Residents of a neighborhood in Queens, New York, are urging city officials to take action against the tractor trailers that they say have been using their neighborhood streets as a makeshift truck stop.

The locals living in the New York City neighborhood say that, in the last year, semi trucks have begun parking along the Grand Central Parkway Service Road near 64th Road, taking up all the parking spots and generally disrupting the flow of the neighborhood.

“A parking lot — like a truck parking lot,” said Raj Patel of Forest Hills to New York CBS Local.

“At night after 9 o’clock, it’s very hard parking. You can’t find the parking. You’ve got too many trucks here parking on the service road,” he said.

The NYC Department of Transportation says that truck parking along the Grand Central Parkway Service Road is illegal, but that officers issuing tickets don’t faze the truckers, who seem to have nowhere else to go.

“The trucks do get tickets. However, it’s the cost of doing business, so it doesn’t scare them away,” said City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, who also said that, although the NYPD has six vehicles capable of towing away the illegally parked semi trucks, they don’t do it, because the city has nowhere to store the large big rigs.

“I call three times to 311… They take care of that first time, and after that again, they’re [semi trucks] parking— no problem…Because of this car [big rig], there’s lots of traffic over here, OK? They have to put sign, OK? ‘No parking,’” said resident Rafik Yusopov.

“I know they need to park somewhere, but it is not convenient to the neighborhood,” added Marella Vankat of Forest Hills, one of several residents who say they’d rather have the truckers rested than driving fatigued, but that the city needs to work with the drivers to figure out a better place for them to rest.

The New York Police Department said that they would again begin towing illegally parked semi trucks in the area beginning Tuesday night, February 13th, but it is not clear where the towed trucks, if any, were stored.