The Taco Truck Wars

Jose Ochoa has parked his taco truck on the same stretch of road since 1989, and, like scores of other lunch vendors around Los Angeles, he refused to pack it up Thursday, the first day for a new law requiring food wagons to move every hour or face $1,000 fines.

Mr. Ochoa said he defied the law because he could not afford to desert his customers and because the rule gives an unfair advantage to traditional restaurants while discriminating against the lunch trucks that have served East Los Angeles for decades.

When they approved the regulation last month, Los Angeles County supervisors, who govern the county’s unincorporated areas, seemed not to realize that it would launch what has become known locally as the great Taco Truck Wars of 2008.”*

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