Should Truckstops Charge For Parking?

The TA in Washington DC has a guard shack, first 2 hrs free, its 10 or 15 bucks otherwise, or must show receipt of spending more than 10 or 15 dollars in there, cant remember the amount. They cant even keep the panhandlers out, and its basically a shi# hole.

No, we shouldnt get charged, you know how many thousands of dollars in fuel I get at pilots, TA's, Petro, etc.? A freakin lot, the least they can give me is all the free parking I want. BS, the fuel alone entitles us to free parking, period. Plus I spend a lot for other stuff too. No trucker running decent miles is a freeloader.

 

When the day comes that I get charged to park the truck every night, that's about the time I quit driving OTR.

 

this has to be 1 of the dumbest threads i have ever seen on ttr.where else are we supposed to park?with all the fuel we buy ever day from these fuel stop chains i think they get enough as it is...guess you think walmart should start to charge for parking too.....

 

please tell me,do you really think there are truckers out there that never have to fuel up?how the hell do you know where they fuel?what if i just fueled at the ta 50 miles back?i bought there service already that day.then it's time to go nite nite.so you are saying what exactly?what would make you happy mr parking lot enforcer?50,100,200 per stop?i say lead by example mr im so great i blindside back while im in the bunk making a sandwhich at the same time super parking trucker?

start posting up proof where you drop 100$ everytime you go into a truckstop....

 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT lets say the T/A'S in Ontario Ca didnt charger for parking do you know how many truck would be in that area at 1 time just think about it most places that charge for parking are in heavily trafficed areas and the charge clears up the congestion. Let see T/A Dallas,Petro West Memphis,T/A Denver, T/A Jessup,Md, all the places are in congested area look at Arizona,New Mexico they dont charge for parking and if some1 does guess what it more places to park. Charge for parking in certain area and it does keep the Riffraf out

 

you do know how many trucks are on the road right?say you ran your log book out where you going to park?say you fueled up 100 miles back at the same chain but still had a couple hours left on the logs?we buy plenty everyday so wtf are you talking about?

 

You took that word right out of my mouth (or in this case keyboard).

 

Its called trip planning everybody knows what truck stop will and wont have parking so if you dont know guess what you will park next to the scale like you always do cause you cant back up.

 

Nothing could be further from the truth!! So you are telling me when I buy fuel at cost-plus pricing and save anywhere from .05 to .50 cent off a gallon that the truckstop is taking a loss?? They want you to think they only make .02 to .04 cents a gallon to make everyone quit belly aching at the cost.

 

CAN'T BACK UP?yea iv'e been in the biz so long but i still have no clue as to backing up...btw what does backing up have to do with knowing if a ts has parking or not?

guess you like pissing away your payck on over regulated ########.the dumb in this country really runs deep.