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Trucker Path crowd-sourcing parking info
The Trucker Path multifunction smartphone app introduced a new feature for the app, which enables truckers to provide and access parking availability information for locations across the country.
April 30, 2015
Parking
Notes on Miami
“Last week I learned that I don’t care much for Miami.” Diamond in the rough: the Mobil station on state road 997 in Krome has one of the best cheese-steaks around. …
April 17, 2015
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Parking
Hope Rivenburg: General public ‘naive’ on truck parking
Rivenburg is a parking advocate and widow of slain trucker and Jason’s Law namesake Jason Rivenburg. Overdrive interviewed her in 2015.
April 6, 2015
Parking
Truckers’ parking perspectives: ATRI seeks driver input on parking, reservation systems
The American Transportation Research Institute is seeking input from truck operators on their perceptions of trucking parking availability and the viability of truck parking reservation systems.
April 1, 2015
Channel 19
Florida bike week, anyone?
Headed past Daytona through the 15th? Brief word to the wise: As thousands of motorcyclsts converge on the aarea March 6-15, Love’s in Ormond Beach off I-95 at exit 273 will be fuel-and-go-only.
March 5, 2015
Parking
Actual news? Or a desperate grab for attention …
“I used to get mad and fire back, but there’s not enough time in the day anymore. We will always have to deal with haters — it’s best to just pat them on the head, maybe throw them a little attention bone,” and get on with it.
February 22, 2015
Parking
The big-truck ballet
Wendy watching the world go by: “When you sit back, turn the CB off, and just watch the trucks rolling in and out, it’s a lot like a big-truck ballet. You can pick the Prima Ballerinas out immediately….”
February 20, 2015
Parking
Arkansas matters, and so do the truckers
Latest media foul well apparent from this headline: “Truckers Use Walmart Parking Lot as a Truck Stop; Customers Feel Unsafe” — actually, just one customer. . .
February 18, 2015
Parking
Barriers to the next generation of drivers detailed in ATRI’s demographics study
It will be difficult, noted ATRI President Rebecca Brewster, to keep drivers in trucking if “the drivers are forced … to drive during periods of increased risk” due to the nature of the hours of service regulations.
February 14, 2015
Parking
When real life and fiction meet
In which George and Wendy get a new hometown parking spot — maybe.
February 9, 2015
Parking
‘Smart’ truck parking ahead? Feds test tech offering live info, reservations
U.S. officials are testing SmartPark in Tennessee in hopes of expanding the real-time parking data and reservation system to other freight corridors.
February 9, 2015
Channel 19
Strong voices on parking
Conversations on the situation continue in the wake of mainstream media attention to truckers’ parking needs.
February 3, 2015
Parking
Gearing up for MATS
[youtube qY1LlwJxiFU nolink] Truck show season kicks off in March, and it’s all I’m hearing about these days. Apparently, MATS is going to be one heck of a show – we’ve heard from all kinds of people about all kinds of neat stuff that’s going to happen there. I’m going to be brutally honest and […]
February 1, 2015
Parking
Be part of the problem, or part of the solution – your choice
There’s another video going around – this time of a guy peeing in the parking lot, in broad daylight, at a facility that clearly has public restrooms close. I’m sent at least one of these videos a week, or see them on other trucking pages. I don’t repost them, I don’t share them. I don’t […]
January 28, 2015
Parking
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
Channel 19
The rest: Tying the knot on 2014
The third and final part of the Channel 19 2014 year in review, threading the needle through the most-read posts to the blog, here with an emphasis on rates and pay, parking and more.
December 30, 2014
Parking
TA to close on VA I-81, cutting 129 parking spaces
TravelCenters of America at Virginia’s I-81 Exit 150 will permanently close at 4 p.m. Nov. 15. The stop has 129 parking spaces that will be lost, which likely will add to the already exiting parking problems on I-81.
November 3, 2014
Parking
Far from just a ‘driver gripe’: Parking a growing concern for fleets, too
A perennial concern of drivers and owner-operators stands firm in the ranks at the No. 6 position in a prominent fleet survey: Truck parking,
October 14, 2014
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