Broken Permitting System Forces Food Trucks Into Black Market WNYC Running a food truck may be the hippest job around. But there is a shadowy side to food trucks’ fun and quirky image. In order to get started, many of these gourmet trucks flout the law, and pay high prices to obtain black-market vendor permits. They say they have no choice.

Broken Permitting System Forces Food Trucks Into Black Market
WNYC

Running a food truck may be the hippest job around. But there is a shadowy side to food trucks’ fun and quirky image.

In order to get started, many of these gourmet trucks flout the law, and pay high prices to obtain black-market vendor permits. They say they have no choice.