New truck parking app looks to give drivers more options
The goal, the company says, is to build a community of truckers to rate the parking locations, add new locations if they aren't already in the app and help other drivers by adding information regarding...
View ArticleTrucker Path adds parking prediction to app
The feature compiles four years of data collected in the app and gives a percentage of parking spots available at a location during a given period of time.
View ArticleIowa DOT implementing truck parking information system along I-80
The Iowa DOT is beginning to implement a truck parking information management system that will give truckers information on available parking at public rest areas and private truck stops along I-80.
View ArticlePilot Flying J adds real-time parking information to app for certain locations
So far, the company has added wireless traffic sensors to 30 PFJ locations along the I-5 corridor from San Diego to Seattle, as well as one location in Knoxville, Tenn., that will feed real-time...
View ArticleSeven Connecticut rest areas with more than 200 truck parking spots on...
Connecticut DOT spokesman Kevin Nursick said his department conducted a study several years ago that revealed a truck parking deficit of 1,200 spaces each night. The seven rest areas under threat of...
View ArticleTrucking Parking USA app partners with ProMiles to offer fuel pricing, routing
The app will now provide location-based fuel pricing tool for truck drivers to view current retail diesel prices at thousands of truck stop locations. The app also considers routes based on truck...
View ArticlePOLL: What’s happened to the parking situation since the ELD mandate?
Have peak parking-congestion periods extended, or do spaces seem more available when you need them? Are you paying to reserve spaces, or running at night to avoid peak times? Weigh in here.
View ArticleDOT plans to survey truck stops, states and enforcers about parking shortage
Following up on a 2014 survey of truck drivers about the challenges they face in finding secure parking, the U.S. DOT’s Federal Highway Administration announced last week it plans to survey truck stop...
View ArticleFour western states seek funding for truck parking information system
The I-10 Corridor Coalition, made up of departments of transportation from Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, is seeking a $13.7 million grant through the FHWA to develop a system that would...
View ArticleN.C. city bans parking trucks at drivers’ homes
Rocky Mount, N.C.'s city council adopted an ordinance that bans the parking of commercial vehicles and/or trailers longer than 25 feet or weighing more than 10,000 pounds, which includes Class 3-8...
View ArticleFlorida rolls out truck parking availability notices on I-95 and I-4, plans...
Last month, electronic signs in Brevard, Flagler and Seminole counties began displaying running totals of available parking slots at five rest areas and two weigh stations on I-95 and I-4. The signs...
View ArticleCapacity, awareness keys to alleviating trucking’s parking shortage, panel says
Advice and encouragement on parking from a panel of researchers, infrastructure planners and seasoned owner-operators, who spoke in a panel discussion in late August at the Great American Trucking Show.
View ArticleParking provider looking to expand in Washington
The Truck Depot company hopes to implement lessons learned at the company's principal parking site in Troutdale, Ore., at up to five sites in Washington State in collaboration in the state's Department...
View ArticleMichigan DOT set to close I-275 rest area
MDOT says the rest area “has exceeded its useful service life and would require significant investment to remain open.” The location will close permanently on Nov. 14. It offers 29 truck parking spaces.
View ArticleTexas town can now enforce truck parking bans on private property
The new ordinance in Midland gives business owners the ability to prohibit truck parking on their property with enforcement provided by the city. The ordinance allows the city to fine truckers parked...
View ArticleTxDOT moves on truck-parking survey, workshop series throughout the state
Texas Department of Transportation reps have moved on efforts to assess a way forward on potentially taking steps to improve parking infrastructure for truckers hauling to, through and from the state....
View ArticleDOT launches second Jason’s Law truck parking survey
The new version of the survey is meant to update the inventory of truck parking and identify improvements to truck parking availability since the first survey; evaluate truck travel by state to...
View ArticlePennsylvania seeks feedback on truck parking
Through PennDOT’s Public-Private Partnership (P3) Office, the agency is looking for feedback to potentially help develop future statewide or regional projects addressing commercial truck parking in the...
View ArticleNational truck-parking coalition releases working-group resource materials
Regardless of just where parking needs are greatest, in the wake of Jason's Law and ongoing organization around the nation to address them, "today’s shortage of truck parking capacity is a national...
View ArticleMichigan, Ohio expanding truck parking information systems
Michigan DOT says it is adding new parking locations at eight rest areas and is adding nine new signs to show truck parking availability. Ohio DOT is also putting up nine signs to alert truck drivers...
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