SYRACUSE, NY – And then there was one: Lady Bug Lunch Box will be the only food truck with a city license to park regularly on a downtown street this season, according to local vendors.

Pam Dwyer, the woman inside the cheery red-and-yellow truck, already has started her 14^th season in front of Firefighter’s Park on East Fayette and South State Street. She’s there every weekday. And she says she’s the sole truck operator who applied for a license last winter.

“Technically, as a food truck, I’m the only one,” she said Tuesday.

Other area food truck vendors say they aren’t going to park-and-cook on city streets this year.

Instead, they are headed to private lots in Syracuse, to the towns of Salina and Cicero, and even to Madison County, to sell wood-fired pizzas and hot sandwiches and chicken tacos out of their mobile kitchens.

The reason? Money and location, they say. The city’s licences to allow food trucks to park-and-sell on streets cost $1,500. That license ties a truck to one single spot, a tether that’s hard to stomach for a chef whose kitchen runs on wheels, vendors say. Worse yet, other motorists sometime nab the designated spaces.

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