Be Prepared To Add San Antonio To The No Truck Parking List

I delivered in Dallas recently. Not much in the way of parking, but found some street parking. I can tell you why more places are not allowing truck parking. Too many drivers are animals. Straight out, stinking, animals. Crap bags, trash bags, piss bottles. If I was a mayor of a town, or whoever makes makes the laws, I would be sorely tempted to shoot these scums on sight. These are the scums who are ruining it for most of us. Down with flip-flop wearers!!

 

If San Antonio can't find a solution, then it's just a money grab.
Industrial parks are built, then say "No Truck Parking"

 

well to be honest, industrial parks are for the businesses that got out of the tight cities, where they can expand thier footprint and build a larger warehouse.

they have parking onsite for thier equipment, but do not have to allow anyone else to park on the property for the same reasons as the scumbags littering the city streets.

even the roadways in an industrial park, do not have to allow overnight truck parking.

it's a good place to try and find overnight parking, but in the end, it can be disallowed every bit as much, as it it still owned many times, by the developer/overall land owner, where the businesses pay the lease, rent, upkeep, etc.

many industrial parks are very well kept clean, neat and tidy, and can be in just about any magazine to promote moving there....

no need for scumbags to muck it up..........or trucks parked there for countless days on end, especially in the winter season, when snow plowing can be interrupted by those trucks sitting there.

 

This is where zoning and permitting comes into play. When a developer wants to build a subdivision, they must provide flood control/retention ponds, public space/parks, etc. You want to build a warehouse subdivision, then you also need to build a truckstop with parking to accommodate X% of the trucks projected to cycle through the industrial park.

 

i don't "see" where it's the developers responsibility to build a truck stop.

all the developer has to do is provide for the warehouses, rain run off, water lines for fire equipment, etc.

they don't even have to provide a special exit off the highway.

that all boils down to the "truckers responsibility"

 

It's the community's responsibility to MAKE IT the developer's responsibility. They're the ones that will be dealing with the problems. Problem is that the community want's the taxes and jobs without being in any way inconvenienced.

 

Dallas is tough as far as truckstops. There basically aren’t really any. However, most of the industrial park areas which are scattered all throughout the area you can sneak into them park on the street and no one will bother you. I have several places in and around Dallas, that I can stealth park and get my bike out ride around town. A few decent hotels with truck parking as well.

As far as what San Antonio is trying to do, I’m kind of shocked with some of the responses on here. I despise towns and communities that treat us like second class citizens. “Bring us our stuff and get the hell out of here.” As most of you probably have become numb to it I haven’t. I get mad when I see my fellow truck drivers treated like second-class citizens just because they drive a truck. I see it all the time at shippers and receivers and just different scenarios.

 

if i lived close to an industrial park, i too would want the taxes, and jobs...but frankly, i'd not want to have the trucks parked overnight.

this coming from a 48 year trucker.

 

Having a hard time finding parking is a shameful outcome of our truck hating, self righteous politicians and citizens who are too ignorant and genuinely stupid to realize that we butter the bread they eat. What I am getting at is that we need to not crap in our nests when we find that rare place to park. When we do, it will just keep getting worse.