CA: Citation for parking on interstate on/off ramps

Was the ticket written by the same cop?
GETTING POINTS FROM PARKING?!?!?! WTF!!!!

 

This is something I've noticed during my short time on the road. Most states do not provide for adequate parking for us to pull over to stay within the HoS rules. Wish the government would step in and blackmail the states into fixing this issue.

 

sorry to say it, but comes down to poor trip planning.we all now at 3am the truck stops are full and like you said, nothing out there, you basically did what a lot of drivers do, to a gamble, and lost. sorry if you don't like my post, but is just the plain truth, even safety will tell you the same thing.

 

Sorry. There are times when you have absolutely no choice but to be on the road late. There's been many times where I've been at the shipper long enough for a 10 hour break, and then once loaded, have to burn some miles in order to make the delivery on time. Driving during the day and stopping at 4pm to ensure I get a parking spot is a pipe dream in many cases.

 

I understand that, but at the same time, proper trip planning will keep things like tha t from happening. But at the same time, if you have to run that hard to make it, tells me your running funny book, not cool, not worth your lic, your life or someone elses, and when you get busted, company aint going to bail you out. I will never understand drivers who wont take blam for thier actions, its always someone elses fualt, or are willing to run illegal as hell for the same cheap rate of pay, then are mad when they get fired for doing it, or get popped by DOT for doing it, makes no scence. I log what i do, everytime, and still get my miles legally everyday, and still bring home a half way good paycheck and good sound mind doing it. If i sit that long, I tell my dm that I can't make that next del or pu time and send in a safe and legal time as to when I can, and never have I had a issue with it.

 

If you sat at the shipper for 10 hours and then need to turn and burn.
All you would need to do is send in a message on the qualcomm telling the company to reset the delivery time as it took the shipper so long to get you loaded.

I have had to turn and burn before but I would not do it and put myself in a place were there would be no parking.

Even if it would mean I would only drive for 5 hours then shut down again.

I most of the time shut down about 5-7 pm that way in most areas I have parking if there is not parking I would still have time to find a spot.

I was up in Montana once and I had to find a place to shut down but I ended up going over by 1 hour because on the roads the company had me on there were not too many truckstops I could find.

I ended up stopping in superior montana at a ''truckstop'' it had a dirt lot for three trucks I got one there was a car blocking one and another trucker took the other one and the A@$hole blocked me in.

I was backed up to a dirt pile and the trucker pulled in beside me but the driver put the back of the trailer even with my front bumper with the rest of his truck continuing in front of me so I could not get out untill that person left thankfully not long after I got up.

 

The couple of times I've had to do this was on a weekend. Nobody at the receiver to reschedule with. Thankfully, I don't have a problem with driving at night, so usually I just run until early A.M., then stop when most everyone else is pulling out.