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Parking

New trucker-friendly hotel-booking engine

PTAG, the Professional Trucker’s Association Group, has launched its “PTAG Safe Truck Parking Program,” primarily a hotel-booking engine with negotiated discounts built in, the organization notes.

December 30, 2015

Channel 19

Counting down the hours to 2016: The Channel 19 year in review, part 1

We’ve got a full 14-hour clock’s worth of on-duty time, and more, left yet, so check back tomorrow and on New Year’s Eve for the second and third parts of this the annual year in review on the Channel 19 blog.

December 28, 2015

Parking

Top 20 worst states for truck parking

Though California tops Overdrive’s weighted rankings of the worst states for truck parking at No. 1, Northeast states occupied Nos. 2-6. Access news of new developments and more data in the top 20 list and these interactive maps.

December 14, 2015

Channel 19

Bad news from the parking trail: Another lot joins the ‘no parking’ list

The expanses of Walmart parking lots were once viewed as friendly places for an overnight, and were often utilized by truckers in locales under-served by traditional truck stops — that continues to change …

December 12, 2015

Parking

Parking: Data on rest areas v. truck stops

Data show that parking issues aren’t limited to states showing a high percentage of publicly controlled spaces or those with a high percentage of private spaces.

December 3, 2015

Parking

Parking: ‘It’s bad all over’

With a major study out and a new national coalition beginning regional meetings, the heat’s up on the increasing need for safe parking.

December 1, 2015

Channel 19

‘Do we need any more trucks in our community?’

What happens when a service shop wants to put in secured truck parking on their property — citizen backlash, citing “every kind of crime” trucks supposedly bring with them.

November 27, 2015

Parking

Parking: Creative approach meets small-minded resistance in Hutchins, Texas

Where parking needs may increasingly be met: Efforts by fleets, shippers and receivers, even your preferred service location, to accommodate overnight truck parking needs.

November 27, 2015

Parking

ELDs, hours, parking: Owner-operators’ top 3 critical issues

Considerable fleet/operator common ground is seen in hours of service, CSA, parking and related issues, though the economy ranks higher in Overdrive’s list. Plus: Voices on the “Missouri Truck Ferry” project.

November 20, 2015

Parking

The rise of pay-to-park

While some owner-operators appreciate the ability to reserve a space, Chuck Bishop of Sanger, Texas, thinks otherwise. Pilot Flying J, meanwhile, may be next with a systemwide pay-to-park system.

November 19, 2015

Parking

Too many cats, not enough walls

“Truckers are dirty” — the erroneous contention state and local governments trot out to “restrict parking for all truckers. It’s like saying all cats pee on walls, so we can’t build any more walls.”

November 16, 2015

Parking

Rhode Island receives $9M grant for new travel plaza/welcome center

Rhode Island will build a new, state-of-the-art travel plaza and welcome center with the help of a $9 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

November 6, 2015