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Channel 19

Hours recap: New regs bringing old practice to the fore?; OK tornado intel

More and more under new hours rules, drivers and owner-operators are expecting a turn away from the restart and back to the recap. You? Also: A brief update on OK tornado relief expectations.

May 21, 2013

Parking

National truck-parking driver survey launched

Here find out how to take the survey, created by Hope Rivenburg in part in concert with driver advocates Allen and Donna Smith of Truth About Trucking and aimed at educating the DOT on parking needs.

May 15, 2013

Parking

Warner Robins ordinance repealed!

Last night Wendy’s home town council voted down the restrictive two-hour truck parking ordinance they’d approved just two weeks prior. Here’s why.

March 5, 2013

Parking

Georgia city mayor requesting driver aid

Warner Robins, Ga., mayor Chuck Shaheen is hoping truck drivers will attend a city council meeting March 4 at 4 p.m. to voice their concerns over the city’s two-hour parking limitation.

March 3, 2013

Parking

Mayor: Warner Robins parking ban needs compromise

City mayor Chuck Shaheen calls for town council to compromise on the new two-hour time limit.

February 25, 2013

Parking

C’mon, Warner Robins — show us some love

Wendy Parker on her hometown’s ban of truck parking: “Set a precedent for the rest of the country. Find a way to not only make it work, find a way to make it work for both the trucker and the city.”

February 23, 2013

Channel 19

When trucks are ‘an eyesore and a nuisance’

It’s happened again: A city councilman’s idea to ban truck parking within town borders shows evidence of what drivers and other advocates are up against in the battle to improve parking availability in less-served areas.

February 19, 2013

Parking

Eating in the dark

Be careful what you put in your mouth on a night haul on a strange route.

February 17, 2013

Parking

Abolish three-in-one sinks — now!

Wendy sends a message to Congress: “If we’re going to start outlawing stuff because it’s dangerous, I think we should start with the automatic sensors on every stinking sink between here and Timbuktu.”

February 1, 2013

Parking

Minnesota to use cameras at truck stops, rest areas to help truckers find parking

The Minnesota DOT announced a testing program at a rest area in which cameras in the parking lot will find and notify truckers of available parking.

January 23, 2013

Parking

More parking now, please; alternatives to ‘sailboat fuel’

A reader follows up on our parking-push coverage from September 2012, and several offer preferred slang options for that lightest of loads — nothing.

January 11, 2013

Parking

Snow, wind play havoc on plains

Snow prompted Wednesday evening closures of I-70 in Kansas among other roadways.

December 20, 2012