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Reader: Parking enforcement in La Porte, Texas, gets tough

Clark Freight Lines Safety Director (and La Porte police officer) Jeffrey Tippit on city’s move to get tough enforcing a no-parking ordinance extending to retail parking lots.

January 28, 2014

Circle, circle, dot dot dot….

In which Wendy proposes a research project, and “someone’s sister-in-law needed a job, so they created the ‘Fund for Dumb Stuff’… Progress, people, progress.”

January 8, 2014

Added bonus at the W.Va. Tamarack

In 1996, Tamarack was opened by the West Virginia Parkways Authority at the Beckley Service Plaza on I-64 as an economic development project.

December 27, 2013

Find photos (all by owner-operator George Parker) of the well-appointed facilities at Beckley in the gallery at the bottom of this story.

Last haul from the Texas pea harvest: Unloading with Cody Blankenship

Photos and reporting from a Bells, Tenn., unload with Cody Blankenship, who sees parking availability as the biggest issue going, despite Jason’s Law. Hours, e-logs compound the problem…

December 17, 2013

Owner-operator Cody Blankenship

West Virginia to get truck parking alert system

The West Virginia Division of Highways will offer a guidance system to alert truckers to available parking via roadway signs and the 511 Traveler Information platform.

December 10, 2013

Report: Open road is gone as modern trucker grapples with hours rules, e-logs and parking shortages

A Wall Street Journal report says a “confusing tangle of rules” and a myriad of devices like electronic logs and speed limiters are dampening not only the industry’s efficiency but the will of those who are and want to be truck drivers.

November 14, 2013

The real effect of the new hours rules

The people who make the rules of the road should have to see a grown man running around in his underwear in the middle of the night before they make everyone park at the same time.

August 4, 2013

‘Parking firestorm’ cools into substantive, driver-led effort

Independent owner-operator Jason Haggard is urging able drivers to join him at a June 18 council meeting in Coon Rapids, Minn., to begin the process of meeting with the city to address the parking fiasco there.

June 15, 2013

Click through this image for a larger version of the actual warning issued to violators of Coon Rapids’ parking ordinance, posted on owner-operator Jason Haggard’s website and including the ordinance’s language.

Local kudos: Campo, Colo.

When a tornado warning was issued May 22 in Campo, Colo., this year, Karen and Tom Moore saw firsthand the hospitality of the town’s local law enforcement officials.

June 11, 2013

campo colorado map

Catching flies with honey: A parking firestorm in Minnesota

Following a widely circulated picture posted about the truck-parking ordinance banning trucking parking and passed by Coon Rapids, Minn., last year, Wendy reaches out to the city council.

June 10, 2013

This photo was posted by driver Steven Weber to Facebook after he saw it on the window of a truck parked next to him in Coon Rapids, Minn. Click through it for a larger version on Facebook to read it.

LETTER: Earn your ‘professional’ title

Reader Earnest J. Williams on the furor over a Walmart that recently banned truck parking: “I have noticed that when we are wrong about something, we really don’t want to have our errs pointed out to us, especially publicly.”

June 2, 2013

Unwanted visitors at a Texas Walmart

Seen at the Walmart in Lancaster, Texas: NO TRUCK PARKING — VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE. And it gets hairier…

May 29, 2013

Walmart boycott sticker

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