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Channel 19

Appreciation of a truck-parking joke — what’s it worth?

$5 — and a whole lot of wonder at the state of camaraderie among the nation’s truckers on the road today. A follow-up on the time Mike “Mustang” Crawford got $5 for a parking spot he was about to leave.

July 29, 2019

Parking

Oregon DOT seeks driver feedback on truck parking

The survey is part of the department’s ongoing Oregon Commercial Truck Parking Study, which intends to explore truck parking issue within several freight corridors in the state – while considering capacity, safety and convenience to truckers – to determine where additional truck parking is needed.

July 22, 2019

Business

Sessions on business best practices, ELDs, more set for GATS

A number of educational sessions will be held during the Great American Trucking Show, including Overdrive’s Partners in Business sessions, FMCSA Hot Topics sessions and more.

July 9, 2019

Business

Sessions on ELDs, regulations, truck parking, more set for GATS

Truck drivers attending GATS later this summer in Dallas will have the opportunity to sit in on presentations on topics including electronic logs, truck parking and more.

June 25, 2019

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new locations in New Mexico, Illinois

Love’s Travel Stops this week opened new locations in Eunice, New Mexico, and Rochelle, Illinois, adding nearly 200 truck parking spaces to its nationwide network.

June 14, 2019

Parking

Five parking workshops in N.C. this week

A series of little-publicized truck-parking-focused workshops are kicking off beginning tomorrow, June 4, in North Carolina, to “discuss and get your input on truck parking challenges, issues and solutions in the state,” says workshops leader NCDOT.

June 3, 2019

Parking

Penn., Colorado truck parking workshops with FHWA

A series of parking-focused workshops hosted by the Federal Highway Administration in collaboration with local/regional metropolitan planning organizations and state DOTs around the country continues tomorrow, May 30, in Colorado, then in Pennsylvania next month.

May 29, 2019

Channel 19

Report your boot: Mich. small fleet owner crowd-sourcing booting incidents

Leander Richmond launched ReportaBoot.com, intended to collect booting incident reports directly from drivers/carriers from the last few years, and in ongoing fashion — with a mind toward spurring action to tamp down particular practices of the “parking lot pirates,” as he calls a new breed of ‘parking enforcement’ providers.

May 21, 2019

Parking

New TruckPark app allows drivers to reserve parking spaces

The TruckPark app currently allows drivers to reserve parking at 13 truck stops in and around Chicago, Cleveland, New York City, Atlanta, Dallas and Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Company COO and co-founder Joshua Walls said TruckPark will soon be expanding to additional locations.

May 8, 2019

Truck Stops

North Dakota truck stop rebranded to TA Express

The newly-rebranded truck stop in Steele, formerly the Coffee Cup Fuel Stop, offers 75 truck parking spaces, seven diesel fueling lanes, laundry facilities, three showers and more. It also offers Caribou Coffee, Pizza Hut Express and Subway restaurants.

April 24, 2019

Parking

ATRI seeking trucker input on truck parking information systems

The data collection from truckers is part of ATRI’s 2019 top priority research topic to standardize truck parking information systems based on driver preferences. The group is looking for information on drivers’ preferred data formats and delivery mechanisms for truck parking information.

April 9, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Lights-out at MATS, and: You’re the parking expert ‘where you live and where you truck to’

Former owner-op Scott Grenerth introduces parking-info/reservation site RigRest.com, talks ongoing work with National Coalition on Truck Parking, in this episode of Overdrive Radio; Also: The moment the lights went at MATS just ahead of Secretary Chao’s speech on hours reform, captured for eternity …

April 5, 2019