Safest places to park

No they steal tires off the mayors car. The only place I will park close to detroit is the detroiter at exit 32 on 75 it costs to park there but well worth it.

 

Depending on store location and local ordinances, it is very common to find WalMarts with specific truck parking. Sam Walton started life as a trucker and always had a soft spot in his heart for drivers. Basic WalMart store plans include 6 Truck/RV parking slots, many times on the side of the building, sometimes in the back. Only when local ordinances forbid or limit truck parking, are they eliminated.
If the store has specific parking for these rigs, you will not come out and find it towed, unless its deemed abandoned.
If you plan or want to leave your truck for an extended period of time, you should speak with the manager. If they can accomdate your request, they will.
In stores that allow truck parking, managers are DIRECTED to accomodate truckers. It is a company policy.
I have a former neighbor that is a Regional Manager for Walmart. He is the one that filled me in on their procedures.

 

As far as what type of places I look for to park overnight I usually try and get to a truck stop. But usually I try and sart driving at about 2 or 3 am so I can get done early becasue its usually easier to find a parking spot earlier. But I have stayed at shippers or recievers also but I only do it after I ask for permission and if they have a bathroom I can go to at any time. But if I cant find anything I look for a walmart!!!

 

If there are cops patrolling the lot move on..

It really is tough to answer that question with generics. After a while you just learn where to stop.

I will add the pilot in gary, In (I80) is one place i'd move on from.. place gave me the creeps

 

Right there are a couple of truck stops when im preplanning that I know im not going to stop at!!! I dont like the gary pilot or loves. I dont like gary period.

 

"The problem isnt the problem, the problem is your reaction to the problem thats the problem" (court ordered anger management class many many years ago)

First thing I would do if I were in the original posters shoes is to ask the question in this forum about how many people have been robbed, had there truck stolen or damaged by thugs.

Asking this question would be better than the question the OP asked because it is assessing the problem or potential problem, if there really is a problem. Assessing the problem or potential for problem and its at least semi-factual severity. And it would answer the following questions inadvertently. Which are the answers the OP really needs, the rest will just come naturally. Is there really a problem? If there is a problem how bad is the problem? How to best cope the the problem.

Seen a bunch of people post responses to this, but in my opinion the original posters question in the text or depth it was intended was only vaguely addressed by them. In this format he or she will not get a satisfactory result.

 

I understand what you are saying, and I am not trying to be argumentative. Lets take the flue as an example. I have not gotten the flue in a few years. And I dont want to get it. Kinda like being jacked in my truck. I could say its because I walk in a circle three times and bark like a dog twice every night before I go to sleep and thats why I havent caught the flue or got jacked in my truck, or I could instead look at raw facts and data. First look at statics as far as the people who do catch it frequently and what they did wrong. First they probably work in schools, or are frequently around large crowds of people. Second I am sure the facts would show that those people prone to it do not get vaccinated. Washing there hands ets. Looking at the people who have gotten the flue frequently, the facts tell me that I should stay away from large crowds and get vaccinated.

In my younger years I spent a fair amount of time in county jails and prison. I am not a very big dude and yet I still managed to get threw all of it without being victomized. Got in a couple of small scraps, busted nose, busted lip, bout the worst of it. A lot of other inmates virtually all of who where bigger than I got hammered on. Many ended up in the variouse infermeries, or sent out to the local emergency room. The bottom line is just keeping your cool, knowing how to act, just doing your time respectfully, in a respectfull fasion, keeping your mouth shut except when its appropiate. Being able to spot the people, and situations you need to lay low from.

People who are victims usually present themselves as victims. A predator can spot these people a mile away. If you are a victim, you could be in the safest truck stop ets. in America, and still a predator would spot you and seek you out, and visa versa. If you aint a victim, know how to hold your own, with a little common sense and knowing what to look out for you could camp out in the roughest neighborhoods and walk away unscathed. I have parked in a lot of the roughest neighborhoods in America, Gary IN is the only place listed I havent been, the rest listed are places I frequent. I aint never had no problems, despite being a small white dude.

My opinion is that most of what I seen above and hear about, when it comes to people being afraid and all these bad places, are the people saying it are just telling tall tales, and a lot are Homo's. Afraid of everything that goes bump in the night, most of them have never been victimized, and those that were could most likely prevented it, if they had a set and knew how to handle themselves. You got to have "a set" and know how to handle yourself, you aint got "a set" you are a born victim, and should have probably just stayed in your mommies basement with your comic book collection rather than go out in the real world.