The city council in Midland, Texas has passed an ordinance that will allow officers to fine truckers up to $500 for parking in parking lots on commercial properties. According to one councilman, the sight of trucks parked in empty lots is “just completely disgusting.”
On Tuesday, August 14th, City Councilman J. Ross Lacy went on a ride along with the Midland Police Department. He invited a local news crew to join him. Lacy took them on a tour of local areas where commercial trucks were parked on commercial property.
It’s already illegal for trucks to park on both commercial and residential properties within Midland city limits. But MPD can only currently issue tickets for trucks parking in residential areas. There’s no ordinance allowing them to do so in commercial areas.
When the group arrived at a Walmart lot there were seven or more big rigs parked there.
“It’s just completely disgusting,” said Lacy according to Your Basin. “Obviously, its posted, but we don’t have an ordinance where we can go and enforce it with the police department.”
Midland is an oil and gas boomtown. And while the jobs have brought a huge influx of money to the city, it’s also brought along lots of heavy trucks to haul loads to and from the fields.
“Not only are they tearing up our infrastructure but it’s an eyesore for the citizens of our great city,” said Lacy.
To solve the issue, the city council implemented an ordinance that will allow truckers to be issued $500 fines or even have their trucks impounded if they park in a commercial area within city limits that has “No Truck Parking” signs.
The ordinance will go into effect on October 1st. From now until then, Councilman Lacy says the city plans to tell as many property owners as possible about putting up signs.
shogun says
Councilman Prick should start using his personal vehicle and drive to the warehouses for his goods from here on out. I wonder if he just happens to own or plans to open a truck parking lot where you pay to park.
rigby says
Love your comment. LMAO
Jon says
Yup….sounds like step 1…. of several more. What’s disgusting?
Just the sight of a truck? & this is in Texas, about the truck friendliest state u’d find….I’ve been to Midland….piles of rusted junk right out in the open on the 20….for miles & mlles, coming & going, oil rigs, oil tanks…ain’t nothin charming about Midland, grubby greasy town. Demonizing truckers, didn’t figure that would fly in Texas
Steve says
Kind of surprised at this guys comments. Unless he’s some kind d of urban transplant he should be used to trucks in the Midland area
Greg "Sidewiner" says
I agree….
Probally a cityidot, ppl want gas and food and clothes etc ..
Thank a Trucker in today world
I just dont get how someone can say oh its disgusting when obviously we the truck driver work our fingers to the bone
Where tired and i myself have slept on that Walfart parking lot
(Lol) …and was greatful cause tooooooo many trucks in truck stops.. Midland TX truck stop are filled with oil field trucks fill up what three or four truck stops Loves Pilot etc and those guys all feel intitled to park so us who load from laredro or Houston to bring loads out have no where to park with out arguing with some beat up tanker who feels
Its there parking spot…
30 yr of driving past ten been a nightmare..
00Stephen says
“I’ve been to Midland….piles of rusted junk right out in the open on the 20”
That’s exactly what I thought when I read the article. I’ve driven through Midland 2015/2016 and thought the entire area was an ugly eyesore for the same reasons you mentioned. Along with dirt/dust. It looked (and felt) *dirty*.
James White-Young says
Anything flys in Texas. It’s a wasteland. What more would you expect.
William Richardson says
THAT’S PLUM STUPID THAT TRUCK PARK IN LOTS ARE Disgusting what
William Richardson says
OTHER CARS AND TRUCKS SHOULD BE BAN TOO IF IT IS THAT DISGUSTING
Teri says
What does any one expect ,when the trucker going and coming ,silly man !! They get tired too ,just making a descent living and all you and your town do is complain . Trucker are working not joy riding like you did ,what would happen if they stop driving so you can have a great town ,to me it still be greasy .
Carol says
Exactly! My blood is boiling! Do they think we are out here on a joy ride. Well, probably so, since it’s becoming illegal to drive a commercisl truck anymore.
Lee says
A few truck drivers has ruined it all for the rest. Trash throwed out on the ground and left. Can’t blame the citizens.
SnowWalker says
I agree with the comment of a few truckers screw it up for the entire industry. I now live in a small town where there is no real area for a truck & trailer to park. The city has allowed Wal Mart to let the truckers “night” park on their parking lot. The city even placed a piss bottle can so the truckers could dump their bottles then rinse them out. There is a porta toilet and a small garbage dumpster on the lot for the truckers. It didn’t work. Every morning there are a half dozen full piss bottles, along with garbage bags, laying on the parking lot. WalMart ended up posting a No Over Night Truck Parking on their parking lot.
D.D. says
I drove for 5 years. After a year off, I am going back out soon.
As for pee bottles my system was simple, and I even use it at home.
Get a one-gallon water bottle and a big bottle of generic listerine mint mouth wash. Usually first thing in A.M. I’d simply walk to a grassy area and empty it, then put maybe 3 tablespoons of the mouthwash in the bottle and shake it good. There will never be a urine smell and you can use the bottle indefinitely.
I use this at home, such that, If I need to pee 2 or 3 times in a night, it saves me flushing away 6-9 gallons of water just to get rid of a few ounces of urine.
Any lowlife who simply disgards a bottle of urine in a public place should be beaten.
Jaebro says
Sam Walton had said “truck drivers would be allowed to park to take there break at his stores. ” (Walmart, Sam’s Club)
“Without Truck Drivers, I wouldn’t be in business.”
Unfortunately, it’s the inconsiderate lazy drivers, who throw their trash out the window before they leave we’ve all seen this.
Because of a few, we all have to suffer.
Truck Parking has become a problem, no forward planning for the developing area’s that have seen the increase of delivery, and pick of freight by the local area’s these industries are in.
More delays, loss of time for drivers, that carriers are struggling to keep up with the demand for new hirers.
R Barnby says
You hit the nail on the head there. No reason to throw your trash out in any situation. Too many trashy people out there that have no pride in our country or themselves. Put your trash where it belongs.
Teri says
Exactly, I am a trucker ,and I take time to collect my trash ,and throw it at truck stops where it’s loaded with trash cans,I guess the people that throw trash on streets and parking areas were never taught as they grew up ,because learning starts at home not at work .
Sugarbear says
You forgot gallons of urine left on parking lots. I know 🤢
Aaron Kleinert says
Walk where the cars park, is it clean. No people are people no matter what they drive. Not all people who have RVs are rich and goody 2 shoes and a person in a old pickup truck is not a drunk redneck. Quit putting stereotypes on people and we might get somewhere in this country
Big Booblyboo says
I just love the way truck drivers continue to blame other truck drivers for all the trash thrown on the ground. It’s like nobody else does it. If you believe it’s only truckers throwing out trash then you are sorely mistaken. Nobody is perfect everybody throws out trash. It’s just easy and convenient to blame a truck driver. How many times have you driven through a residential area and seen trash on the ground? So stop blaming truckers only. By the way, no where in this comment did I mention piss bottles till this point. Who says only truck drivers use piss bottles? When anybody can prove only truck drivers throw out trash and piss bottles then I will believe it.
Mr. Curmudgeon says
Anyone ever notice that in most truck stops the strength of the urine smell is directly proportional to the distance from the building? It’s not just the piss bottles, it’s truck drivers that believe the world (and anyone’s property) is their personal urinal.
Kim says
You don’t get it, these are mainly oil field trucks. They run local and should be parked on the company that hired them property.
STACY says
I would like to say with the new ELD laws; a lot of these drivers can not make it back to the “YARD” of who hired them. Dispatch uses every drive-able hour to haul product. Leaving the driver sometimes on the sides of the roadways for there entire breaks of 10 hours. We struggle to make it to a safe place for the public and ourselves. So in all reality it is partially the public’s fault as well.(for pushing for the new ELD {eletronic logging device) laws . Maybe the public should be talking to the companies about letting drivers have time to make it back to the “yards” rather than using whatever property we feel safe enough to sleep in when we have NO DRIVE TIME LEFT to get to the yard. WHY PUNISH THE DRIVER FOR A MUCH BIGGER PROBLEM THAN THEM?
Donald Mickunas says
The real culprits are the companies themselves. They hire drivers, under pay them, then push them for every hour available without any real consideration to the safety and well being of the driver and the truck. Pushing so hard resulting in drivers either parking wherever or driving illegal to get to a safe place to park is both illegal and immoral.
Having said all this, there remains the shortage of appropriate parking for trucks and the disgusting habits of some drivers.
Jim says
You ever heard of personal conveyance?
Henry says
There are lots of companies that dont give drivers the option of personal conveyance.
Big Booblyboo says
@stacy
Can’t blame ELDs for this. The driver is in charge of that truck. The driver knows he/she has to stop at some point so it’s up to the driver. If the driver lets the company force them into a bad situation, oh well. The driver says when that truck moves and stops. If the company fires them for being safe that’s a bad company to work for so move on.
Hergie says
I agree, but a change in the safe haven rule would be better, or just fines for the city for making drivers violating the rules
Jeremy Davis says
Unfortunately sometimes even they need to shop or eat or have a change of pace. God forbid we go back to the day of minding our own business if someone breaks the law then take care of that person. Instead let make wide spread laws that affect the innocent and law abiding individuals just trying to buy something at a store or take a break.
Sugarbear says
No there owner operators that are not allowed to park at there casa.
Kathleen says
I second that motion!!!
Trish Scott says
But without trucks even the warehouses would be empty.
Don’t like trucks, stop buying stuff.
Teri says
WALMART, HEB, DILLARDS, GAS PUMPS , SAFEWAY, CARS CARRIERS ,WOW WHAT WOULD PEOPLE DO ? WITHOUT THE TRUCKER ,ALL OF US INCLUDING MYSELF WOULDN’T HAVE NOTHING .THAT BE SAD !!
Doug says
Yep, catch-22. He can eat frack sand, with a glass of crude.
shogun says
Lol, awesome.
