Tag: truck parking

Business

News roundup, Nov. 14: 200 parking spaces between two new Love’s, digital broker lands $400M funding, new Wis. KW dealer location

Love’s opened two new stores with a combined 196 truck parking spaces in Calhoun, Georgia, and Elgin, South Carolina. Wisconsin Kenworth expands operations with new sales and service facility in La Crosse. App-based broker Convoy announced a $400 million Series D round of funding.

November 14, 2019

Business

News roundup, Oct. 11: Florida seeking feedback on truck parking, Love’s opens two new locations

Florida DOT is asking truck drivers to complete a survey about truck parking in the state to help develop solutions to fix parking issues. Love’s opened new travel stops in Edon, Ohio, and St. Clair, Michigan, adding 215 parking spaces to its nationwide network.

October 11, 2019

Overdrive Radio

‘Truck parking only’: Working together toward a new get-in reality

The need for greater parking capacity, well-positioned, throughout the nation is no secret. The need along Texas lanes was the subject of the lively discussion devoted to parking at GATS. In today’s edition of Overdrive Radio, hear just what could well provide a model toward engaging with other states, too.

September 20, 2019

Channel 19

Approaches to pay-to-reserve parking: Readers diverge on ‘last resort’ and ‘operational benefit’ upshot

While the largest share of respondents to our recent polling on pay-to-reserve parking reported never using such systems, the remainder showed a split on the operational benefits of such systems, with a third of those who use them doing so only as a last resort upon arrival at a stop.

September 17, 2019

Business

News roundup, Sept. 13: Two new Love’s add 180 parking spaces, GPS dashcam released

Love’s has opened new travel stops in Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Rovi released a new dashcam with GPS tracking to record vehicle speed and location while recording.

September 13, 2019

Parking

‘People don’t understand — we have nowhere to go’: GATS panel presses for parking solutions

With a focus on Texas, a panel made up of truckers, parking advocates and a TxDOT official explored ways the state can expand parking options — especially in major cities and near freight hubs.

September 9, 2019

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new location off I-80 in Illinois

The new Love’s offers drivers 137 truck parking spaces; Chester’s Chicken, Godfather’s Pizza and Subway restaurants; eight diesel lanes; seven showers; laundry facilities and more. There is also an on-site Speedco for truck maintenance.

August 27, 2019

Business

Two new parking options around Chicago

The Truck Parking Near Me company has opened two parking facilities for commercial trucks in Gary, Indiana, and Bellwood, Illinois, both in the area around the major Chicago freight hub.

August 21, 2019

Channel 19

Parking roundtable with focus on Texas lanes set for GATS

On Saturday, Aug. 24, at noon at GATS, join us to give your input directly to TxDOT on parking needs and new capacity ideas. Former owner-op Scott Grenerth will host a discussion intended to bring in the audience for input with a TxDOT rep, Clark Freight Lines company driver Jack Smith and North Carolina independent owner-op Ingrid Brown.

August 14, 2019

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new truck stop in Texas

Love’s Travel Stops has opened a new location in Brownsville, Texas, offering truck drivers 39 new parking spaces in the South Texas region.

August 12, 2019

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

Oregon’s Jubitz Travel Center adds reserved parking spots

Jubitz Travel Center, which is located on Vancouver Way just off Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, now has 18 truck parking spots in its main lot that can be reserved for $15 each.

August 5, 2019