Tag: parking: Page 22

Channel 19

Reader: Parking enforcement in La Porte, Texas, gets tough

Clark Freight Lines Safety Director (and La Porte police officer) Jeffrey Tippit on city’s move to get tough enforcing a no-parking ordinance extending to retail parking lots.

January 28, 2014

Parking

Circle, circle, dot dot dot….

In which Wendy proposes a research project, and “someone’s sister-in-law needed a job, so they created the ‘Fund for Dumb Stuff’… Progress, people, progress.”

January 8, 2014

Parking

Added bonus at the W.Va. Tamarack

In 1996, Tamarack was opened by the West Virginia Parkways Authority at the Beckley Service Plaza on I-64 as an economic development project.

December 27, 2013

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

Parking

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

Parking

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

Parking

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

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

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

Parking

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

Parking

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

Parking

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