Parking at home - Thoughts/comments needed

My parents have lived on the same dead end road for 35 years and about 8 years ago a new subdivision was put in up the road from them (toward the open end of the road). There are 4 truck driving families including ours that have all been on the street and parking their trucks at home for 20+ years and all of a sudden once these houses went in up came a sign at the beginning of the road saying "No parking beyond this sign for all commercial vehicles over 6 ft. tall" or something like that. Somehow one evening the sign just up and was pulled from the ground... darndest thing ever. Never been hassled once.

 

That's why is dispise subdivisions, neighbors, HOA's, municipal cop's that have TJ Hooker posters on the wall and watch Hill Street Blues like it's porn. Dam somebody telling me what I can and can't have on my own property. I won't hear it. Buy acreage in the country and you get to shoot trespassers. Sometimes twice.

 

I had this same issue with my old home. The town could not write me a ticket either, but after 3 confrontations with them, they just called the local DOT officer and he glady came and wrote me a ticket 4 times. Each time he would knock on the door and ask "Can i speak with you outside, I need to do a level 1 inspection" and I would politely reply "I am off duty and this is private propery, just put the ticket on the window" and I would close the door. After the 4th ticket (which I paid, $30) he quit coming to my house as it was just a hassle and he told me the last time he was there that he was tired of the town calling him.

Fast forward 5 years and now I live out in the county with 9 acres, a shop big enough to park the truck/trailer and also a wash bay. Plus it's heated and A/C...... point of the story is, find a better place LOL.... seriously tho, it's not the fact that you live on a dead-end street, it's that you have to drive down the entire street, past everyone's houses to get to yours. If you lived in the 1st house, then I bet it wouldn't be a problem at all, but you drive by all the retarded kids house's first and they don't like you LOL!!!

 

My city allows parking a CMV at a home-based office as long as it's entirely off the street. When we bought this house 12 yrs ago, one of the selling points was being one of very few in the community without an HOA, but with neighbors that kept their homes looking nice. When we first bought the truck it got parked here overnight one time right after we bought it. We had a few minor things to tend to and just had the signage done up the street before going to get the trailer. We had not yet found a good place to park elsewhere, expecting to be pretty much OTR immediately.

To tell the truth, it's all about surroundings. That class 8 semi appears a hell of a lot larger and louder when in a residential driveway versus a terminal yard. I had to see it to believe it. When we cranked it up to leave at 7am the next morning, I'm sure a dozen neighbors could feel their walls vibrating with that truck idling in our driveway. And that's a FL Century with single exhaust and a stock brand-new muffler. I decided then and there that I would not subject my neighbors to that again. Well except for that one that lets his dog poop in my yard LOL. After worrying about the security and safety of "free" parking options in the area, I found a fairly busy yard that rented me parking inside a locked gate with camera coverage. It's been well worth the cost.

Point is, class 8 trucks don't belong in a tight residential neighborhood unless the surroundings are spread out enough that the truck isn't a total nuisance to everyone around. Or like some posted, half their neighbors are parking trucks in their driveways too.

Wildcat74: My folks live in a subdivision about like the one yours do. They live in the old part with 1.5 acre lots and lots of separate garages and commercial equipment here and there. Out front is the secondary entrance to the new part, about a 1/4 mile in, with all their prohibited signs and whatnot posted to keep out the riffraff LOL.

 

Because I have only 2 days off and need that time to do other things and I am also on my 34 reset. plus I should not have to deal with that crap while I am at home. If he wants to do the inspection he can just wait for me to leave the house and pull me over.

The main reason I was not compliant was I started out like you, my house was #4 in the subdivision.... well, it wasn't plotted as a subdivision at the time. Everyone had to have 2 acre lots and there were only going to be 15 houses. Well, plans changed and the developer sold out the lots and made them 1/2 acre lots and now there are 115 houses in there with the new section they added!! I wasn't happy and hence why I moved.

 

Where we reside,

it's all about how the property is zoned.

We have no problems parking anything we want, as far as tractor trailers.

 

Do you run your bizz out of your house? Do you live in a residental only area, or is it mixed use? You are allowed upto 1 mile in most states off the national network, for food, fuel, terminals, pick up or deliver... I had trouble with that when I owned my truck. I had 10 acres with frontage on a US hwy. My driveway was off a town street that ran up the side of my property. The local police tried to give me grief about taking my truck into a residental area on a wieght limited road. I explained that my house was my base of operation, as it was, and that they could not block my access. He wrote me a ticket, and I went to court. My property was zoned agricultural, and there was nothing that they could do to deny my access. The judge agreed and that was that. Do some digging, is there a beauty shop or some other "home bizz" in the neighborhood? If there is I would fight. Just my .02.

 

Wacth out the local police , they like towing big rigs off prvt parking lots