Personal Vehicle at Truckstop

I would never park my personal vehicle at any truck stop. Especially for several weeks - I left my pickup at the company terminal in Dallas for weeks on end when I was OTR - that was bad enough.

 

In some cases like that, there's a relationship between the company and the truck stop for it to happen.

 

Here in the Denver area, especially in Commerce City, there are several Mexican dirt hauling companies that own huge yards and rent out spaces to drivers, not sure what they charge, but it must be reasonable, drive by every weekend and the yards are full, not uncommon to drive by during the week about 3 am on a weekday morning and see most of the tractor trailers gone, and only the dumps and mixers still sitting parked.

 

My father owned a few rather large strip malls, one of them managed by me back in the day. Long before my interest in trucking.

You let one truck park and the next thing you have 5 trucks.

Next you have owners wrenching in your parking lot and creating damage from oil , hydraulic fluid and fuel spills to the asphalt .

Paying tenants up your butt about the trucks.

Old saying. Give an inch they take a Mile.

 

seen a truck just like this at a truck stop recently. Sitting all by itself in the middle of the day with the front end torn off

 

Acting? When I am on the road, I park my personal vehicle either at home, or at the terminal. You can do what you want, but i don't understand risking a vehicle worth at least a couple thousand dollars in order to save yourself a 20 dollar Uber ride once a month.

 

Multiple big rigs burn at Mississippi truck stop

Fire destroys four semis at truck stop; investigation underway | Lake County News | nwitimes.com

Multiple trucks destroyed in overnight fire at Texas truck stop

I know chances are small , but please , please , please don't come to this forum and ask for help when something like this will going to happen after you will get to you truck after weekend off