Michael A Tyson says
What we truckers have to do is start voting. You can tell as much as you want but if you don’t vote your voice is very quiet.
Chuck McDaniel says
10/4 on the voting. We truck drivers are despised by the majority of the public. It’s pathetic. I’ve been driving Tractor Trailers since March 1985. The High Way Cops hate us just as much as civilians. You will never observe me blocking Culprits so the Cops Chasing can catch and arrest. I will pull over out of the Culprits path. We’re not joy riding out here and there. We are on our Jobs. Providing a needed service. Anyone else who looks at it any different is an Jack Ass, including females. It’s Sad and Regretful we in the Transportation Industry can’t STRIKE! as a whole so we can get the respect we deserve. Walmart allows Big Rigs to park on their lot at Night. That’s private property. Municipals and States can’t dictate who can park on Private Property.
That guy claiming a disgust visually, has not considered where everything he eats, drinks,wears, was delivered by Ground Transport, to make is accessible for he and others.
Jeremy Davis says
What we need is an actual organization to protect our interests. Lock down the lanes from people moving freight via pickup truck and start actually giving a care about each other as professionals. All I see anymore is kids watching Netflix while driving a load down a mountain with there foot on the smoking fading brakes
t.m.h. says
…or he’s getting kickbacks from the coppers.
I’m sure that it happens in small towns all over the place. I was put out of service once for a log violation (not logging “on-duty” for a DOT inspection) and towed by a towing company ($400.00) that the cop seemed to have on speed-dial. Then the towing guy was talking on a hand-held all the way back to the yard. I felt that the tow company and the cops were in it together, because a fine for using hand-helds is way worse than what I got hit for.
Rick says
This LACY needs go find a parking spot after 7pm anywhere, not just there. THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY MAKE ME SICK AND WOULD LOVE TO HAVE HIM OR HER WIPED OUT BY A TRUCK LOOKING FOR SOMEWHERE TO PARK. THIS INDUSTRY IS SO FAR GONE AND THEY WANT 18 YEAR OLDS TO START DRIVING????? MOST OF THESE JOKERS DRING NOW HAVE THE MENTALITY OF 10 YEAR OLDS. IF THE PIGS THAT THROW THEIR SHIT ALL OVER THE PLACE AND STAND AND PISS OFF THE SIDE OF ES WE NTHEIR TRUCKS WOULD CLEAN THEIR ACTS UP MAYBE THEY WOULD PUT SOME PARKING IN PLACES WE NEED IT.
scott says
Easy Rick. Society does not owe us parking. You can’t blame the councilman or the town for not wanting bottles or urine and trash strewn about. The drivers that do that are the ones that you should be directing your anger toward.
Jon Malis says
Actually society does owe us parking. When laws are put in place limiting the time that you are allowed to be on the road and forcing you to park then parking should be provided. Also infrastructure should be modified to serve the needs of citizens. Providing parking for the increased number of trucks on the road qualifies as public need. When population increases and roads are widened it’s the same concept.
Chuck McDaniel says
Absolutely!
Correct. The States and Federal Government owe Truck Drivers some Road Side Accomodations.
00Stephen says
Then the councilman can use city dollars, collected from tax coffers that profit from the goods shipped to/from Midland to set up large, expansive areas of truck parking with enough lavatory facilities to accommodate the traffic.
He can introduce ordinance that fines local shippers/receivers should they delay trucks more than x number of hours and leave drivers in an H.O.S. bind.
He can compound the existing problems, or be part of a solution that addresses every party’s concerns. His choice.
James L says
No…they need to start blaming the drivers instead of the whole industry. If one of your kids do something wrong, do you blame all of them and punish all of them?
David S. McQueen says
The law requires truckers to take a break, but the locals deny truckers parking space. It seems that the conflict is with the locals, not with the truckers. Maybe the locals could pony up the money to build some truck stops. Maybe those few truckers who throw their trash and bottles out the window would grow up.
Jeremy Davis says
I think your correct to a point but I’d rather make him go for a ride for “2-3″ weeks and see how it is to be separated from life and be treated like an animal. Sure we have a bathroom but you ,”drivers” use the out house at the back of the lot behind the garbage can
jeromy C beman says
Just stop going there that what I did..
Billy says
It’s the insurance companies that have your goverment regulate the trucking industry, so your tired of state and local government, and the public, Well stop whining cause you letting them do it, you drivers are the one holding the ball, what’s the problem, put it in play, crying about it is not gonna solve them problem, no gas, empty store shelves, etc.etc.You know what I’m saying, they’ll change their tune real fast, Nation Wide Shut Down, till they come begging us, Trucks control everything, which means Drivers ARE THE BOSS
Jack says
Interesting. Concerned with trucks parked at Walmart, but what about the dangers of I-20 where it felt like someone died everyday because of careless driving. Also, where does he suggest truckers park? I lived there and I can say there is no reason to be midland or odessa outside of oil. Quick tip shut up because your either politicing hard or completely oblivious to your surroundings.
RD says
Well brother, since you live there, why don’t you do us all a favor and start a local movement to get this nitwit gone and get the laws changed?
Sherrie says
You want truckers to deliver your goods, but you don’t want to see them doing it! Right! What do you want them to do when there isn’t enough parking for truckers as it is and they now have another government mandate, the ELD, that forces them to rush, rush, rush! Hope they stop delivering to you so you can get a taste of what it is like to be without truckers and their trucks.
Jake says
I agree.
Chuck McDaniel says
I also agree!
Linda Mansfield says
Amen. I would boycott that town. Midland won’t be an oil and gas boomtown for long if you truckers stop delivering. I just don’t get it..I would think truckers we’re the link to milk and honey literally but if dumb asses like Midland council idiot and time restraints don’t stop you the insurance premiums will. Don’t people realize we would all be naked, starving, living in a box if there were no truckers and this fool should have those oil and gas rigs hauling that heavy piping to the fields obtain a bond to pay for the damage they do to roads. Midland needs to be blacklisted from the trucker route. I hate ignorant people
Homeless in a wet box says
Bull crap. Even those boxes come in trucks. The nation would be homeless after the first rain.
Jeff says
AMEN!!!! STOP DELIVERING TO THE PRICK!!!
Lee says
It’s the few trashy truck drivers among us that has brought this on so they are the pricks
Glenn says
Few trashy truck drivers? That’s the understatement of the year. Its an epidemic of filthy, pathetic, nasty derelicts out here anymore. Seriously. Its no wonder we’re treated like pond scum. And those ‘disgusting’ trashy losers that this article applies to sure as hell aren’t reading these trucking articles online or in print.
Just this AM I pulled into the pumps at the Petro exit 240 off I-55 in Illinois at 3am & there sat at the pump a gal jug with the top off full of piss. Seriously? This industry has lowered the hiring standards to an all time low these fly-by-night companies will throw any nasty puke wearing a week old stained t-shirt with holes in it & filthy stained sweat pants in a truck as long as he/she has a CDL. Having a smidgen of class or professionalism is optional.
It’s no wonder the public laughs at us & doesn’t give us any respect. We’re our own worst enemy & I don’t see it getting any better any time soon & why in 44 days I’m climbing out of the truck & making a career change & getting out of this industry.
scott says
Agreed Glenn and congratulations on getting out. I’m about 3 months behind you myself.
One point, it’s not just the fly-by-night companies with trashy drivers. I see them in the mega-carrier trucks too.
00Stephen says
The quality of drivers?? Nonsense. Repeal the FLSA Motor Carrier Exemption of 1934 and everything else will fall into place. It’s tough to demand a higher caliber of professionalism when cpm*miles/hours-at-work yields $12-$20/hour.
People can work at Walmart or fast food joints for similar pay and be home every night, have a social life, not have to pay/forfeit $3-7k for CDL “school”, and not worry about pissing in a cup or hair trims testing for a substance increasingly accepted and legalized.
Of course, raising the pay to 21st century standards means everyone else will not get to enjoy cost-of-living standards subsidized by exploiting those currently castigated as “degenerates” and “ne’er-do-wells”.
Gentry Newsom says
Everyone of these sleeper otr trucks should have a osha approved toilet in them. Also truckers are not the only culprits throwing puss bottles out I’ve seen lots of 4 wheelers tossing there waste out on the shoulder and around fuel stations. I will agree we need to teach the green horns some class..if you see or hear a disrespectful punk turn his ads in to his/her company or the next chicken coup there are ways to eradicate the problem people be it unsafe driving or just causing problems anywhere we work.
Lee says
The trucking industry was deregulated to insure “cheap ” movement of goods, to stop truckers from unionizing, and to put most the power into the hands of the shippers, mega carriers and government. While I do not personally trash areas where I park, I no longer feel as if trucking is a professional career. When you destroy a profession and bring it down to the lowest common denominator, this is what you get. I believe you are blaming the wrong people. If trucking was not in the state it is in ,most truckers would take more pride in the job, or would not have become truckers to begin with.
LadyLuvsTrucking says
My thoughts exactly! Sounds like Midland needs to NOT get Deliveries for a while….. till the good citizens feel their councildummys stupidity! Nothing is worse than ONE spoiling it for ALL! That does seem to be a problem, in more ways than 1 in Midland!
Lee says
Blame the trashy truck drivers. The ones that throw their crap on the ground and leave
Robert says
Don’t blame them they just want us to see what a third world country looks like you privledged ungrateful American
Kathleen says
Lol!!
Russell A Carter says
Words right out of my mouth Sherrie!
scott says
It’s not the goods that they don’t want delivered, it is the filth that comes with it, and who can blame them? Face it, there are, unfortunately, a lot of very inconsiderate drivers out here. I see it every day and it really needs to stop.
Mario says
America hypocrisy they need the trucks but don’t want them parked on the city, they need immigrants to do the jobs Americans don’t want to do but they don’t want immigrants buying groceries or walking on streets.
