Parking in rest areas and welcome centers?

indiana as some good ones. but they dont like ya to spend the night there.. had one DOT guy come in to the one i was on, on I65.. wilcott i think it was.. he kicked us out at about 3 in the morn.. so the 3 drivers and i just went down the the next one and camped there..

 

I've stayed there many times. Never been bothered. Must be a reason they bother you.
I prefer rest areas over TS most of the time...unless I need to do laundry, shower or possibly have a meal. (I eat out of my cooler most of the time)
But until three years ago, I had a sweet gig for 20 years...private company rig...San Diego to Seattle and back every week..and weekends off!
Getting back to this OTR thing is killing me!

 

Well hell, I've only gone into that one once and that was enough. I got better places I can park when I'm in that area. Another driver with this company told me he'd been soliceted in the same rest area. I'll say one thing though, when I first got into this truck, ho's of a somewhat female resemblance, would literally jump out of victims trucks to come bother me when I pulled into certain truckstops. I think the driver I replaced might have been the lizard king. They'd get real dissapointed when they saw the same truck with a different driver. We don't have but two or three red white and blue centurys on the road and they look fairly distinct.

 

what i also do, if i stop at a TS,if i can.. ill park as far away as i can.. usually in the back corner and go in nose first. so this way.. theres a less of a risk of some tired trucker takin mirrors off at 1 am.. i usually nose in. so if someone hits my truck, its usually the trailer.. which is alot more rigid then the truck.. LOL long stories there.. about my luck and truckers parking on it.. hhahahaahah

 

Another night was on I-20 entering TX. It was maybe 2:30 am Sunday so I thought would find a nice mpt spot at the Welcome Center... wishful thinking... Trucks were parked anywhere and everywhere. It was a big mess, never seen anything like that. They did not park on the spots marked on the ground, no. They were all over the place, on top of each other, sideways, some facing each other.... even blocking the passage. I had to go over the curb and the grass to be able to leave.... I imagine the trucks in the middle of that mess would not be able to leave.
A few nights before that, I felt sorry for a driver at another rest area when the trooper knocked at his door at mid-night and told him (and others) they all had to leave cause they were parked in the wrong place....

But after seing that mess at the welcome center, I almost called the trooper to come straighten that up...

 

Oh, a couple of days ago, load planner asked me where I was parked. I was on the welcome center of I-44 MO (border with OK). She said they were trying to find the driver who was parked in that vicinity (exit 26) at an adult store... We pull Wal-mart trailers. Someone saw it and called Wal-mart... So Wal-mart wants the driver to be removed from that account.

I told my load planner that some times I thought about parking at those places, specially when I am running almost out of hrs and can't find a safe place to park and these places offer a lot of parking space. But she said that is a no-no for Covenant and Wal-mart.

Will start adding Wal-mart supercenters to my list of places to park at night.

 

its sad.. im at the flying j in london ont.. i got here at about 8:30 pm.. the lot was half full.. and ERVERYONE JUST HAD TO PARK AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to the store.. like.. wtf.. they started to park beside the scale.. enterance.. making their own spots..etc.. if i didnt have a clock i woulda thought it was 11 pm.. but here i am, all alone in the back row with 5 other trucks.. (havnt looked outside for afew hours.. )

 

That's stupid. First of all, walmart sells DVDs that are borderline porno. I bought one a while back, called "The Babysitters"...I won't get into specifics but if the camera angles were just a little different, zoom a little different, the movie wouldnt just be in a porn store, it would be *illegal*...

And walmart wont sell liqour because omg we're religious, but it's ok to sell beer. Whats the difference? I could see wine, because Jesus drank that himself, so clearly thats ok. I kind of think they didn't have beer back then.

Second, so they'd rather have a driver get into a wreck? Park on the shoulder? Log violation?

It's sad that the religious have people brainwashed so bad that people would rather get into an accident than park at an adult store.

And if people are so offended by an adult store why are they looking at it?

 

Thats funny, i was at the Petro on I70 in IL. Tuesday night, i parked between the lines out in the back lot away from everyone. When i came back out to my truck at 3:00 p.m. to go to sleep, 2 trucks were parked over the line on both sides of me, screwing the whole row up. Later that night, i hear a thumping noise, i thought someone was breaking into my truck. So i grabed my knife, then looked out the window and noone was there. and then i looked at my mirror and it was bent in. No damage, someone tried to fit into the spot that the jakepie next to me blocked, then took off draging his trailer on my mirror. Never even seen the truck.