"No overnight truck parking" What if you are a bobtail? or a garbage truck?

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  1. White Dog

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    Isn't Bentonvile, AR. home of the corporate offices for Wal-Mart? LOL! No truck parking at the store nearest the corporate offices?!?
     
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    Why would you park a garbage truck in a walmart parking lot overnight?
     
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    A bobtail is not any more special then a semi,no overnight trk parking means ALL TRUCKS and a bobtail is a truck..If Walmart let bobtails park there then 18wheelers are going to think they can do the same thing.Some places does not want their lot to be used as a truckstop.If you see that sign then respect it.There are many places to park bobtails other then Walmarts.
     
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    And there are Walmarts that have the sign posted and it still looks like a truckstop in there. The one's in Katy and Sealy Tx come to mind. That's why I always check to make sure.
     
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    I know it some can't read.I on the other hand take those signs seriously because I don't wanna get woke up in the middle of the night by an officer with a ticket or by Walmart employees,
     
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    Okay but define "trucks"
    could be a garbage truck, a pick up truck also then or how about a Cement mixer truck? lol

    Does that mean I can't park a Ford F-150 pick up "truck" overnight either?
     
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    You're silly,lol.Walmart means anyone in the trucking industry.If I had a pickup and wanted to sleep it certainly would'nt be in the pick up.
     
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    never parked at a wallyworld.

    I stop in shopping centers with a Lowes or Home depot. they are usually big and have a food store.

    I don't sleep there either. been rousted too many times.
     
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    well now you might have a sexy sleeper in the back of that pick-up truck

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    If you park where trucks tend to park or near a no overnight parking sign then Walmart could mean you as well.But if you park where the 4wheelers park,they won't even give your pick up a second look,Walmart will just think you're shopping.Nice looken pick up by the way.