Kathleen says
For the genius generation of computer nerds that are trying to replace human drivers with artificial intelligent robots that can drive an 80,000. GWV (Hey guy’s maybe they can put a button on our dashboard that when activated it will make our Semi Trucks invisible so they couldn’t see us). Just kidding but it’s obvious that there is a great need for more truck stops!!
D.D. says
AMEN!
CDub says
That makes sense… ban the trucks hauling your oil and gas, or any product for that matter, from parking in your town. What would be a real eye sore is empty shelves and empty stores.
jeromy C beman says
Stop dropping loads there..that’s what I did..thay Winn and cry. If ever one stop going there..bad not find spot now fine..thay wonder why driver shortage..let’s see what thay due in year or two..
Kathleen says
Yea, I’m sure I speak for all the professional drivers when I say I JUST CANT WAIT TO SEE THE MESS WHEN ALL THE 18-19 YEAR OLDS GET OUT ON THE HIGHWAYS WITH A TRUCK!!!!! GOD HELP US!!!!
t.m.h. says
I don’t think that it’s the 18-19 yr olds who are doing this stuff, and it’s also easier to teach them to do it the right way vs working w/some guy in his late 30s-40s who has been a pig his whole life. The ones who I’ve seen do this stuff are the mid-lifers who probably as ignorant now as they were when they were younger.
Blade says
Unappreciative bastard! Oh it’s ok to bring our city more money…. but we don’t want to see whose doing it. My buddy and I talk about this all the time. Every trucker around the nation should go on strike for a month. See how “disgusting” we are to see then! Every trucking company and driver in Midland should vote his ass out next election.
Kathleen says
I agree
bikerdave6200 says
I sure as he’ll will not vote for that idiot in the next election
Midland is an oilfield city. If it wasn’t for the oil/trucking industry it would just be another West Texas dustbowl town
Paul Beard says
It would not take that long. If we could stand together for a week…it would give this nation constipation and THEN let’s see how disgusted we’ll look. Not only that, drivers wages would go wayyyy up and fuel prices would go wayyyyy down. This ELD has made drivers shutdown in places they wouldn’t normally stop at and therefore Walmarts and the rest are a convenience. If we ever shutdown together, then they’ll be building Truckstops at every store, restaurant and city park in America. People will be saying, “Look at all those nice trucks. What a Beautiful sight?”
J.s. says
Maybe midland should screw themselves and ban rigs all together. Obviously supporting there city with goods and equipment is too rough on the infrastructure, and don’t forget the eye sores…..the councilman is the one who is indeed disgusting.
Douglas Kirk says
Midland is the eyesore in this scenario…..I hope the city doesn’t own any nasty trucks of any kind, including those that might be useful in maintenance, sanitation, or fire/rescue functions. If this guy was on fire I wouldn’t lift a finger to help….
Helen says
👍👍👍👍
Thirty8 says
Well said👏
Red Devil says
I must agree 😈
Stanley Terry says
If truckers don’t start sticking together like we did in years gone by, well most people know who the lifeline of the nation is. But of course this guy doesnt. A week strike might just be what truckers need to gain a little respect and by the way lets boycott these truckstops for overcharging us for food showers and parking.
scott says
Stanley, do you stand with the truckers who are tossing bottles of urine and other trash out into the open, or do you stand with decent people who just want a clean environment? Blame the idiots who brought this on, not the people who are disgusted by the filth that these inconsiderate drivers have brought to a parking lot near you.
Kyle says
Mental note to self f#$% Midland Texas and dont take a load there!
scott says
yea Kyle, you should just stick to delivering to places that don’t have a problem with trash and bottles of urine tossed about from these inconsiderate clowns.
John T Booker says
That politician COULD pick up some trash once in while on his own property. He lives like a pig, it’s disgusting.
Helen says
Good to know!!
Robert says
All truckers should boycott this area. Let’s see this schmuck of councilman bring goods and services to the area. I hope he knows what’s involved.
Jake says
I agree
Gallo says
There is to much money there. Some of the highest paying gigs in the country.
There will be no boycot.
Charles Bearden says
I lived in Andrews it doesn’t have any major grocery stores, unless in the last 4 years they built some. Had to go to Odessa, or Midland to the major stores. Neither cities have that many to really support the population out there, so to mess with the truckers to the point they do stop bringing provisions in, would be tragedy at it’s worse. The Government is willing to make the people suffer for their stupid engagement of restrictions on truckers in their city, only doing what needs to be done. Don’t you think they’d enjoy some quality time home with family? They bust their butts to provide. And I did it from 1989, to 2003. We sacrifice more than you jerks in City Hall, and the Capital truly comprehend! You say you do, well I don’t believe you! Otherwise you’s stop all this madness that’s being dished out. Clean your towns up, and build truck stops close to the places we must be at on time to deliver!
Terrance Cooper says
I agree
Mike conlow says
We truckers can fix this problem very fast if we all band together and boycott midlandn let’s see how long it takes the business community to raise hell with the city council and have the law reversed but knowing us truckers we can not get it together to get this done. We could solve most of our problems if we stuck together but we don’t so we continue to get dumped on
Robert says
How about we park in the city councilman’s back yard. It’s ridiculous how little parking is available. States are making it illegal to park on interstate ramps. Truck stops are far and few between. Those that are available are overflowing with trucks. Rest areas are over flowing. Some rest areas are closed. We need more Truck parking. Truck drivers are human beings, we are required to take a 10 hour break and unless it’s a team truck it means we have to park somewhere. Stop the ridiculous ordinance allowing authorities to give us huge tickets. It’s not fair to us that we are required to take a break but no place to park.
Jay says
And now they want to throw 18 year olds in a truck to compensate for a driver shortage. Where are they going to park? First parking ticket they get, they’ll be gone. The whole system is screwed up.
Alex Cheilik says
There’s no driver shortage, just a driver pay shortage ,so 18 yo drivers,will be paid less, but they will drive brand new trucks ,just a way to tell other drivers, they will have yellow bumpers like nascar, denoting rookie status
Paul Beard says
I’m afraid there is a driver shortage Mr. Alex. Recent polls have found that the U.S. has over180,000 job openings for truck drivers. I bought my first truck at 21 years old. I just retired a few months ago at 64. If I had the right backing, I would start a CDL School. I’ve trained lots of folks over the years for free, including my girlfriend and sons. They made great drivers. These youngster need to be trained right, not just given the answers to the CDL test, a spin around the block, then let loose on our highways.
Patricia L Munsch says
I just wanted to put this out there. My bf had me busting out laughing. At his job he had asked the opinion of what other drivers thought of the 18 yr olds driving. His Co worker replied, oh you mean the crash dummies, lol
Jeff says
I think it’s an ignorant move there is no driver shortage. There’s drivers all over the place sitting so explain a driver shortage what a moron There is a driver pay shortage
TruckSkunk says
I can explain it, drivers sitting all over reduce empy miles. The “driver shortage” will end when every shipper has a driver who lives in a parking lot a block away who hasn’t had a load in a week.
Carol says
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Charles Bearden says
These yo-yo smarties don’t let that sink in. All they want to do is come up with ANYTHING, so they can go home, go to their golf game,etc., anything but sit in their workplace and come up with logical, and reasonable solutions. And also spend some money on need things, instead of $1,000 plate diners, expensive private flight s to their vacation spots. While they screw around, us truckers work our butts off, and the rewards are few. How about all of you saying thanks, (and mean it), to the truckers out there. Without us, you’ll not have any more things coming your way! think it’s not so? Keep pushing, and you’ll see!
Robert says
We need to do a national shutdown in protest of high fuel prices and lack of Parking. After two days of shutdown, this country would be on it’s knees begging for freight to move.
James Gillispie says
Ive been saying this for a long time, you are absolutely right.
Jon says
You must be owner op, great idea BUT ….what do you think will happen to all the drivers for the
Swifties, Knights, Schneider’s
In 2015 Swift ran 50 drivers a week, week in and week out, through qualifing orientation….yields 30-40 new hires, or 175 a month on average. 6 months later 2/3’s of those had flamed our, Turnover has become a government mandate….that’s why they broke the unions in the first place.
No nationwide strike will ever occur. (Boy I hope I’m wrong, but I just don’t see it)
Joe says
National “sick day” or three or four may work. Its against the rules to drive while sick isnt it?
Brian L Helle says
Green Book Fmc safety regulations
Page 380 section 392.3 – ILL or Fatigued Operator
If you have the book read it if you don’t go to any truckstop and get it or read the section there.
Yes it is illegal to operate a commercial motor vehicle while fatigued or sickness.
Joe says
Im aware, I was pointing it out for those that are afraid as company driver to act on a “strike”. Thank you for pointing out the section so they may read it for themselves
Helen says
After 35 years as an o/o,
the bombardment of new and constantly changing regs, lack of safe and legal parking, and mind blowing toll costs, I am OUT!
Gator48 says
I’m 25 in the business and doing the same like you ..I’m Out .
I’m making $1500-$1800 weekly on the Construction business(blinds windows installation)with my brother over North Carolina.
Easy job, every day home ,No hustles,
No worries about dirty brokers, no stupid LED regulations ,fuel prices……
The best decision of my life.
Patricia L Munsch says
I agree a shut down has been talked about for almost 20 years now, it will never happen
Truck says
Lmao, love when I here this ! You act like that would happen
Krescenta Montgomery says
A two day shut down wouldn’t fly. We have to many mega carriers, shoving rookies through a quick “schooling” then putting them in trucks as teams. As an owner operator, I agree for a shut down. Fuel prices are astronomical. Lack of parking. When local police can arrest/or cite a driver for parking, due to HOS. It goes to show, that so many people don’t get that America moves by truck.
Jake says
Yes you have the power. Let’s charge more for delivery to midland.
To broke to park. says
If everyone going added a $500 parking surcharge I bet that law would change by next week. Lol.
