Parking,

You think you can buy land near a city and pay for it with $6 a truck?

 

...so its not financial , just to help truckers ...lol

 

Biggest problem will be permitting. You will likely spend years and $$$$ to get permits. Dirt lot won't fly in most places. Unless you are rural, probably not using portable toilets/ showers. Have to bring in electric, water sewer. Anywhere that will be easy to permit and build won't be a location where it is needed. Anywhere it is needed won't be easy to build.

 

Exactly, won't get permits from the local authorities. There are areas that need more parking. LOOK for a vacant peice of land close to a truck stop. The going rate is 12 to 20. For a 10 to 12 hour period.

 

Long term is the only way to make any money and it’s got to be rural. You can’t just open a truck lot in an urban area unless you have lots of business experience and cash on hand. Zoning laws are already a step ahead of you.

A good example of what I’m talking about is a business called Atomic Truck Parking in Dallas. That’s actually what you have in mind. They’re in a very rough part of town but I’m willing to bet the owner has had the land for decades and more than likely knows some people at city hall.

Now the Loves in Searcy Arkansas. The truck repair center across the street provides over flow parking for $10 bucks a night. A really nice old guy rides up in a golf cart after you park and collects the money and gives you a receipt. That’s rural and the Wal Mart DC in the area creates a dire need for truck parking. The whole region is a no parking zone due to creative drivers over the years wedging into anywhere they could fit while they waited to go and deliver their junk freight to Wal Mart.

 

Kimball SD is a small, rural town in the middle of nowhere and it took Loves about 4 years to get the needed permits to build their new stop there. It’s not as simple as buying land and doing whatever you want with it. The people that live close aren’t going to want a bunch of trucks parked next to their property.

 

Sorry but others have thought of this and some have done feasibility studies which seem to point to a money loser at anything less than $2 an hour unless there is a huge markup of food and fuel,

 

Went by there the other day, wondered who was building a new truck stop out there.