Well, the NO PARKING sign did not have his companies name on it, so he thought it didn't apply to him.
This is kind of an older thread but I figured I’d respond. You gotta kind of blame Walmart for some of this. I shop a lot at Walmart when I’m out on the road and I research which Walmart we can and can’t stay at. There are a plethora of Walmarts that have no truck parking signs. You go online and read the reviews and other truckers are saying “yes there’s no parking signs but they don’t care if you park here just keep it clean“. And at these particular Walmarts if you ask the manager or someone, they’ll typically say “yeah we have the signs up because we don’t want to become a truckstop but you’re OK for the night“ or something like that. So we get confused. every Walmart is a crapshoot as to whether they allow truck parking or not. They might let trucks parked there for three months straight without an incident and then all of a sudden they start booting everyone. It’s just a risk you take. As there becomes less and less Walmarts and soon there probably will be none to where we can even go in, I don’t shop there anymore. I used to spend $200 a week at Walmart. THIS IS MY SUGGESTION FELLOW TRUCKERS! Since there’s 4 million of us nationwide and a lot of us, if not most of us spend the best majority of our grocery money and other things at Walmart, download the app called Insta cart and shop anywhere and have them bring it right to your truck anywhere you’re parked. Pretty much in any town in any city in any area. You don’t even have to worry about getting into the stores anymore. I use it all the time and it’s a game changer. Screw Walmart and they’re anti-truck policies.
This is something I recently dealt with... At the Walmart in Woodburn, OR, a security guard told me (as he was instructing me to move) that the corporate office was hiring companies like his to go around and harass the trucks parked in their store parking lots regardless of what the store manager allowed. He wasn't hired by the local store management, he was hired by the corporate office.
Harass? So you are harassing me if I park my camper in your front yard and you tell me to leave. Gotcha! It's their property (or maybe not, it could be owned by another comapny) and said company doesn't want you to park there as is their right as a property owner. Stop relying on other people's private property. It's not a hard concept to grasp.
Ironically, I deleted my explanation of the term I used, "harass." It was an entire paragraph that I assumed would waste the readers time. However, I should have known someone would pick apart the words I did write, regardless. I'll type the following slowly for you: I was told by the "highest chain of command" at that Walmart location that I was good to go parking there. I was told to leave by someone who was hired by Walmart corporate and NOT the person in charge of that store. I am NOT responsible for the Walmart location nor the corporate office. I am a customer and someone that was given permission to be in the space that I occupied. I then made business decisions based on the arrangement I made with the local store management. I was then threatened to have legal action against me for following the arrangement that was agreed to...causing me to change all aspects of the time I spent in town. How TF is that not harassment? Oh, that's right, because you know everything.
Where do you buy your fuel? Since you don't rely on other people's property, where do you buy your diesel?
if i said it once, i said it a dozen times...when did walmart become a truck stop? it is for all intents and purposes a private property. most properties are owned by a private concerns NOT Walmart, as they only LEASE the area. park there over night, for no reason like making a delivery, in the morning, and get busted. simple. don't wanna respect private property? one gets what is deserved all the time. simple concept.
What does a business inviting people on their property for a specific reason (to buy fuel) have to do with randomly parking on someone's property just because the vehicle fits?