Steph Hen says
I agree. Start working on it. They’ll definitely change their tune.
Robert says
Lack of parking yea high fuel prices that’s just part of the trucking game
Blunt Mofo says
Smartest thought on here. Truckers need to bend togther!!!
William Strength says
Amen…
Charles Bearden says
Amen brother! Keeping it real, and we MUST really get the point out that a major shutdown isn’t that far away. Went into a WalMart and saw how bare the shelves were, and I walked around telling people this is a taste of what can and will happen if the truckers shut down. And this what was happening was due to bad weather, and all inbounds from the East were delayed. The next time it’ll be because the truckers refused to move freight!
Jeff says
I agree 100% we need to shut down I’ve been saying that for years and no one will stick together it’s Me me me And a bunch of scared truck drivers
John Belcher says
I’M A RETIRED TRUCKER AND SHUTTING DOWN HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS. NOTHING EVER GETS DONE. THE MAIN REASON: THEIR IS NO UNITY IN TRUCKING.
Kathleen says
I agree 100%
David says
I can’t even get another driver to let me over in a traffic jam. Unity between drivers is dead and gone.
Steve says
I agree with a two day shutdown im tired of being treated like a second class citizen.
William McKechnie says
Problem is that truckers are an independent lot. They won’t get together on a shutdown. Too bad cuz that would wake up a lot of people!
Kathleen says
That’s right!!
Tom says
Yeah, right.
I don’t disagree with you, but it will just NEVER HAPPEN. Money is the King God in America. They mega carriers, et al) will ALWAYS find someone to do the work, for less than what we get now. Trucking will become like picking crops: only immigrants will be doing it, for less than slave wages.
Nicolas says
The sight of groceries on shelves is pretty disgusting too. We should stop replenishing that city’s stores for a little while.
Oh hey about that truck driver shortage…
Truck says
I love the “we should stop delivering their goods”
Try stop being pigs!
scott says
Well said Truck
Diem says
Why don’t you spend time behind the wheel of a rug!
Diem says
*rig
Helen says
👍👍👍
Jovan stokes says
This brain dead tick turd hope he chokes on his next meal. Next time im in midland ill just park in his wife jerk
Thor says
Thor-any city that hate truckers, I ask trucker STOP making any business in that city. If you are a trucker living in that city Stop living there move out of that city.
Terry says
Vote his behind out of office!!!
Doug says
Cool, any load that goes to Midland on this truck just got boosted $700. Wanna pick on those that make your life easy, we’ll pick right back. I’ve never liked suits, and this one just got on my s#*t list.
rigby says
Perfect answer. Just tag on another $500 for every load going in, just in case you might need to stop and rest for a minute and get a ticket.
Alex Cheilik says
U need big money to go there anyway ,nothing there just family dollar, all heavy and cheap
Patricia L Munsch says
My bf went there and he’s sorry he did. He’s looking at leaving. A one bedroom apartment is 1700 a month. You’re right, way to expensive
Drisanna says
I started by typing what I think of this Councilman and his lack of understanding. Then I realized that I could not describe my feelings without being very unladylike in my response. Therefore, I won’t post it here, but rest assured that I said some words to my monitor that I rarely use, even in private.
The lack of truck parking nationwide is becoming a truly critical problem, with no end in sight. Indeed, many towns are passing similar ordinances, thereby reducing the availability of parking and making the problem worse. If these towns would devote a bit of time, land and money to opening a place for trucks to park, they could charge a reasonable rate (say, $10/night) and discover a new revenue stream to improve their schools, infrastructure, etc., and possibly provide some tax relief to their citizens. However, they persist in approaching the problem the wrong way around and miss this opportunity. I feel sorry for their citizens.
Andrey says
If u see illegally parked trucks that means just one thing – there is not ligal truck parking around. So that smart and creative council suppose to build enough legal truck parkings before gifting truckers with tickets.
Especially if the town is booming.
Oompa says
IF ONLY…… Unfortunately there are NOT enough drivers with the balls or financial abilities to do this…. This is why people need to live within their means!!! If they did they would have all the power to control their little world…. The government knows they can out last any attempt to show dominance because people just spend spend spend & never save!!! They are a slave to the check…… I have been driving for 20+ yrs now & saved a nice nest egg & because of this…. my boss’s know they can NOT push me around to do the stupid things…. I don’t need the $$$ So I am left alone because I have the power to take carry of my family & myself without them…. That is the power all truck drivers should be aiming for…. if they want to ever make a change in their lives….. You don’t need to have it all to be happy!!!
Power of your own life is the only true happiness u need… God bless us all & the USA
Gentry Newsom says
You hit the nail on the head there! Keep it reel. I do & fish quite a bit while OTR….& I MIRROR YOU…BE SAFE.
AMEN
Rand says
I flatbed in the Midland-Odessa area every week and know which Walmart he’s talking about, which is right by I-20. While I don’t think it should be a fine for us to park there I do understand the problem for the locals — truckers are dumping trash all over that area. I’ve seen everything from the usual bags of trash and ruined tires to a mini fridge and 5 gallon buckets of used oil. The worst offenders are the truckers hauling frac sand and you’ll see 3-4 of them parked there at any given time of the day.
I know the demographic of the ‘drivers’ dumping the trash because I’ve seen it with my own eyes multiple times but I’d be called racist if I pointed it out. Let’s just say they don’t give a damn about this country and leave it at that.
James Gillispie says
All truck drivers across America should do a national shut down for a week, demand lower fuel prices, create more truck parking and do away with these ELDs and pay us more money.
Truck says
Zzzzz
Josh says
Yeah, no.
I don’t pay for fuel,
I park at the company yard every morning when I get off to go home,
I prefer ELD because I don’t want to doodle every 30 minutes for a stop,
and I make 15-1900 a week.
Get a local gig.
Donald Anglin says
Great for you and congrats ..but this is an impractical tesponse
Jeff says
I agree James 100% needs to happen and soon or the government will show more regulations down our throat that’s the only reason they’re doing it now is because No one does anything about it and they know they can get away with it
Stephanie says
The answer is simple to this problem. Don’t go to Midland. When the Walmart there closes from having empty shelves then maybe they will have a worse eye sore.
Truck says
Lol yea ok will stop
Just for you lol
Robert says
Lol walmart with empty shelves their trucks will deliver the goods won’t be seeing any of those shelves empty
Andrew H says
Sadly Walmart truckers typically are paid really well and probably won’t be coaxed. Where you’ll need to make the impact is the suppliers. Don’t deliver to Walmart DCs. They already extort lumper fees anyway for many of them.
scott brazinsky says
like darren said,boycott the town.Start with fuel haulers!
Carol says
I wouldn’t worry too much about Walmart. They still have to rely on outside companies to deliver to their DCs. The consumers are going to feel it.
Darren says
Well I say Its Time to Boycott Midland Tx! Let them see what happens when there are no trucks coming into their little town? If They don’t want to provide safe clean parking areas for us “ disgusting” truckers then let them go sit at a shipper for hours burning up time, then drive hundreds of miles to get the freight to where its needed only to sit for hours more to get unloaded! And after all that? You don’t have enough time left to get to a safe place to park thats not full?! We need to organize a national shutdown for 48-72hrs!
Blunt Mofo says
Tell me when. I’ll shut down!
Jeff says
I agree totally Darren STRIKE STOP ALL TRUCKS!!!!!!!!!
john says
Let’s face it….Truckers are just modern day slaves…wasn’t there a Civil War because of that?
Paul says
No the Civil War was all about State’s rights and it just happens that President Lincoln freed the Slaves at Gettysburg, PA with the Emancipation Proclamation.
David says
Confederate apologist.
LOL says
While slaves had the same education requirements as truckers (none), they sure as hell didn’t get paid $50,000 -$80,000 per year…
You make more than teachers, cops, CNA’s, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) and lots of other “slaves”.
Slaves? Nah, but you might be the King of Whining.
If it is so bad – go find another job that you are qualified for, that pays more than $50,000 per year. You can’t.
The fact is, while there are A LOT of sacrifices truck drivers make, they also make more than the average American.
PS – if you aren’t making $50k+ per year, you’re doing it wrong. Even local drivers make $900-1000 per week. Maybe quit job hopping like a crack head…
Patricia L Munsch says
I’d like to know where you are coming from with the pay you mentioned. My bf just went there being told he’d make 1870 a week. Once there they were told 700 a week minus 200 a week for the apartment he has to share with 3 other guys, there’s no way to make a living that way. He won’t get his first check for 2 weeks then they deduct the 400 which leaves him 300. How do you figure that’s great pay ? He’s trying to get out of there and found out you can’t trust a lot of those cut throat companies. He has 15 years + as a driver with 2 in the oil field
Carol says
I wouldn’t worry too much about Walmart. They still have to rely on outside companies to deliver to their DCs. The consumers are going to feel it.
Carol says
LOL, What do you do for a living?
Josh says
I make more running local than I did OTR and regional. Everyone I know that’s done both makes more running local.
1500 easy for a five day week, and I’m home daily.
And I work for JB Hunt.
Mharp says
Thanks for the info. I plan on working locally as well. Just not worth it sacrificing health and peace of mind and comfort and family too.
Windybag says
50,000/year
50,000÷52=961.54
70 hours per week
168 hours per week on
call
961.54÷70=13.74 per
Hour
961.54÷168=5.72 per
Hour
So again, how are truck
drivers making more than most?
cremater says
You do know that the average driver makes 44k a year, right? The average driver also works, actually performing job duties, 77 hours per week. On average a driver is away from home just over 3 weeks at a time with 2 days off in between living in approximately 16 square feet of space.
I think there there is a lot of room for improvement.
Tone says
That is just a poorly informed statement. And by the way , I do have a Masters Degree I’m Education.
