Can I park my semi truck on side of road to sleep?

avoid the sides of the road. Instead try parking behind a lowes or home depot.

 

Sure if you want to....but....

 

Sleep alone?

You sure you're in the right line of work? Solitary private parking will be the exception, not the norm. Didn't really think the career choice through did you?

As mentioned above Home Depot and lowes you usually can sneak into. Sometimes grocery stores depending on the size and layout of the lot. Sometimes frontage roads beside the interstate will have pulloffs but these you'll learn through time and experience to be marked in your gps. Likewise some hardees, Mickey d's and jacks eating joints have limited truck parking. Abandoned warehouses and strip malls. Mark them all when you see them and file them by state and road in your gps. I have a gold mine of secret spots in mine. Make sure they aren't signed no trucks or no parking.

Stay off the side of the road. It isn't safe to park and in many places you'll notice those signs that say 'emergency parking only' scattered along the roadside. Don't invite a ticket or much worse.....

One of my former students called me just 2 weeks ago really shook up. He had ran out of hours due to a shipper delay and couldn't park there and tried to park on one of the little dirt pulloffs on the side of 460 in va. Woke up 3am with cops beating on his door and blue lights and a rollover not 3 feet from his hood. But for 3 feet he could have died sleeping and not known it. It just isn't safe to do.

 

I hate parking on the shoulder when I'm broke down, with the triangles out.
And you want to park there to sleep???
Steal your mom's dish rag and bury it, that is how you cute asthma

 

If you park on the shoulder and somebody hit you, it will be your fault. Even if that person was drunk. A car rear ended you is fatal. How about you pull in a spot instead of backing in, like the back row or rest area

 

Next he will be wanting a private toilet because public restrooms are revolting....

 

You may want to rethink OTR driving and look at a more local job where you can sleep at home.