Eight-state truck parking information initiative nears full launch
Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota and Kansas DOTs each announced earlier this month they have launched their versions of the truck parking space counting system, joining Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin...
View ArticleNational Coalition on Truck Parking’s advocacy resources released with...
All Coalition-working-group resources are now available in both html and pdf formats, the former designed for easy online reading, the latter for the ability to print and distribute for those getting...
View ArticleTexas receives grant to help fund I-10 corridor truck parking information system
The $6.8 million grant from the Federal Highway Administration will be used to implement a truck parking availability detection and information dissemination system at 37 public truck parking locations...
View ArticleATRI seeking trucker input on truck parking information systems
The data collection from truckers is part of ATRI’s 2019 top priority research topic to standardize truck parking information systems based on driver preferences. The group is looking for information...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticlePenn., 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...
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticleOregon 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...
View ArticleTruckPark 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...
View ArticleOregon’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.
View ArticlePOLL: How often, if at all, do you pay for the ability to reserve a parking...
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...
View Article‘People don’t understand — we have nowhere to go’: GATS panel presses for...
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.
View ArticleNext truck-parking workshop to focus on Greater Cincinnati area
Tuesday, October 22, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., truck parking stakeholders are being invited to participate in a workshop to be aimed at sussing out problem areas and proposing solutions for truck...
View ArticleParking perils: The increasing cost, and risk, of booting and towing
Booting and towing incidents have become more numerous and more costly, owner-operators and others report. Some advocates call for national regulation of the practice, particularly when drivers are...
View ArticleSometimes, renegade booters get their just desserts
A case in Charlotte saw a booter operating on a disused lot without the permission of the property owner. The result, after research on the part of local police and the small fleet owner whose driver...
View ArticleReaders diverge on the value of a parking reservation
Ensuring you won’t have to risk the potential for a boot is at least possible in today’s world. About one in four owner-operators (24%) report regular use of paid advance parking-reservation systems....
View ArticleJustice sometimes finds renegade booters
A case in Charlotte saw a booter operating on a disused lot without the permission of the property owner. The result, after research on the part of local police and the small fleet owner whose driver...
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