Will says
I will like to see that happen
Terrance Cooper says
Exactly! hell the whole country is if you ask me just look around! Its fucking unbelievable when you finally see what’s going on in our country. Most of the ppl are modern day zombies who are just following everything they are told
scott says
kind of disingenuous, don’t you think John? I wonder what a real slave, you know, one who does NOT have the option of doing something else and does not get paid for his work, would think of your comment?
Ed says
Whats worse to you. Bare shelves or parking for trucks? You can’t have one without the other. Well it’s time you got your CDL and supplied your own town. Many of us won’t be back, fyi.
rigby says
How do people this dumb get elected anyway? Oh… nevermind.
Robert says
When is the shut down all talk no balls been saying that for years never gonna happen put tolls on that list of complaints $ 115 to cross a bridge it’s a joke
#Votehisbuttoffcitycouncil says
Price for freight going to Midland, TX just got more expensive on this truck. The cost for your citizens to live in your city, Mr. Councilman, just went up thanks to your big mouth.
Cac says
👍 … Most of you talk to much go on strike. Don’t deliver to Midland, Tx. I won’t. You’re to going to die if you don’t deliver there.
Robby says
Let that fool stop eating ,wearing and using the stuff they bring them see how they fill about trucks
TripleDigitMama says
Been working WTx for over 4 years, thier city is full of trash and rusted out old crap! We truckers keep this trashy city relevant..has any one checked out thier cost if living? If it wasn’t for us oilfield truckers, Midland would be dust and rolling weed piles, plus Thier disgusting trashy city
Truck says
It’s true though, truckers a freaking slobs!!! Throwing piss bottles! Pissing out there there! Peeing in a cup and pouring it outside! None of you barely bath! Throwing trash out your window!
Steve Hughart says
Well that’s texas for you the only thing that comes out of texas is steers and quers lmao
Truck says
Are you 12?
shogun says
Do you see any horns? Guess that narrows it down.
BMW says
You want tax revenue and business in your town but call us doing our job disgusting… That’s nice. A politician, the lowest scum on the planet, passing judgement on blue collar people. Lovely.
scott says
You should read the entire article BMW so you will know just what exactly they are calling disgusting. Hint: anyone with any sense of decency would say the same thing.
Tone says
Scott, I read the whole article, not seeing your point here. The city councilman’s statement is incorrect, and the fines are unfair.
David Unangst says
You’re saying truckers band together? With the new age driver, and the company who don’t care if they make a penny on every load. Shut down will never happen.
The big companies Schneider Warner JB, they don’t care how much they make don’t give a crap about their drivers. Chuckers Banning together will never happen especially with the new age driver. Just my two cents
David Schwarz says
I’ve already quit truck driving after 15 years of service. Just in time I’d say. Within the next 30 years, I’ll expect to see economic problems caused by the trucking industry hiring front pages.
Vanessa says
I guess all the food in the mayor’s refrigerator and all the clothes in his closet look disgusting too. Probably his furniture, car and boat as well. WAKE UP PEOPLE! Where do you think every bit of that came from??? I agree that the only way to make people realize how valuable we truckers are is to do a complete shutdown. Not just boycott the town, but all freight for a few days until conditions improve.
Eric D says
I live here and this guy is a tool. Because of the oilfield every truck stop is full at 5pm from belly dumps, sand haulers and flatbeds because people will buy a truck then use the truck stops to park them and go home for the night. So bypass this place, boycott Midland, don’t deliver here, don’t buy anything here.
George says
The solution… Park behind the Sam’s, Costco, Target, Walmart. I’m 10 hour breaking at one now (no over night parking/no parking). Focus on your 3 foot world. Out of sight, out of mind.
Bullfrogg says
So you’re one of those guys. Parking behind the store only inconveniences your fellow drivers trying to make a store delivery.
Roger Williamson says
Simple. Drivers just dont go into Midland period. I give it a week.
??? says
Agreed
Cac says
Exactly!!!
John says
Easy said hard to do. How do you want to convince millions of drivers to boycott Midland? It would be satisfying to see that city council begging truckers to come back, or just getting fired for making wrong decision.
George says
Also, utilize Google Satellite view and street view to recon your entry and egress points.
Mike says
What’s so disgusting?
Catbirdkirby says
Maybe it’s the smell of the lot on a hot day because of the drivers that relieve themselves next to their trucks. They can’t seem to walk to the store and use the facilities like a civilized driver.
Joe says
How about a nation wide “sick day” or three, Its illegal to be behind the wheel if youre sick right?
Matthew P says
They demand that we haul their loads for pennies on the dollar, and want it there right now but, they don’t want to see us doing it? What’s disgusting is the city council that agreed to punish truckers for doing their job. Everyone knows that truckers have to park to sleep, and park to get groceries and what not. I could understand punishing the drivers that litter and destroy property but, impounding or fining trucks and drivers for just simply being parked? Thank you to all the truckers that are going to protest this. Hopefully it will make them open their eyes and see what’s truly disgusting. It’s definitely not trucks parked safely.
David Edward Hanavan says
The only way to stop these butt holes dead in their tracks, as far as writing laws that harm us is to sue the crap out of them. Sure we cannot sue them as a councilman, senator, or congressman. But that is the limit of their protection, their protection ends at the name of their office. As the law says we cannot sue a member of the government, it however does not say we cannot sue the individual person. Basically we cannot sue councilman Lacey, but we can sue Lacy himself as an individual.
Stevo says
That’s a nice idea, but I ask, as suing Lacey as an individual, for what? Freedom of speech? Stomp on his 1st Amendment rights?
It gets sticky.
Now maybe, for his own slobbish habits?
Lee says
It’s bad enough that we’re on a time clock now but we can drive when they say we can drive now here we are may have to stay two or three hours further out from our delivery to keep from getting a ticket we need to get as close as we can do our delivery so we will have time to run the next day by the way Who is giving the money from this ticket deal in Midland Texas
??? says
Welp no more midland tx for me
Wonder how the councilman will feed his town an family when we the disgusting stop coming.
But at sametime these drivers that rather crap an piss in parking lots instead of goin inside are not helping any either
Mike says
Time to shut that oil and gas economic boom that town is experiencing down. They don’t want the trucks they don’t get the benefit of the added $ we bring
Walter L Sadler says
I agree on the boycott, only then will Midland residents, and counselman see the light
Bob says
432-685-7204 is the Midland ,tx city council phone number. Instead of leaving comments where they will never see them give them a call and tell them what you think….no death threats please.
Elkhannah says
If it wasn’t for trucks this idiot would be walking around starving naked and homeless. We need to bombard the City of Midland with calls.
Walter L Sadler says
I agree too boycott only then will we get respect and some consideration been thru Midland need clean it up period.
Samuel Gallezzo says
Usually when a council member starts botching about such things it means he hasn’t been properly paid off. You see it all the time.. Illinois towns are the same way. You’ll wake up in the morning and find a ticket in your door handle. Cowards cant even knock on your door and ask you to leave. Rather than go after criminals they mess with hard working truckers. Shame on you.
Nathan says
Small business is the way to go. Just get rid of the trucks altogether, and get rid of WalMart and the other chains while we are at it. There is no need to sell the same crap in every town in the USA. We are all corporate and political tools.
Rick Smith says
So, let’s go back to the Middle Ages?
Trust me, you wouldn’t like it there.
P.S. go to the library – History Section
Nathan says
Talk about a false dichotomy. . More like middle 20th century when we considered ourselves to be pretty prosperous.
Mike C says
Less percentage of people are in poverty now compared to then, and even the small businesses will need their stuff delivered on trucks
Nathan says
We had more freedom too. Those trucks are the kind that spend a lot more time home at night too.
Jason says
I’m not a tucker but I like being able to get groceries close to my neighborhood. I’d back you up if you boycotted my city if it was doing such nonsense. If just the O/O stick together and make it uncomfortable for people it would work. Y’all band together. Even the big boys, the Swift’s of the world NEED you OO to fill in the gaps they can’t handle. You have more sway than you realize. Band together!!
Mark Platt says
Midland is one of the worst places in the country, a huge heroin addiction problem, cocaine, meth, bath salt (these morons get high on bath salts) and weed, are everywhere. Midland is a crime ridden city plagued with dirty cops and other corrupt officials, including the city council members, judges, district attorney and more.
Midland is home to tens of thousands of oilfield trucks, and trucking is literally the life blood of the area. In my opinion the local truckers should park until the oil companies demand this idiot be impeached.
Joshua Weiser says
I have been thinking of running for governor of Pennsylvania in a couple of years and putting in a mandate that all shippers and receivers need to accommodate the drivers with a safe place too park if out of hours due to their negligence
Patricia L Munsch says
Why govenor ? Why not start a union of teamsters , a new one where drivers ban together to fight the injustice ? The existing teamsters union isn’t doing anything but collecting money for themselves
Catbirdkirby says
👌👍
Michael Sullivan says
Did you guys ever think that the eyesore is not the trucks what but what most of you leave behind instead of taking your garbage in your pee bottles to the trash cans or dumping them out on the dirt you just leave them on the parking lots and yes I’m an owner operator for 37 years I have seen this I have taken pictures of it we are our own worst enemies folks if we didn’t leave our garbage and RP bottles that are little bags of poop all over the parking lot maybe things would be different maybe it’s time to police ourselves just something to think about it’s disgusting to me to be sitting there and watching guy literally throwing garbage out the window and then drive off surely there is a trash can you can deposit your garbage in your pee bottles and if not get put it somewhere in your truck to you find one face it fellas we did this to ourselves just one man’s opinion
Tone says
This is true Micheal.
Sammy says
No more Texas for me anyway it’s time to quit this job
Funacres says
I frequently haul to Midland…..not anymore. Without me there the place should look a lot better…..one less disgusting truck.
Rick Smith says
Reminds me of Luke, Md. Westvaco Paper Mill was there on the river and
it employed half (or more) of the town.
It belched out some pretty stinky fumes though.
A visitor was heard to complain about the smell, and a resident said,
“I don’t know, it smells like MONEY to me!”
Without the trucks and truckers, ALL and I mean ALL, of America would
grind to a halt, starve to death, and ANARCHY, POVERTY and MISERY
would DEFINE America in a few short weeks.
When this clown meets a trucker, he should drop down and kiss the
ground he walks on.
Charles Bearden says
Well said brother! I say the same thing, referring to the movie, The Day The Earth Stood Still, but there’s no alien from another planet imposing threats if the world, but in this case it’s our United States, doesn’t change things that are corrupt, and unfair, fueled by greed, etc. It’s the trucker who will bring it to such a screaming halt, there’s going to be massive cases of whiplash! For years I use to ask myself, what does it take to correct this injustice served up to the truckers to eat.. I’m so clear on it now. Throw it back up in their faces, and then go take a 72 hr nap, and let them see after they clean up what’s happening as to no deliveries being made.
Rayzer says
Wow, just wow!
Andrew H says
I think it boils down to more than just the “sight of trucks”.
From my experience of being over the road, there’s a select handful of drivers who discard their waste products, both organic and inorganic, in parking lots where it’s a longer walk to the garbage or bathroom than your front row parking spots at your typical truckstop.
With that in mind, it’s a bit justified that people don’t really want trucks parking in lots when the few out there ruin it for the rest of us.
And before people start trashing this post… “A select handful” ruin it for all. Most drivers just want to park up, maybe do a little shopping, take a nap, wake up the next morning and carry on their next day in peace.
Geargrinder says
I wonder if some of these drivers were ever housebroken.
Mike C says
Those “organic” litterbugs need to have license yanked, fined $10000, and put on a litter clean up crew picking up the type of “organic” litter they leave for others to pick up.
If they are from another country and doing this to America the Beautiful , they need to be deported back to their scummy country of origin!
Catbirdkirby says
Amen to that!
Windybag says
Amen
R.J. says
Truckers need a UNION that everyone, both company and O/O, belong to.
At 62 years old, I’ve only been driving for 6 years, having retired from a previous career. I have never in my life been treated as I have being a trucker.
Between expensive and unreliable EGR engines and ELD’s….. “desk jockey” bureaucrats have, in my opinion, destroyed an industry
Patrick Moore says
It is far past due that all truckers reform and join the Truckers Union. It would be the most powerful union in the country. It would take care of its own as well as lobby congress to mandate more rest stop parking and more truck stops. This union would be so powerful the leaders would mandate a boycott to towns like Midland, Tx. It would be brought to its knees so fast that the town would finance a free parking lot for trucks. The union would furthermore inform the town that the annoying councilman has to go before trucks return. Life would become a bit more just for truckers.
Josh says
I’ve always driven nights and I’ve never had a problem with parking.
It’s almost like those two things are somehow related, and done on a personal level that doesn’t require government intervention or wasted tax dollars.
Hmm…
Donald Anglin says
Best comment in this thread ..
Jim says
OOIDA is a good start and about the only one theres going to be
Patricia L Munsch says
I agree, the existing union isn’t standing up for the driver’s at all
ProDriver says
Well now,what will Mr.High and mighty councilman think if the trucks go on strike again and don’t haul there precious oil for them He will be forced to resign by all the oil tycoons of Texas.His best bet is to leavre the truckers alone.
Give some people a little authority and they think they can do anything to anyone they want to!
Scott Stacy says
You don’t want to see the trucks, but you want the goods. You can’t have it both ways. We are NOT a nuisance. We are hard working professionals, working long hours to supply about everything you need or own! Do we not deserve to shop at a Wal-Mart or elsewhere. Without trucks and drivers willing to do this job, you have nothing. This “anti- truck”, anti- trucker mentality is simple- minded and ridiculous. I am beyond sick of attitudes like this. Pull your head out of your backside, Councilman!
Big daddy says
All this is is a money game plane and simple and has for far has I am concerned no drivers will ever do anything about it we just bend over and take it my question is when is enough a enough this country would starve if it was not for the truck drivers Male and female city council man go sit on a long horn
Everett Madison says
Well my 2 trucks won’t be going to Midland, TX. So now the rates going there goes up.
Bruce Brandon says
Why is no one blaming Wally World? Take down the no trucks signs and issue solved.
Stephen Baetz says
Go on their Facebook page. I did and left them a message.
Be polite no profanity, it’ll bolster our cause all the more.
Be specific and to the point, letting the city know that we need a safe place to park before or after our deliveries into Midland Texas.
Don’t threaten them with we’ll boycott cause that’s a last resort and we don’t want them to know we could do so.
Again be polite
Jaar says
Texas is NOT truck friendly. I don’t understand why GATS uses the state to throw a show.
GEO HALL says
THERE WOULDN’T BE A PARKING PROBLEM IF THE STATES WOULD STOP USEING REST AREAS FOR D.O.T INSPECTIONS AND CLOSING OTHER REST AREAS AROUND THE COUNTRY , TRUCK STOPS CLOSING DO TO HIGH RENT AND MANTIENANCE COST’S , LEAVING TRUCKERS NO PLACE TO GO, AND THE E.D.L RULES MAKE YOU TAKE 10 HRS OFF INSTEAD OF 8 BEFORE YOU RESTART THE CLOCK , THAT DOESN’T HELP MATTERS ON TOP OF NO PLACE TO PARK , DO THE MATH , MORE PEOPLE , MORE DEMAND, MORE TRUCKS.
Dave says
Well I guess that is one town we will not be hauling fright into .I think it’s time for truckers to ture off there motors and see if they need you!
Geargrinder says
I am surprised he didn’t mention the garbage drivers invariably leave behind. It’s disgusting. Bunch of pigs.
Billy Big Rig says
I’ve been to Midland and I personally didn’t see anything “Great” about it. GMAFB!
Zox says
This councilman man is just upset with the truckers cuz one or two have done his wife in their trucks so he’s very mad.
Midland ain’t going to see me delivering there no more.
Texas don’t let this happen Texas you are truck friendly state keep it that way.
Yogi says
I don’t think anyone should have an issue with Councilman Lacy’s initiative to stop trucks from parking in Midland, Texas. It is a free country, and he has every right to pursue the ordinances he feels is best for his community.
On the other hand, in much the same way the industry treated the Rhode Island truck-only tolls, I think the trucking industry as a whole should seriously consider a $500.00 surcharge to deliver in Midland, Texas. It is a free country, right, and we have every right to pursue the policies we feel is best for our community.
Douglas Kirk says
Good luck collecting it. You can surcharge and bill all you want, but if they don’t pay you can go whistle for your dinner
Raymond white says
I stand by you truckers 100% for i am a trucker too..from across the pond.and in england and across europe parking is the same..but we have to take a 45 hour break..every 2 weeks..and a 24 in between..so europe decided to Not allow drivers to sleep in their vehicles..for a 45 hour break..but must use a hotel. At drivers cost..and all the drivers here did..was complain.no action..just moan.
And parking in the uk is on average £30 per night..with no security.
And vehicles are often targeted by thieves. Not forgetting..we dont have big cabs with toilets and showers.
So have to share.and they are often dirty..europe is better..but we have been swamped with east europeans who dont pay for parking or facilities. Hence the discrimination against parking restrictions..and the low wages theyre paid.and low rates.
Good luck in your quest..to not run trucks into midland..or charge an extra $500 for the privelage.
Its the only way.
E. Washington says
He must’ve had a run-in with some truckers back in the day while driving on I 20. Midland is an oil and gas boom town. If this person does this the city is gonna loose a lot it’s revenue and they are gonna wake a long resting sleeping giant called the trucker union.
Ed says
The jerk is on Twitter. Let HIM know how you feel. Probably Facebook too. Let him know !
Bill says
O.K. Counsel, Now you will have to drive to another city to purchase your groceries, seek medical care, sanitary products for your homes and furniture. You’ll have to go to another city to purchase your appliances, wood and other material for your homes. “O”, and that also includes toilet paper.
Ben says
It’s disgusting…?? But when you eat produce from Walmart it ain’t disgusting anymore,huh? Pshhh…
You should build a big and nice parking lot for us,with a restaurant,where we can have a nice and hot meal, clean showers,clean bathrooms, etc…
It’s easier for you to point the finger , but try to do something about it dude!! Not parking tickets!
*I hope you’ll take my idea and make it happen. Danke
Walter dice says
Well I think that it’s about time for truck drivers to stand up and defend your rights of fee working environment if not let city official starve us to death and be a real eye sore then
Scott says
As disgusting as this is any that makes oil babies lives harder is just fine with me.
M A says
This is the stupidestthing i ever read. If trucksare disgusting in aplacewhere trucksare needed where the heckdoes this guy sayingthey look”disgusting” think trucks should park?they cann9t just magically disappear into thinair
He needs to get his judgmental head out of his a** and figure out a better solution or this citys oil is gonna stay stuck in the ground when he runs off all the trucks. .
Pat says
Here is a head scratcher…. My city has No Commercial Truck Parking in residential if over 26,000 GVW my subdivision has no commercial truck parking on street or in driveway of I believe 16,000 GVW. Yet my neighbor is a mechanic for a construction company and parks his truck which is mounted on KW T800 chassis (GVW 56,000) on the street every night and all weekend. My other neighbor drives OTR and was parking his bobtailed Cascadia in his driveway about 3-5 days a month after he moved in. He not only got nasty grams from our HOA which he ignored but then they threatened with a lawsuit and he was fined by the city. When he asked how the guy with the Maintenance truck can park every night, but he can’t park a few days a month he was basically told because your truck could possibly have a trailer attached which is a safety concern and is therefore considered a commercial vehicle.
BC says
Is OOIDA going to do anything???
Safety DIrector says
Really! Well I think all Tuckers should NEVER enter Midland! You want your stuff hauled but its disgusting to see truckers in a parking lot? Sorry bud but the FEDERAL laws tell a driver he has to stop at a certain time or its a crime! And your going to FINE them for following federal laws? I would NEVER take a load to or from Midland. Let the moron go without food for his family, gas for his vehicle, and his BOOMTOWN will no longer exist!
Gary says
I bet if a disaster hits them they will be rethinking this law….
Brian Jones says
What an a hole..!!!! That’s just about right.. if he is so tired of looking at trucks then just completely banned them from midland all together.. I hate that place anyways..
Rich Sabatini says
You pom-puss upity latte sipping laptop poking euro fashion wearing metro modern android know-it-alls !
Prior to encouraging growth in the area you and your brood of vipers should have known big trucks are gonna bring everything ,even your latte cups and sandals.
Truck and drivers need parking space to meet the HOS demands.
Enjoy your latte you high minded short sighted brown shirts!
DJ says
I just sent this email to city council of midland “Greetings. My name is DJ Jarvis. I happen to be a truck driver. I think you are out of touch with your views. You want your goods delivered but you don’t want to see the trucks right? What are we supposed to do when there’s not nearly enough truck parking?
Why don’t you band trucks from midland city limits all together? Why don’t you ban us from making deliveries too? See, everything that gets anywhere got there by truck!
Your city would not survive without those same “Disgusting trucks” in those lots that have nowhere else to park.
Why aren’t you working on a solution rather than banning trucks? Just imagine if all trucks boycotted or no longer delivered any goods to your city? You wouldn’t have a city! I wish we truckers could all get together and just show people that think like you what it would be like without us!
Sincerely, DJ Jarvis
Sent from my iPhone
Linda Merritts says
Could all the truckers and I am taking to the independent ones because we know the big companies are not going to help, but we independent truckers are really the majority of the business. WE NEED TO SET HOME JUST ONE WEEK AND CRIPPEL THIS COUNTY CAN I GET A HELL YES
B says
Send the council man a friendly message https://www.midlandtexas.gov/directory.aspx?eid=14
Jerry says
Thanks for your link, I went there and posted….others should also if you care about this issue
Trucker crazy says
Remaind to that councilman the tampons for his daughter ,Alzheimer’s medicine for his wife and his toilet paper come on a truck….
Derek says
All truckers boycott Midland, Tx, make them go without any food deliveries for a few months, they will change their minds very Quickly!!!
JerryD says
I would almost venture to say it’s more about the trash left behind in the lots as well as damage done to the lots that has created this. We were once known as the Knights of the highway, thanks to these new breeds of disgusting steering wheel holders those days are LONG gone. How many times do we pull in places to find trash bags, piss bottles, s–t bags/containers, etc. Lost count at the amount of times I’d pulled in somewhere an the lot smelled like a urinal, and then wonder why we’re getting kicked out of places, I wouldn’t wanna have to clean up after the nasty bastards either. Due to a spinal injury that compressed my spinal cord an left me with permanent damage I’ve been outta the industry since the end of 2015. For the most part I miss driving coast to coast, especially out West, other times I see things like this and remember how the industry/drivers/people had changed and continued to change while I was out there I don’t miss it at all.
Chris says
I go through that area often and can’t find parking if I want. Many of the oilfield services drivers “do” park just anywhere in any way they want. Just pull the parking brake. Many of you have seen it in truck stops around the country and we know the type of drivers they are. No professionalism at all. As far as the oilfield drivers go their companies should purchase property for their vehicles.
Jeff Pearson says
Funny thing about we know the types of drivers they are…bet you couldn’t last a day working the fields..but I do know they make a lot more per year than you do..so who’s the better driver now?
Michael Smith says
How is it not discrimination in the worst way to deny a working taxpayer the opportunity to shop for what they need. Walmart may be complicit, but it’s politicians putting their name on the discrimination. How is it different to say it’s disgusting to see white, or brown people in a store. A fact that trucks pay far more taxes and serve public needs in any neighborhood in the country. Texas needs to drain the Austin mentality, let them know what a minority they are.
Jim Estabrook says
FIRST: Obviously, some drivers have trouble READING. SECOND: The trucks he’s referring to are the garbage used to service the oilfields. Have you ever tried to get a parking space in one of their “truckstops”? Nearly impossible! The service companies allow drivers to take their trucks “home” with them. This means park in “truckstops” when they are off duty. That means you nor I can get a parking space. THIRD: These pieces of crap do NOT deliver goods, they deliver water, crude, sand, etc. So the “delivering goods” argument doesn’t fly. Therefore banning trucks argument, for the reason on not delivering goods doesn’t fly. If this were L.A. then yes it woud fly. This DISGUSTING little ‘burg of Midland is like a trash trap for all the oilfield service trucks, NOT the OTR trucks.
Jeff Pearson says
Funny how many of those trucks you refer to are working 24 hours a day..companies can’t afford to shut them down as this garbage that you refer to costs about twice as much as most trucks..as for goods…just what do you consider goods? Really funny thing.. those goods that are in that oilfield trucks..they make 2 -3-4 times more money than you do…and really funny thing.. those trucks that you complain about are a part of obtaing this garbage called crude oil…aka DIESEL FUEL..so without them.. you DON’T HAVE A JOB.. so if this bothers you..maybe go to the next town…
Douglas Kirk says
I couldn’t give less of a damn about how much money anybody makes in any particular line of work. I’ve been in and around the patch for 40 years, and I don’t see why anybody puts up with that crap. Live like animals and work 24 hours a day……sounds glamorous to me
Steve Wiser says
If we had a councilman pull that stunt in Billings, Montana, we would still have trucks in lots, but a new councilman.
Sandra grover says
The good folks of Texas certainly do not support his views. If you go to a truck stop and see 100 trucks, and every truck driver has went to their company paid hotel..that is the problem. The companies need parking lots for their business. The otr driver cannot afford the $250 a night hotel with no truck parking. Every oilfield town has huge billion dollar companies who buy every room in the hotel for their employees. Every week they could build a new hotel and still not have adequate housing and parking..This councilman doesn’t see what an economic hardship it creates to pay $1000 a week for an old fema trailer. When your housing exceeds 75 % of your revenue stream, you have a problem.This industry has always had 18 year olds and 21 year olds.They was raised on farms and did military service already. The oilfield provides them additional training with low risk to the general public. Please put the city leaders in every type of truck, ride for 10 hours sleep 8 hours, and ride again for that 80 hours. We have to follow federal law on how fast we go, how much we sleep, and we have so much technology the common person cannot imagine.If I mention adaptive cruise control causes crashes, they give me a blank stare..cars that start and stop in heavy traffic with a computer driving? blank stare..collision mitigation systems that allow the computer to seize control? Why do you see megacrashes- because the professional driver Wasn’t driving! You hear brakes lock..hit the median. The new trucks cannot lock the brakes like the old days.( technology) Now add in fatigue, illness and electronic logging devices and you can clearly illustrate how your parking scenario is created. We don’t want to park on an offramp with 70 mph traffic..we do not desire to be crammed in a lot so small that we have so many crashes just trying to park and sleep..we need food, medicine, and headlice shampoo just like you! We need eye doctors, pneumonia shots and pet food! Our phones break..just like yours..Therefore, since we see home every 30 days for a whole 34 hours..its difficult to plan for little emergencies. This fight to sleep has nothing to do boycotting your stores, or not wanting to feed your families..its called” we want respect”
Ken Vaughn says
This politician needs to do a ride along with a driver in the trucking industry. I’m not knocking his ride along with the police department in fact I endorse it . I’m suspicious tho if some that was just what he thought was “touch talk” for the media. Apparently this politician , is clueless about today’s trucking industry! My fellow drivers know just what I’m talking about . Sometimes things happen out there & even the best pre plans fall short . I’ve had to shut down in areas that wouldn’t have been on anyone’s list . I’ll give the politician the benefit of the doubt , let’s face he doesn’t live in our world . Maybe after a ride along with an OTR or regional driver he would have different feelings for our fellow drivers.
llilillill says
@JRossforMidland is his Twitter.
From his official website…
“Lacy is the President of Lacy Oil Corp. and Managing Partner of Lacy Capital, LLC…”
Wonder how many of his trucks are trashing the joint up?
Larry Cooper says
Yes Mister Congress man like the other guy said , TAKE your own car go pick your own DAM cabbage, lettuce,and cotton yo make your clothes , and cut your own trees to make your furniture, and ass wipe paper, cause this old trucker won’t EVER bring ANYTHING to your lovely town AGAIN. NEVER , smoke that mr. congress man
Jeff Pearson says
You want an eye sore? How about NO trucks in Midland texas…no pick ups.. no deliveries..and you can go to the next town to pick up your groceries and toilet paper..and all truckers that live in Midland should take thrrir money elsewhere..it is time that if these cities BITCH about trucks..then show them what trucks do for them..and what trucks will do without them..and here is a start and a chance to show them..
Christopher Rasmussen says
He’s on Twitter !! Start complaining to this fool !! J.Ross Lacy he’s easy to find
L L Vergith says
” Farts are the ghosts of yesterdays lunch ! “
tonya johnson says
If that’s the case then why offer a driver to deliver to customers out there for business, then just keep all trucks from delivering to the customers since truckers are nasty to them! see how they like it when they need their stuff delivered! Just wipe the smile off your face! NO TRUCKS!
Tom says
Maybe they should start carrying their oil to the refinery in five gallon buckets.
Vanessa says
Ha!!! Get this! Right after I made my comment on his Facebook page, he blocked me! I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to block comments while serving a public office. What a cock!
Douglas Kirk says
Doubt it…..he isn’t required to be on Facebook as part of the job, so he can do whatever he wants
Rhoda Thompson says
J lacy Ross..this guy is a clown..look at midland tx..it’s a mess..council man Ross is a jerk trying to make money…I got the solution..no trks in that 1 horse town..quit buying crap..problem solved..
