Buckeye buddies....hear of THIS?!?

SMH. What else can you do? So many issues in this story. But it's what we as a group have to deal with. They'd really be in for a rude awakening if we could mange to get 50% of the nation's trucks to park for a week. They'd see just what we do and what happens when we don't continue to do it.

So. What's the broader, realistic solution?

 

Transient truckers?

 

Home Depot on W117th up here in C-Town is like a mini truck stop they don't even try to kick them out they have pretty much taken over the entire section of parking lot. Me personally I don't care my self.

Actually there a quite a few places up here in Cleveland self storage places that have truck parking not for like staying over night, but for like parking if your in town and home.

Hell Pizza Hut in my town before it was bull dozed down there was a flatbedder who parked his truck in there lot. Years ago 1999 we had a vacant lot not very far from my house and there was someone with a black Kenworth W900 real pretty truck and an Xtra dry van lease trailer who used to park on that lot. I haven't seen that truck in years it's gone now, but it was goofy because the people using these lots are not parking over night there people who live in town and are home and that black Kenworth stayed parked for a long time and then it moved cross town to another shopping center lot before disappearing.

Usually though around here there are self storage places and yards in the industrial parts of town that have some kind of accommodations.

 

The ATA needs to run some sort of public information campaign directed to key market mayors and governors. This issue of lack of parking (both long term and short term) is not going away and is only going to get worse as they make more and more areas off limits.

For many decades we've had to listen to the various nature groups say mankind has to stop developing (removing) and encroaching on lands that wildlife need. So wildlife are more important then trucks. That's good to know and makes me feel so much better.

 

You know, the ones that travel the country to work.... Oh wait, that's every OTR driver, ever.

 

must mean job hoppers.......?

 

Those places can typically only accommodate tractors only. No trailers, so the problem still exists. And during the winters, they are full of travel trailers and RV's. I know because I've been there done that looking for parking. My tractor is parked at a self-store place right now, in fact but there was barely room among all the other stuff parked outside.

"Drop yards" and dedicated truck parking lots are often available in major metro areas, but they are few in numbers and typically full to the gills.

 

Cassady and Agler is really close to Columbus Airport
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