Parking Issues

Try the mobil truck stop by the brewery in merrimack...they may charge you a small fee to leave your car there when you are on the road...
Welcome, i am over in Hudson! HOW too!

 

Are you willing to pay small fee???

 

Man- N.H has to be a hard place to find parking. Sooner or later, you'll end up somewhere you aren't supposed to park.

Might be a good idea to keep a couple of rolls of yellow "Crime Scene" tape in the sidebox. Wrap it up and rope it off if you have to leave it in a rest area or some public place. (It may- or may not work).

 

Man, lots of NH folk on this here site!

Most companies want you to have an address and phone if possible of where you are going to be leaving the truck when you come to orientation. Make sure it is secure, gated if possible. You also want to make sure its not too far away from where you live because you will want to check on it periodically while you are at home. Also if you are under a load you need to be extra careful. If you are hauling reefer you need to make sure that it will be ok to run the reefer in the area you are parking. Reefers are loud and most neighborhoods will not like that thing running all night long.

It is well worth it to pay to have a good spot that is secure for when you come home. Parking can range anywhere from $30-100 a month. Where I am there is always a waiting list for parking so we would just pay for the year so we would always have our spot.

 

Some places are hard to find a spot. You can always check boat and RV storage places. I even seen small trucking outfits that rent out spots to OTR drivers.

Always get permission and avoid shopping centers as they are tow happy places.

 

Check at those places mentioned above. Do you know a farmer that might let you park close to the barn? Offer him $50 a month or offer to do a few chores for him. If you find a shop or store that charges you to park pay and then claim the charges on your taxes.

 

One more suggestion- look at repair shops. I park mine at a local trailer repair place when I'm home. The big chains probably wouldn't allow it, but a small local shop with some extra space on their lot might.

 

Lol, now that you mention that. I had a deal setup with a shop in IL to park. The second time I come back in, the place was burnt to the ground. I had to find a new place.

 

The one I park at had a fire a couple years ago. They rebuilt, though. The one that burned was such an old building, anyway, they just let it sit there, and put up a new steel building on a different spot. Still room for me to park in the side lot