There's a long discussion elsewhere on parking tickets given to truckers waiting to dispose of salt water. I have to agree with the individual who said it that giving out tickets is not exactly helpful.
I side with the truckers on this issue. They need to be helped, not made to feel like second-class citizens.
With regard to "safety," the oil companies could hire someone to wear a reflective vest, and hold a sign with "slow" on one side and "stop" on the other side. In Boston, they use off-duty policemen for these pop-up problems until the situation is resolved. These policemen make a lot of money and generally retire at 45 years of age, and spend their retirement years reading nasty letters to the editor about how big their pensions are.
Every truck driver has a cell phone. This is not rocket science. Airports in San Antonio, Boston, and I assume elsewhere, have solved the "waiting problem."
Sounds like a 16-year-old looking for a summer job could work out a business plan in 10 minutes, propose it to the city and/or county, manage the waiting problem, and make enough money to hire a 14-year-old to manage it. He/she could contract out a lemonade stand to his/her 8-year-old sibling at the same site.
Having said all this, I see all of this as growing pains and these things will be worked out over time. But it will certainly help if folks work together on this rather than fighting it out with $20 traffic tickets.
