What does the ideal Truck Storage Lot look like?

Hello all,

My good friend and I are planning on building a longterm truck storage lot where trucks will be stored on monthly contracts although weekly and daily will be available. We will NOT be building a truck-stop like Loves or Flying J. This will be simply for storage. I am hoping I can get some feedback from everyone on here. Plan is to start with one and expand quickly across America once we have a good process in place to replicate this over and over. My father hauls over the road between the mid-west to the west coast currently but has been all over the country. My father-in-law also trucks and at one point was over the road but now hauls aggregate locally. Both have been driving their entire lives and have some great insight but I also wanted to reach out the trucking community for more feedback.

Anyways, I am looking at a piece of land off a major interstate in Texas and working on a list of must haves in order for this lot to be appealing to Truckers. I will attach a pic of the layout. The plan is to have a lot comprised longterm truck storage. With that being said we have come up with the following plans;

• The lot will be properly graded and back filled with suitable soil then 4” or so of crush concrete will be brought in. It will have proper water runoff etc.
• Each slot will be 12’ wide by 75’ long
• Porta-Johns with a hand washing station or some anti-bacterial soap
• Lights all around the lot ensuring good lighting
• Security Cameras
• Dumpsters
• Gate will have 24/7 access
• Concrete jersey barriers or bollards along the fence line so the trucks don’t back up through the fence

I was curious to what others prefer when it comes to payment and gate access? We planned on having it as automated as possible to where you could swipe a QR code sent to your phone similar to boarding a plane, pay through the website we will setup, have a card on file etc. There are many ways to accept payment so which is the most convenient and which is the biggest pain in the ##*

1. That being said what are your thoughts?
2. Are we providing enough or not enough?
3. What’s the best thing I could provide on the lot that would make you not want to park anywhere else?
4. What’s most important to you when choosing a lot?
5. What’s your biggest pet peeve when picking a lot?

Few things to note about the attached layout;

1. In the attached photo you will see green and blue slots. The green shows the lot with 69 trucks parked side by side assuming each slot is 12’ wide by 75’ long. The blue shows what it would look like with 89 trucks. We are likely going to leave some of the blue section always vacant for dumpsters, porta-johns, and an are for a truck to back into and turn around.
2. The distance from bumper to bumper when trucks are parked and facing each other would be about 81-85 ft.
3. The black arrow lines shows a truck pulling into the lot, backing up into the blue vacant area and going out of the yard. I wanted to show this so that there would be a place for a truck to turnaround.
4. The red boxed panhandle with nothing in it is also part of the land but to narrow for truckers.

I appreciate the feedback in advance. My wife and I hold truckers near and dear to our hearts as it’s how our fathers have made a living and provided for us when we were growing up. So I am attempting to tackle a massive problem in the trucking world by providing parking and storage for the real back bone of America….our Truckers!

 

Thanks for the feedback! I should clarify we’re looking to build a truck storage lot where trucks are stored on monthly contracts not a truck stop. Apologize if it came across that way. I’ve changed the title and some of the content to clear that up.

 

Thanks for the feedback! Our plan is to build a truck storage lot where trucks are stored on monthly contracts not a truck stop. I wish I had that kind of money ha ha. I apologize if it came across as a truck stop. I’ve changed the title and some of the content to hopefully clear that up.