Tag: Warner Robins

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall…

“The more we travel, the more I get used to being a long way from home yet knowing exactly what’s around the bend” — and George gets used to repeated road sign sing-alongs…

February 19, 2014

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.

Giving back

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is and remains immortal.” –Albert Pine

March 31, 2013

Wendy Parker and family edit

Warner Robins ordinance repealed!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

At the fuel island

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

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

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

Loaded from home — to home

Wendy and George ponder home and Sunday school on a run up I-75 from near where Wendy was raised in Georgia to deliver in Ohio, their current home.

February 20, 2013

Home sweet home: over the rainbow in Ohio

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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