or through the window of a converted delivery van doesn't make all that much difference. In any case, here's a bit from Hale's piece, quoting Public Works' Chip Knauf:
