This is private property, you can't park there

The rent-a-cop and his supervisor were not the owner. I am proud of the OP for making a stand. I know what it's like to not have a place to park after being chased out by a security guard in a truck stop of all places. Perhaps instead of imposing never ending new regulations the FMCSA should look for ways to address the parking shortage. In my opinion every major and smaller city should have a massive lot on the outskirts that can park at least a thousand trucks.

 

Ahh small correction.....he claims to have tacit approval from the property manager......not the property owner. And by tacit approval, I mean he doesn't claim to actually have approval....just that the property manager condones it because he "knows the property manager and he had no problem with it".....translation: they're probably buddies.

I agree that the OP won the battle but is likely to lose the war if Walmart pushes the issue.

 

Only problem there is, another tax, so you got your ifta... wheres your fpta. Federal. Parking. Tax. Appropriation. Sticker?

 

It doesn't matter if it was the supervisor or store manager, you don't know if there was a change in policy, or the store manager is receiving complaints and passed down the trucks need to go. Now they will beat the OP to the property owner. If it had been me, I would have found another spot, then contacted the property owner and worked it that way, the property owner then would have told the store manager to let their people know the truck can be there. As it is now, the Security Guard and Security Supervisor filled out a report, probably took pictures, and in the report it has the OP being uncooperative. While I feel for the OP, I would have handled it differently. If the OP is on such good terms and knows them all, why didn't he just pick the phone and call them instead of the police?

 

You and me both, brother.

 

They should make a TV show called "truck chasers" and follow around folks wearing made in China security badges driving cars and golf carts with yellow flashing lights that run sleepy truckers out of large uninhabited parking lots at 3 a.m.

 

That's not a reality show, that's murder/mystery!

 

...or they could make a show "who wants to pay for parking lot repairs"...or "who wants to pick up pee jugs, poo bags, and other disgusting things truckers leave behind"

After seeing how many in this industry conduct themselves, I'd be inclined to prohibit truck parking on my property, too...

 

I will agree with you on the fact that some truckers are slobs. It's upsetting that these folks leave a sour taste in property owners/shippers mouths then the rest of us can't park overnight anymore.