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How to Draft a Truck Parking Lot Business Plan

How to Draft a Truck Parking Lot Business Plan

Running a truck parking lot – it’s a bigger opportunity than you may realize. Truck drivers constantly need places to rest up along their routes across the country. Yet suitable parking spaces remain limited. By transforming available land into a trucker oasis, you tap into this high-demand market. Platforms like Truck Parking Club even provide […]

Evan Shelley
January 18, 2024
How to Run a Successful Truck Parking Business

How to Run a Successful Truck Parking Business

If you strip away the layers of any business, the operation usually boils down to two core elements: identifying a problem, and providing a solution. From small market stalls to multinational corporate giants, all businesses revolve around this basic premise in some way. When identifying a new business opportunity, the ideal scenario is to easily […]

Evan Shelley
January 18, 2024
8 Biggest Trucking Industry Challenges for 2024

8 Biggest Trucking Industry Challenges for 2024

From truck stop cafes to corporate executive suites, speculation about rising issues has always been rife in the transport sector. While you could say the same about any industry, the transport sector specifically does tend to boast a well-oiled rumor mill, more than most. But as we roll towards 2024, predictions about various industry challenges […]

Evan Shelley
December 17, 2023
How to Pass the Time at a Truck Parking Lot

How to Pass the Time at a Truck Parking Lot

One thousand, eight hundred and twenty hours… That’s the approximate length of time the average trucker spends overnight parking at truck stops, rest areas, or other parking spots while on breaks. Every year.  Given that truck stops are such a huge part of our lives, we thought it might be helpful to run through a […]

Evan Shelley
December 15, 2023
Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act: What Is It and How Does It Address the US Truck Parking Shortage?

Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act: What Is It and How Does It Address the US Truck Parking Shortage?

After years of negligence, the US government finally became interested in resolving the growing truck parking shortage problem. In March 2023, the Senate introduced the Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act, which aims to increase the number of truck parking spaces within the upcoming years.  The new legislation has caused a lot of commotion in the […]

Evan Shelley
December 13, 2023
Why Transform Your Property Into a Truck Parking Lot: Benefits of Starting a Truck Parking Business

Why Transform Your Property Into a Truck Parking Lot: Benefits of Starting a Truck Parking Business

As the owner of vacant commercial land, you may have considered various ways to generate revenue from your asset but have yet to arrive at anything ideal. You are not short on ideas, but all possibilities seem to require a substantial commitment in terms of time, money, and ongoing management. Construction. Entertainment. Retail Development. Hospitality. […]

Evan Shelley
December 11, 2023
How to Keep Your Truck Parking Lot Secure?

How to Keep Your Truck Parking Lot Secure?

As a truck parking lot owner, you’re responsible for keeping your visiting truckers and the freight they haul safe and sound. If anything bad happens, for example, the cargo gets stolen, you have a lawsuit coming your way.  In the best-case scenario, you pay a fine and hope they don’t report the case further. Worst-case […]

Evan Shelley
December 9, 2023
Overnight Truck Parking Safety Tips

Overnight Truck Parking Safety Tips

Many truck drivers spend the night worrying about the safety of their cargo. It shouldn’t be that way. Parking your semi truck overnight should be all about resting after the day on the road.  Unfortunately, that’s not something all truck stops or truck parking lots in the US can provide. Many of the lots you […]

Evan Shelley
December 7, 2023
Benefits of Private Truck Parking Lots: Why You Shouldn’t be Afraid to Park at a Private Parking Lot

Benefits of Private Truck Parking Lots: Why You Shouldn’t be Afraid to Park at a Private Parking Lot

Let’s face it – finding a free truck parking space to rest or sleep has never been easy in this country. However, the ongoing nationwide truck parking shortage has made it even more challenging.  And since parking a truck on the side of a highway or a ramp is illegal, that doesn’t leave a trucker […]

Evan Shelley
December 5, 2023
NYC Truck Parking Rules

NYC Truck Parking Rules

It’s top of the heap and king of the hill, according to Frank Sinatra. Robert De Niro thinks it is the most exciting city in the world. Most people, actually, seem to love the place. We don’t disagree. But we can only assume that Ol Blue Eyes and Bobby D never had cause to drive […]

Evan Shelley
December 3, 2023