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Parking

POLL: How often, if at all, do you pay for the ability to reserve a parking space?

Is paying for a parking-space reservation a normal part of your routine trucking business or more of a last resort? You can weigh in via this poll or via our podcast voicemail message line at 530-408-6423. Be sure to state your name and home location with any message.

August 6, 2019

Parking

TruckPark info service added to ELD

The TruckPark app’s service, which launched as a search-and-reserve system for parking spots at 13 truck stops earlier this year, announced a partnership with software developer UTech to make its system available via UTech’s GPStab electronic logging device system.

August 2, 2019

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

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

Channel 19

Market-making: ‘Mustang’ Mike Crawford creates his own for parking

Crawford carried a joke into reality recently at an Illinois truck stop mid-afternoon that was filling up fast: “For this nice, easy parking space, give me $5 and I’ll leave right now for you.”

May 29, 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

Channel 19

Round-up: Jerry Ward’s final ride, trooper-to-trucker credit where it’s due, don’t be ‘that guy’…

Jerry Ward (1936-2019, rest in peace) is laid to rest in Colorado after a funeral procession fronted by a Nestor Trucking Pete, one “Mama Bear” from the Illinois State Police salutes a grain hauler, and advocacy on the other side of the parking issue activates in great Des Moines, Iowa….

April 30, 2019