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Parking

Five Apps for That: Take the guesswork out of parking

Five apps for your phone to help you find parking.

December 26, 2016

Channel 19

Turning the worm on parking

Advocates stress the need for greater driver communication with state/local Metropolitan Planning Organizations on the need for better truck parking — and AsktheTrucker.com offers an MPO directory online to help facilitate communication.

December 20, 2016

Parking

ATRI ‘parking diaries’ reveal ELDs make finding parking more difficult

Parking diaries kept by nearly 600 truck drivers for two weeks this year revealed truckers spend an average of 56 minutes per day searching for parking, costing them nearly $5,000 a year in wages. The report also showed truckers using ELDs spend more time searching for parking than those using paper logs.

December 14, 2016

Business

The Haven

Wendy’s parody of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” poem details an encounter with a local LEO tap tap tapping on the driver’s door: “I’m here for sleep, and nothing more.”

December 12, 2016

Parking

New parking app will take hours of service into account when locating parking

The app will allow drivers to enter their remaining driving time to see where parking spaces are available within drivers’ remaining on-duty hours.

December 9, 2016

Voices

New priorities for a new DOT secretary?: Take two

A bevy of reader voices raised in response to the question: “What would be your message to Trump’s incoming DOT leader?” Issues of regulation (the ELD mandate chief among them), parking/infrastructure and driver pay loomed largest.

December 7, 2016

Voices

POLL: What should be priority No. 1 for a new DOT Secretary in the coming year?

What would you tell a new DOT secretary — indications are Trump will nominate former DOL Secretary Elaine Chao — to make the No. 1 priority in the coming year?

December 7, 2016

Channel 19

Parking capacity issue, redux: Va. DOT shelves truck rest area plans

The parking capacity issue and one state’s attempt to put a dent in it runs into a wall of local opposition — such that Va. DOT has moved publicly to suspend the project and explore alternatives,

November 10, 2016

Business

Parking needs on Washington State’s radar

If you don’t include three truck stops at the north, south and eastern edges metropolitan Seattle, the area containsonly about 200 to 300 truck parking spaces. It’s a fact that Washington State patrol is well aware of and is making moves to combat.

November 3, 2016

Channel 19

Thursday roundup: Chiropractors and sleep apnea tests, Rhode Island throws parking bone to truckers

Road report from owner-operator Joe Bielucki on a recently-reopened Rhode Island truck rest area on I-95, and a view on the Medical Review Board’s recent apnea screening/testing recommendation: Should chiropractors be able to order retesting?

October 27, 2016

Parking

ATRI surveying truckers on parking in North Carolina

The 24-question survey asks drivers about the difficulty of finding parking in North Carolina, where parking can be found, the time of day it’s most difficult to find parking and more.

October 20, 2016

Parking

Trucker Path to now market independent truck stops in app

According to Trucker Path, more than 80 percent of the truck stops in the app are independently-owned, yet receive 75 percent fewer interactions than the larger truck stops.

October 12, 2016