Ran out of Rest Area

It will often say trucks and RVs or trucks and towing units go this way and cars go that way. Basically any large and/or combination vehicle that won't park in regular car parking spots goes in the pull through spots.

 

Yeah some so called professional drivers really know how to add that ism .. I, SELF & ME... time to find the ignore button... if lost use reverse psychology .. harassment .. police blah blah .. who'd really win if the law was called.. you

 

Yes, it is a rule change that went into effect February, 2012.
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/topics/hos/index.htm
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[TH="class: LeftTableHeadFMCSA, align: center"]FINAL RULE - COMPLIANCE DATE FEBRUARY 27, 2012[/TH]
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[TD="class: MiddleTDFMCSA1"]Includes any time in CMV except sleeper-berth.[/TD]
[TD="class: MiddleTDFMCSA1"]Does not include any time resting in a parked vehicle (also applies to passenger-carrying drivers). In a moving property-carrying CMV, does not include up to 2 hours in passenger seat immediately before or after 8 consecutive hours in sleeper-berth.[/TD]
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You were parked legally. Continue to do so. The heck with some butthead that wants to cry about it. Rest area parking is first come, first served.

 

screw him...

and the next time, grab your tire thumper and jump out and thump him....

 

Sounds to me you are more of a professional driver than the clown you encountered.

 

So much for "overnight" daycab drivers getting hotels for sleeping, then. You all know some of these cheapskate companies are gonna jump all over this as a "cost saving measure", and quit paying for hotels during their drivers rest periods. "After all, the law now says you can sleep in your cab! Just log it as off-duty...." So glad I bounced out of driving.....it just keeps getting worse and worse every year for drivers trying to make a living.

 

Agree with that statement!

 

I have ran into many of these same truckers. I am commercial as well and been told to get my truck out of the truck fueling areas. I have been told to get out of the truck parking areas as well.

My trailer was damaged at a truckstop by someone who thought it should not have been there.

We have a poster on here that thinks it is funny to call road service on the campers and they should not be in here.

There are more than just the one out there.

 

That sucks. Not cool to bang on another guy's vehicle for no good reason in the middle of the night. The guy was clearly a douche.

It has certainly been made clear here, that you were not in the wrong, and parked exactly where you should have been parked, so no need to beat the dead horse any longer. And, as others have said, don't demonize a whole industry of good guys and gals because of one experience with a single rude guy. There are those rude guys in every single industry out there, bar none.