Interstate Entrance and Exit Ramps - State Law

common sense dictates every move
and trip planning
if you find yourself regularly not near a TS at 10 pm
you need to look at how your managing your time
and thinking ahead
trucking is a game of chess with your hours , shippers , receivers , dispatch and DOT as the opponent

 

Good reasons not to .
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Police-Truck-illegally-parked-in-fatal-accident-4114588.php
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news...-car-hits-parked-semi-bursts-into-fl-1/nNBJw/

http://www.tbmlaw.com/personal-injury/verdicts-settlements

 

You have to use some common sense, and pay attention to whether or not you can get by away with it.
Common sense meaning, don't park on a posted ramp, or any in Arkansas, or in a dangerous area, or where your vehicle could be a danger to other traffic.

You can 'plan' all the hell you want, but the real world does not have to give a XXXX about your 'plan'. I guess these firm 'planners' are the ones who block the lanes in the truck stops, or rest areas, parking where they not only block other traffic from getting in or out, but block lanes that eventually empty out? (Like in the rest areas when somebody parks lengthwise behind the row of angled trucks. Usually several trucks leave while that guy is sleeping, and it's difficult to impossible for another truck to use the spaces that have opened up.)

The only 'planning' I'm usually able to do, is to start looking for a parking place maybe an hour before I need to park, and take what I can find, but increasingly, you won't find a spot in some areas....and you can't always predict that.


There used to be more 'unofficial, but OK' parking areas, mostly out west, but they're vanishing, also

 

Don't care for exit and on ramps but when driving in the northeast almost impossible to find a parking spot in a truck stop. Plus I don't care for the Disneyland like atmosphere in the truck stop. A driver will back in to a spot and release both brakes; as if the tractor brakes can't hold both truck and trailer. Or someone hauling a refer decides to park right next to my rig. And the refer unit is 15 years old and sound like a B-52

 

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It should be like that eeverywhere

If the gubberment doesn't want us driving the least they can do is provide abundant parking facilities everywhere

 

Don't forget these ######## with APU's that are louder than a motorcycle and the exausht off to the sides blowing back through your vents

They need to find a battery auxiliary power no excuse in this day and age with our modern technology that we need diesel based apu

 

at ten pm your going to find a ts with parking,who you kidding,also your parked on ramp and someone hits you they are not on road,their fault,oh thats right this is the nation of nothings my fault its the other guys,remember hot coffee spilled in lap,put the plame where it belongs on the fool driving on shoulder.

 

Drivers thinking of parking on shoulders should be more concerned about being involved in a fatality if hit rather the who is to blame . If it's 10 p.m. or later there are more fatigued drivers that could drift into you .