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Channel 19
Last haul from the Texas pea harvest: Unloading with Cody Blankenship
Photos and reporting from a Bells, Tenn., unload with Cody Blankenship, who sees parking availability as the biggest issue going, despite Jason’s Law. Hours, e-logs compound the problem…
December 17, 2013
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West Virginia to get truck parking alert system
The West Virginia Division of Highways will offer a guidance system to alert truckers to available parking via roadway signs and the 511 Traveler Information platform.
December 10, 2013
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Report: Open road is gone as modern trucker grapples with hours rules, e-logs and parking shortages
A Wall Street Journal report says a “confusing tangle of rules” and a myriad of devices like electronic logs and speed limiters are dampening not only the industry’s efficiency but the will of those who are and want to be truck drivers.
November 14, 2013
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The real effect of the new hours rules
The people who make the rules of the road should have to see a grown man running around in his underwear in the middle of the night before they make everyone park at the same time.
August 4, 2013
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Channel 19
‘Parking firestorm’ cools into substantive, driver-led effort
Independent owner-operator Jason Haggard is urging able drivers to join him at a June 18 council meeting in Coon Rapids, Minn., to begin the process of meeting with the city to address the parking fiasco there.
June 15, 2013
Click through this image for a larger version of the actual warning issued to violators of Coon Rapids’ parking ordinance, posted on owner-operator Jason Haggard’s website and including the ordinance’s language.
Channel 19
Local kudos: Campo, Colo.
When a tornado warning was issued May 22 in Campo, Colo., this year, Karen and Tom Moore saw firsthand the hospitality of the town’s local law enforcement officials.
June 11, 2013
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Catching flies with honey: A parking firestorm in Minnesota
Following a widely circulated picture posted about the truck-parking ordinance banning trucking parking and passed by Coon Rapids, Minn., last year, Wendy reaches out to the city council.
June 10, 2013
This photo was posted by driver Steven Weber to Facebook after he saw it on the window of a truck parked next to him in Coon Rapids, Minn. Click through it for a larger version on Facebook to read it.
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LETTER: Earn your ‘professional’ title
Reader Earnest J. Williams on the furor over a Walmart that recently banned truck parking: “I have noticed that when we are wrong about something, we really don’t want to have our errs pointed out to us, especially publicly.”
June 2, 2013
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Unwanted visitors at a Texas Walmart
Seen at the Walmart in Lancaster, Texas: NO TRUCK PARKING — VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE. And it gets hairier…
May 29, 2013
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Channel 19
Hours recap: New regs bringing old practice to the fore?; OK tornado intel
More and more under new hours rules, drivers and owner-operators are expecting a turn away from the restart and back to the recap. You? Also: A brief update on OK tornado relief expectations.
May 21, 2013
Company driver Todd McCann blogs about various trucking topics via his AboutTruckingDriving.com site, home to his blog and podcast. His piece on the 34-hour restart you can find here.
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National truck-parking driver survey launched
Here find out how to take the survey, created by Hope Rivenburg in part in concert with driver advocates Allen and Donna Smith of Truth About Trucking and aimed at educating the DOT on parking needs.
May 15, 2013
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States eye ways to keep rest stops open
Louisiana and New Hampshire recently advanced legislation that would permit private sponsorship to help fund rest areas, while New Jersey has slowed down on the idea.
April 19, 2013
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Warner Robins ordinance repealed!
Last night Wendy’s home town council voted down the restrictive two-hour truck parking ordinance they’d approved just two weeks prior. Here’s why.
March 5, 2013
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Georgia city mayor requesting driver aid
Warner Robins, Ga., mayor Chuck Shaheen is hoping truck drivers will attend a city council meeting March 4 at 4 p.m. to voice their concerns over the city’s two-hour parking limitation.
March 3, 2013
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Mayor: Warner Robins parking ban needs compromise
City mayor Chuck Shaheen calls for town council to compromise on the new two-hour time limit.
February 25, 2013
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C’mon, Warner Robins — show us some love
Wendy Parker on her hometown’s ban of truck parking: “Set a precedent for the rest of the country. Find a way to not only make it work, find a way to make it work for both the trucker and the city.”
February 23, 2013
Wendy Parker grew up under the menacing gaze of the Warner Robins’ high school mascot, the Demons
Channel 19
When trucks are ‘an eyesore and a nuisance’
It’s happened again: A city councilman’s idea to ban truck parking within town borders shows evidence of what drivers and other advocates are up against in the battle to improve parking availability in less-served areas.
February 19, 2013
Lack of a local parking ban on trucks in Erin, Tenn., means owner-operator Dan Heister is able with the property owner’s permission to utilize this gravel lot in his area at the intersection two state routes occasionally for overnight parking.
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Eating in the dark
Be careful what you put in your mouth on a night haul on a strange route.
February 17, 2013
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