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Tag: Hope Rivenburg

Turning the worm on parking

Advocates stress the need for greater driver communication with state/local Metropolitan Planning Organizations on the need for better truck parking — and AsktheTrucker.com offers an MPO directory online to help facilitate communication.

December 20, 2016

The map tool at AsktheTrucker.com’s MPO directory allows drivers to quickly navigate to particular state and more local MPOs.

Parking: ‘It’s bad all over’

With a major study out and a new national coalition beginning regional meetings, the heat’s up on the increasing need for safe parking.

December 1, 2015

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Parking: Creative approach meets small-minded resistance in Hutchins, Texas

Where parking needs may increasingly be met: Efforts by fleets, shippers and receivers, even your preferred service location, to accommodate overnight truck parking needs.

November 27, 2015

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Overdrive Radio

Hope Rivenburg: General public ‘naive’ on truck-parking needs

Our podcast interview with truck-parking advocate Hope Rivenburg, widow of Jason’s Law’s namesake. Also: Hutchins, Texas, zoning hearing upcoming on new parking facility there after roadblocks hit by diesel shop.

October 1, 2015

Rivenburg is pictured above during her part of the event announcing the establishment of the National Coalition on Truck Parking, attendant to release of the Jason’s Law Truck Parking Survey report and study. Read more about the study, which marks a good “starting point” in identifying areas where the need for more spaces is most critical, Rivenburg says, at this link.

National Coalition on Truck Parking formed, results of Jason’s Law parking study released

DOT reps and stakeholder groups have signed a pledge of commitment to a newly created National Coalition on Truck Parking.

August 21, 2015

Survey results noted that 37 U.S. states confirmed a shortage of available parking within their borders. Problems are widespread, “observed in regions with high populations and population densities, along major freight corridors carrying inter-regional commerce, and in locations associated with ports and manufacturing centers,” the Jason’s Law Truck Parking Survey’s results note. Find a link to it below.

Parking shortage hits the mainstream

A Wall Street Journal story last week took on the issue of the difficulties faced by truckers finding a safe parking spot in widespread congested areas around the nation.

January 27, 2015

Engagement on parking safety, availability in the wake of driver’s murder

Catch a replay of a discussion spearheaded by Allen and Donna Smith Wed., July 16, with Hope Rivenburg and owner-operator Michael Boeglin’s widow, Ashley Boeglin, and father-in-law, former driver David Clark.

July 17, 2014

Overdrive Radio

Jason’s Law: Five years after the passing of its namesake

In conversation with Overdrive’s Wendy Parker, Hope Rivenburg, marking the fifth anniversary of the death of her husband, for whom the Jason’s Law truck parking legislation is named, stresses the need for drivers to continue to press their legislators on areas where truck parking is sorely lacking and/or unsafe.

March 18, 2014

Jason Rivenburg, for whom the Jason’s Law truck-parking legislation, included in the MAP-21 highway bill, is named.

‘Killer Truckers’ TV special on re-air

On bright spot in the special about the FBI’s Highway Serial Killings Initiative is that it delved farther into on-highway crime — that against truckers, and trucking advocates’ efforts to tamp down human trafficking.

August 17, 2013

This FBI map of murders plotted in the “Highway Serial Killings Initiative” database was shared on Investigation Discovery’s Facebook page concurrent with the premiere of “Killer Truckers” last weekend — as of Friday morning, it had garnered 999 likes, 400-some-odd shares and more than 200 comments, many from truckers objecting to the wholesale tarring and feathering of the industry in the series’ title. Follow this link to weigh in yourself.

Truck parking push not over with Jason’s Law

Following the cheers that went up around the trucking community for the “Jason’s Law” truck parking legislation’s inclusion in the MAP-21 highway bill in June, owner-operators like Overdrive reader William McKelvie put a quick lid on the possibility of any resulting driver complacency relative to the parking problem. “While everyone has jumped on the proverbial […]

July 17, 2012

Some good news: Jason’s Law in the highway bill

In all the hubbub over the mandate for electronic onboard recorders included in the highway-bill language, it’s perhaps been easy to overlook some of better results for truckers and advocates, chief among them other language in the bill that, if it ultimately passes (as expected), brings to fruition nearly four years’ worth of advocacy that […]

June 29, 2012

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Jason’s Law: Time for action is now

Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works unanimously approved a two-year transportation authorization bill (S. 1813, or MAP-21) extending current funding levels and making other enhancements that could lead, said Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, to new jobs. Of chief interest for trucking advocates is the inclusion in this bill of Jason’s Law, intended […]

November 10, 2011

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