reserved parking at TA and petro?

if I built a truckstop around boston everyone would pay
and it would be full
if I built a pay TS in iowa I would go broke
economics101
seems to me

the 595 TS in Miami probably cant charge enough compared to what the land is worth

 

I was wondering why the ticket booth at the entrance of the t/a & petro was empty ? new management found a way to rake more cash out of drivers

 

Those are excellent points but if the Boston truckstop charged for 100% of parking, then that would encourage a competitor to come in next door. Now, a new competitor may still mean you'll keep your paid spots full for a time due to severely limited truck parking in the Boston region, but that will mean fuel pricing will become competitive. And that will lead to you having to reduce your fuel prices to entice trucks to your paid parking model, away from the free parking model. That's not something either party wants.

Outside of perhaps some NE states where fuel taxes are high, location is at the extremity, and national carriers refuse to fuel, the purpose of investing in a truck stop is to sell 3-5 tanker loads of fuel a day @ $0.30 - $0.40 gallon. If you're going to sell that much fuel you have to have sufficient parking to support that. If you can't accept the huge investment/reward game of the truck stop business, you don't have any business being in the truck stop game.

But if we're going to have to pay $12 to park for 11 hours at a 100% paid parking stop, there better be very good security, wide spots, well paved lots, reasonably priced fuel, no drugs or prostitution, good food and showers, and easy access, otherwise it's going to fail

 

Depends where in Iowa the stops outside des Moines and Davenport get pretty full every night and both 80 and 35 are main cross country freight corridors plus you have a great deal of agricultural trucking in rural parts Iowa not only grows tons of corn and soybean but also has many feedlots and processing plants scattered all across the state

 

I laugh at the TA in laredo...the sign on the ticket machine states this.."sorry for the inconvenience but we are unable to charge for parking at this time"...

inconvenience???...maybe for them, sure as heck not for the driver.. I laugh everytime I go in there & see that sign!

 

They may be legitimate tax deductions, but I'd rather not spend money to earn the right to claim them. I see that as wasting money for no reason.

 

well the only point is Brooklyn iowa and Brooklyn ny are 2 different brooklyn's

 

The bottom line is they are now charging for something that used to be free. And if this little program is a big money maker for them, then they will block more and more spots. Of course they will. They won't stop because it's all about dollars and cents to them. I hate those stupid commercials they run on the radio patting themselves on the back for "addressing the parking issue." They didn't address jack ****. And don't tell me I have a choice where I take my business because if I am stuck out of hours for some reason I am forced to park at whichever TS is closest. Sometimes it's a TA, unfortunately.

 

The TA in Jessup, MD you have to pay to park if you don't get fuel, plus they have about 15 spots that you can reserve. It's a big truck stop, but I'd pay to reserve a spot there if I'm running late at night.


What a lot of people forget is, truck stops are a BUSINESS. They are out to make money, they raised the price for showers and a few other things.

They are offering a service, they see there are more trucks on the road than there were a few years ago. So they start charging for parking, if they're in a busy area, people will pay to park there. It's a smart business strategy to make more money, BUT we happen to be on the wrong side of the fence


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Prehaps if these truck stops stoped giving a .15/.45 discount on fuel to trucking companies, they could go back to free parking and not makeup the profit lost on these discounts by charging drivers for every "little" thing they can think of. Remember when the coffee was free when you got a tank of fuel??