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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Is Jason’s Law in Truck Parking?
Imagine visiting a grocery store for your weekly shop. Faced with an empty cart bay, an attendant springs into view, cheerfully informing you that grocery stores everywhere now have one cart available per ten customers. With eight people waiting ahead of you, it could be a long evening. That would be preposterous, wouldn’t it. Let’s […]
Commercial Truck Parking Regulations: Where Can I Park My Truck?
Finding a spot for your semi truck can quickly get frustrating, especially as you approach the end of your daily driving time limit. This is where the desperation starts to kick in. And when it does, you may be tempted to become a bit more ‘creative’ when parking your rig. And we get this. Finding […]
Women in Trucking
Being the most common job almost in every state, there are only 15.7% of women truckies in the US, compared to 84.3% of male truck drivers. Gender imbalance isn’t the only rising issue in the trucking industry – trucking companies expand significantly every year, leading to nationwide shortages of employees. At the same time, women, […]
10 Tips for Getting Quality Sleep Before You Hit the Road
If you think about it, the words ‘OTR truck driver’ and ‘good night’s sleep’ are rarely used in the same sentence together. For the most part, sleeping in a truck all night is not naturally conducive to deep, heavy sleep. Rarely will you see a truck driver spring out of a semi cab on a […]
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