Kicked Out By IdleAire???

Thing is: IdleAir got a LOT of their start-up money from Federal Highway Dollars and other taxes you, I and everyone else pays (they ALSO got a good portion from investors....just to be intellectually honest). But to bite the hand that (potentially) feeds it is just bad business.

 

I was talking to a driver this morning in Sparks, NV that told me about a particular IA employee in Barstow, CA. He said this "woman" (who he describes as dark-haired) is married to a Sheriff's Deputy. He says that she goes around the parking lot at night, writing down the Company names, truck numbers and license plate numbers of trucks that IDLE. This is NOT exclusive of trucks parked at IdleAir spots, but ALL trucks in the truck stop. According to the driver; when she gets a "few", she calls the Sheriff's Office and soon Deputies swoop down, wake drivers up and tickets them.

I assume this is happening at the TA in Barstow. I don't know if this is true, after-all I DID hear it from a truck driver, but IF IT IS, this is a horrible way to treat truck drivers. Don't you think?

 

I don't always have that ability to do that. Many times when I leave a shipper/receiver (I pick-up most of the time at the same place I deliver) it is late afternoon and sometimes I don't get my 11hrs in until 1am or later.

 

I guess you haven't been to the TA in Columbia NJ or in Mt Vernon IL lately. Both of them are relatively small, with 1/2 or MORE of their spaces taken by IdleAir, and generally NO parking spaces left after 6pm. Parking is even worse during the late evening or early AM hours. And I have never tried to get a spot "close to the door", but almost always go directly to the back of the truck stop. When the "IdleAir" spaces are "paid" spaces, the NON Idleair spots are a prime commodity and are almost always fill up first.