SAUGUS – Selectman Stephen Horlick doesn’t want to see truck traffic on the side streets during the five months that Route 107 is scheduled to be closed for the Belden Bly Bridge repairs.Selectman Michael Kelleher doesn’t believe RESCO trucks have the right to drive on Ballard Street due to a long ago agreement signed with the town.Both selectmen are likely fighting losing battles and the reason, according to Traffic Safety Officer Lt. Stephen Sweezey, is because roadways are public and essentially open to everyone. While town officials debate banning or limiting truck traffic on certain roads, Sweezey said it’s not that simple.There is a state law that says a community cannot ban services from local streets. Sweezey said that means UPS, FedEx or any local deliveries including oil and trash trucks. He said if the town posts a sign banning truck traffic it bans all traffic, not simply RESCO or Aggregate Industry trucks.”Local government can’t say no,” Sweezey said.He said the only possible way the town could limit traffic and not prevent services is to position an officer on the corner of every street banning trucks. That officer would have to stop every truck and ask for the address it was delivering too.Sweezey also said if the town was to post truck bans, it would be required to provide alternative routes for the trucks as well.Kelleher has been strong in his opposition to allowing RESCO to use any of the town’s roadways. Horlick has been vocal in his concern that Ballard Street will take a beating due to excessive traffic including additional trucks.Again, Sweezey said it’s essentially too bad.”Everyone who pays for gas pays a tax that allows anyone to use the roads,” he said. “To post ‘no trucks’ is a no-win situation.”Sweezey also believes that “like a flood, water seeks it’s own level.”He said he thought once the commuters got used to the detour some of the kinks would work themselves out.”People will seek out quicker routes,” he said. “And if they find more advantageous ways to go, the traffic problem will lessen.”