Home time

I can only speak about the company I work for. The company I work for let's you park anywhere in a safe location that is allowed. So if there is a business you know the owner and get permission to park there for x amount of days without having to worry about moving it. Or you can park in a truck stop or something similar. You can even take the truck home.
Personally I usually leave it at a local truck stop but have once drove to my house. I would not recommend taking it home if you have a trailer unless you have plenty if room and consider that you shouldn't try move the truck when you on your home time. Unless your still on paper logs then maybe it won't matter as much.
Some truck stops if there close to home might even have a place to park your car so when you go for hometime you can jump right into your car instead of calling a uber

 

We had some acreage. Parked the truck on that. It has to be good ground. A couple of dump loads of gravel took care of that. Cheaper than watching a small wrecker extract our rig from bad ground at our expense.

The neighbors were more than nice to us, especially when we cranked at 2 am to go to work. They know it might be 9 months before they have to be bothered with that big horse waking them up.

 

Truck stops these days will have your truck towed if you don't have permission to leave it there. Tow & storage can be expensive; a couple thousand dollars easy. Get permission from the truck stop manager & possible pay a parking fee.

 

There used to be a Frederick 76 I would leave the whole thing at. Hop into my old Ford and go home. Who cares what happened to that thing. Not me. There is or was a little card in my pocket given to me by the company saying "When off duty, legally parked. Driver is NOT responsible for equiptment or load." (Unless it's Hazmat etc.)

Some employers have me park the car and take the tractor home with full tanks of fuel bobtail. That was a great privilege to enjoy. Run around 6 states whole weekend who cares about miles. (Probably one of the reasons these companies do not exist anymore...)

That was a different time back then. The current debate raging over the ELD's and the inability to move a semi where necessary and where beneficial to the driver to maintain him or herself ready to keep getting loaded and rolling is a big problem.

Regarding being towed... I'll say this. If I parked somewhere that is not friendly towards a big truck parking, how fast (Or better yet, how much time do I have... to wrap up) before the tow truck gets there to enforce the tow it call. I need to be gone.

Now someone having a big truck towed from a legal parked on the street kind of deal? Eh, I think that might be a problem. I once fed 8 parking meters downtown in Baltimore and someone did call in a tow. The tow man said he could not touch it because the meters have time on them. Lady called the law. They show up on horses and said the same thing. Even though now there is less time on the meters as I worked on breakfast.

I did not park there again. I don't need that hassle. It's a shame, it was a great little foodie place.

 

We got ours from Money Mountain and supplies sufficient to replace it 5 times two people so that's 10 in total. Theoretically a weeks worth. And a truck cat with his own litter box too. That one was a covered box with a charcoal filter over it emptied daily.