Tag: parking: Page 16

Parking

ATRI looking for drivers to keep truck parking ‘diaries’ for two weeks

The American Transportation Research Institute is recruiting drivers to keep a 14-day truck parking diary to keep track of parking issues.

March 21, 2016

Business

Trucker Path reaches 1 million downloads milestone

The Trucker Path Pro smartphone app now provides a new user-friendly overall design as well as a new “Fuel View” feature, showing prices along particular lanes displayed on a map.

March 9, 2016

Channel 19

The parking shortage and North Carolina’s ‘data-driven’ enforcement

How counting disabled vehicles as “parked” vehicles contributed to the expansion of N.C.’s truck parking enforcement effort last year. High time more states attracted tax revenue by encouraging parking facility development rather than going after $25 fines and court costs.

March 8, 2016

Channel 19

New Peterbilt dealer open in Lincoln, Neb.

New Peterbilt of Lincoln dealer location expands parking, service and sales area at I-80 exit 405 in Nebraska — now part of the Midwest Peterbilt Group, which will be familiar to regular readers for a variety of reasons …

March 5, 2016

Business

The Dipwad 500

Wendy on the most popular race going: “Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here. Truck stop racing is based on the premise that no one else around matters much, and safety is for the birds.”

March 2, 2016

Parking

Trucking groups fighting state initiatives to close rest stops

Notes on closures in Connecticut and Arkansas, and a new one in North Carolina. Trucking groups, meanwhile, continue to fight closures, which come in response to tightening state budgets.

February 16, 2016

Parking

Truck ‘N Park demonstration hits the ground running

I-95 Corridor Coalition Truck ‘N Park project coordinator Marygrace Parker realizes capacity is the biggest issue when it comes to truck parking, she says, but hopes real-time availability-info sharing can at least help mitigate the problem in the short term.

February 15, 2016

Business

Crowd-sourcing load/unload location info with Trelp

Information available to access or add within Trelp includes the location of nearby parking, precise directions to and around the facility, location of unmarked low clearances, contact person at facilities and more.

January 15, 2016

Business

Let’s talk about trucking

“A recent Facebook post of a dog with a piece of ham on its face caused the internet to blow up with concerns for the dog. A trucker is shot in the gut in an attack that could have been prevented with safe parking, and no one cares.”

January 13, 2016

Business

Put down your hay forks and listen to how silly this sounds

Quit talking, start doing -- "The parking issue is not insurmountable, but it will require action instead of surveys, data collection, and general messing around."

January 4, 2016

Channel 19

The tightening knot of ELDs, hours, parking: Channel 19 year in review, the finale

As in 2014 with the restart rollback, several issues came to a head in the last month of 2015, bring us back to where we started in this year in review: The problem with the hours of service, readers say, is a central safety issue.

December 31, 2015

Business

What missed the cut for 2016

Sometimes, making resolutions is hard: On shedding the right ones for a successful, productive year — and more.

December 30, 2015