Dispute over booting a truck at Walmart lands parking enforcer in jail for assault

The majority of Walmarts in Georgia really suck....

 

So the lesson here is that truck drivers aren't welcome as customers or as parkers. Got it. There's nothing at Walmart we need at home that can't be obtained elsewhere - same applies on the road for my husband.

 

Many Walmart's don't even allow Walmart trucks to park there unless they're waiting in line for dock space.
Booting trucks around the Atlanta area has been a problem for decades. Some politicians are getting a cut of the fines, otherwise the practice would have ended years ago.
If I was the truck driver, would have laid down and demanded an ambulance, then called a personal injury lawyer.

 

Sad as WM used to boast about being an alternative safe haven for truckers.

 

Seriously what if the truck driver was actually a Walmart customer i mean surely folks go shopping in there RV's and travel trailers so why can't a Truck driver do the same? Reminds me of the Flying J at Jackson MS security would walk through the drivers lounge checking drivers licenses to make sure no homeless people were in there using the facilities.

 

You know, I was watching some YouTube videos of various abandoned sites around the country and there are just a ton of empty shopping malls all over the nation. With huge, empty parking lots.

Why aren't some of those being set up as truck parking in some places? I mean sure, some aren't going to reasonable to access for big rigs, but many would be and they are just lurking out there. No facilities, but out of traffic at least.

 

If you pay attention that parking enforcement individual does not work for Walmart. At the majority of North Ga stores city ordinances and zoning force us to allow for companies to boot illegally parked vehicles.

99% of the lots up there have city ordinances against truck parking except for delivery.


Look folks Walmart only bans folks by their choice when it costs the store manager more to clean up after the trucks than they buy.

Kimball,Tn spends a fortune repaving every couple years, but they see the revenue fro. All those trucks according to management. Conversely Old Fort in Murfreesboro restricts parking to two hours. Because they were tired of the complaints from the Medical Office and Apartments about people urinating and defecating in the shrubs were they used to let them park.

 

Truck parking at Walmart is a privilege, not a right. Many of the parking lots at their new stores are being strategically designed to deter tractor trailers.

I know I'm a nuisance, but it saves me a lot of money and I appreciate them letting me run in for 30 or so minutes.

I have moved trailers out of the dock for Walmart managers and even let one suck some fuel out of my tank for his holiday turkey reefer.

 

Be careful parking in abandoned strip malls or shopping malls. Tow trucks cruise those places looking for big rigs to tow. Tow companies will cover or remove the "No Truck Parking" signs.