Ray says
If this damn industry would get together and refuse to make a delivery in that town it would wake that idiot up. The mega carriers are afraid they will make customer mad and the next carrier on list will get that load. If the driver would learn the word no, but they are afraid of the company and 5.00 on check I don’t believe Werner would terminate 5000 drivers.
Eduardo Morales says
Idk guys and gals. The talk of parking for a week is great. Hell, I’ve mentioned it before, but never happens. At this point, this is the only way we will get heard. We are being ignored every single day. Laws and regs are always against us. And what do we do, pay the highway use tax, IFTA, tax at pump, useless UCR, IRP, plus tolls. What the hell is going on! When are we all going to say enough! We need to stand together if we as truckers want to be respected. It’s a shame we are called garbage, dumb drivers, etc. Lets stand together and say enough is enough! WE THE PEOPLE say enough!
PokyDoRight says
Glad I stopped doing trucking this year after 20+ years.
When I realized that NEVER is the time on record that we would be respected is when I jumped ship.
My Quote to consider:
What does a Trucker and a Prostitute have in Common?
No respect, Always got money issues, You’ll sleep anywhere, and you never get a chance to take a bath between the people who plan to screw you!
Paul D Bentley says
Midland Tx is Getting like Gaport a truck unfriendly city. don feed em
Michael T says
Boycott boycott boycott ……..He needs to know without trucks there’s no food gas or anything for that city he also needs to know…..thats trucks is our home away from home our vehicle away from home and we also like to shop for food and park where there is restrooms and a place to sleep what is so disgusting about that ????😡😡😡
James Audas says
It looks like this only applies to parking in zones that are marked no truck parking . I generally never park in a no truck parking zone anyway.
This article doesn’t seem that unreasonable. It doesn’t say you cant park just you could now be ticketed for parking in a no parking zone.
S Jones says
Well, it’s time to show those people who runs the show. Everyone needs to boycott Midland Tx and let them see what happens when those “disgusting” trucks stopping bringing freight. How can a truck be disgusting? Really! I say SCREW YOU! You want groceries and supplies… go get them yourself.
Kent A says
You look up narcissist in the dictionary and it says “That idiot city councilman in Midland Texas.”
What’s really disgusting is that j e doesn’t have the character to say what his movement is really all about. Money, and why do private property owners
18WheelsCountry says
A Large group of Big Trucks head to Midland Texas. Upon arriving within City Limits shut down the Trucks on all roads entering and leaving town in both directions. What would be his thinking on Trucks Then? No Deliveries or Shipments. No fuel for the service stations. God forbid if a fire were to happen, then what? Ignorance is bliss.
Mike says
I am retiring next month started before cell phones and GPS a lot of good helpfully truckers in my beginning NOT to many out there anymore good luck brothers with the infestation
Pat says
I drove 18 years OTR and walked away last November because of this crap and disrespect. I signed up with Uber passenger and food delivery just as a temporary gig and I actually enjoy it that I just bought a brand new SUV I solely use for Uber (like being an O/O but without DOT up your backside) I work when I want and for how long I want. I usually work 9am to 9pm I take a two hour lunch between 2 and 4 M-F with occasional Saturday and Sunday nights for extra $. I’m making more at the end of the month then I ever did as a Commercial driver and I am home every night and holidays and longest wait between request or what I like to call “loads” is usually 5-10 minutes I have waited up to an hour and 5 minutes once. Plus I can cash out right away or wait for direct deposit once a week. I do miss seeing the country, but I love seeing my wife and kids everyday and taking my kids to and from school every day and making it to games and recitals.
Pat says
Oh and getting to shower in my own shower everyday is a huge plus.
shogun says
Nice commercial for Uber. Now take those lies elsewhere, damage control dept.
Truckergirl2014 says
So! They implement the ELD crap…..then close every rest area they could possibly think of. And Whine when corporate companies wants to build more truck stops!… Yeah…..that makes sense(BYTCH)
Vernita Stokes says
So it’s like every other town that does this. Until the drivers pull together and fight this bigotry nothing will stop it. Is this legal. Stop delivering to his beautiful town ( the idiot ) like everyone said Midland is an oil toan. Where are the trucks going to park? In his pay parking.
TOM Johnson says
Where do. We supposed to park these.Day.let people’s start hauling they goods in cars and pick up truck. We have to park somewhere
SnowWalker says
I was fortunate enough to retire before the ELD became mandatory, so I could drive until I could a place to park my rig. Now, I know of many drivers who are forced to use rest stops and farmers yards to do their breaks. It’s going to take another year or two for the white shirt & tie goof balls to figure out the big hole they have dug for the trucking industry.
John says
Here’s his Facebook page, go tell him (respectfully) why he’s wrong
https://www.facebook.com/pg/JRossLacyCityCouncilmanDistrict4/posts/
Vanessa says
He blocked me after I told him his comments were disgusting
Tony Z says
Unfortunately these cities get away with making life difficult for us not only because of the nasty steering wheel holders we have today but we as whole can sit here bitch and complain about stuff but when it comes right down to it we won’t stick together and that’s why this happens I’ve stopped going to Texas for a while now big companies hav ruined rates and too many foreign drivers y’all enjoy
Derek Garvin says
They tried this in Georgia and it only lasted 2 weeks. When the stores started running out of food, toiletries, fuel and building supplies the city council had to change there mind real fast. However with this being said we all need to clean up our act. And not to sound racist but there is one nationality that we have drivers from that are just COMPLETE PIGS.
Mike Marc Dave says
Agreed
wolfhawk says
Its not 1 nationality,, its drivers from all walks of life,, some have no respect and are just gross pigs,,, leave piss bottles on the ground,, throw trash on the ground,, then we wonder why places dont want trucks parking in there lots.. I cant blame some of them,, there employees dont want to go out in a lot and clean up piss bottles and shit bags… I am so glad its only a few like this.. If you see a driver doing it, speak up, tell them to get there trash up,
My little 92 lb wife did at a rest area,, told this fat ass driver who we watched throw a bag of trash and a bottle full of piss out of his window onto the ground,,, wow,, sad thing,, right in front of his spot on the sidewalk,, a trash can.. She jumped out of our truck and went to his drivers door and gave him holly hell and so funny,, he got his big huge ass out and picked up his trash and put it in that can.. she made me proud,,
Richard Thomas says
Wonder why nobody wants to drive these things anymore??. Not worth the hassle.
J w says
I just got done watching the video on the Internet about this Ross character and Police Department and they said they were taking him to secret spot where they park which was at Walmart and the officer said look this is where they park for convenience it’s not convenient you butt hole it’s because the law says we have to stop and we have nowhere else to stay if you’re going to make a comment make sure you know what you’re talking about before you say it
Paul says
As i alway say….. blame the government, not the truckers for the e-log system!! I find the e-logs to be disgusting!! How about doing something about that?? If you run out of hours and can’t move, then you can’t move period!!!
Joaquin says
I hope all those city councilors get ran over by truck drivers on highway.
Walter Crysel says
I think all trucks should drop their loads on outside of city and let them figure out how to deliver them . These people are stupid they have no Idea what they are doing . If you are out of time and you leave the city D O T stops you ,your screwed , better yet no more delivers to Midland Texas
Winter Powers says
Your way of thinking is disgusting. You do not mind making money off of the oil boom for your “GREAT CITY”. But the truckers who enable your “GREAT CITY” are disgusting, well good luck with that whole making money thing without them.
Instead of insulting the truckers who enable yall to make money and then add insult to injury by giving them tickets for parking in the few places large enough for their trucks so that they can get some sleep, which is what they have to do to be in compliance of FEDERAL LAW, why don’t yall bunch of ingnorent hicks take some of that money and build truck stops in your “GREAT CITY” so that they have a safe place to park so that they may get some rest and not be harassed by yall.
Just some FYI for ya. Oh, and by the way FYI stands for (FOR YOUR INFORMATION.)
D. Donovan says
Here is the email I just send to this “counselman.” I attached a photo of a horrible area of Detroit to show him how all of America would look if all the truck shut down for about 30 days.
Mr Lacy,
So sorry for you on a few counts.
1. That you think the law exists to provide you personally the opportunity to fine citizens who are “disgusting” in your sight. Wow, if I could have collected $500.00 every time another human being ever did something I found off-putting, I’d be worth many millions (before taxes).
2. That you feel free to fine truck drivers when they aren’t hurting anyone (assuming their trucks are not encroaching on regular customers during busy hours) and that you do this obviously without knowing how low many drivers pay is.
I turned to truck driving out of desperation in 2012. From 01/01/12 to 04/30/12 my average net weekly was about $360.00 with a horrible company from Nebraska called Werner Enterprises.
3. If you REALLY want to see something disgusting, see the attached photo, as it will show you pretty much what America would look like if all trucks shut down for about 30 days, because that would mean no food deliveries to stores, fuel deliveries to gas stations and no medical supply deliveries to doctors and hospitals.
We need fire fighters, police and our military to be on-call, but we hope we don’t need them. Truck drivers, on the other hand, are the life blood of our civilization.
You should encourage your citizens to slip drivers 5 or 10 bucks whenever they’re near one. Not penalize someone who’s just trying to do their job.
BTW, very often, a driver is parked in a shopping center because they have run out of drive hours as regulated by the Fed’s without a milligram of common sense or decency. When a driver is out of hours, they must park for at least 10 hours or face wicked-cruel penalties.
And an Over-The-Road trucker usually lives in his/her truck for 28 days at a time before getting a few days off. That means if I drive 600 miles today to deliver to BumFudge, ID, I simply park where I can, move from the driver seat to the bunk and rest, then wake up and do it again the next day, assuming I am with a company that plans well. If I am not, I may sit right there 24-48 hours waiting for another assignment, which may very well come between 9 & midnight, when I have been awake all day and am not ready to drive.
Without truckers, America DIES.
-Sincerely,
David
Age 56
Zagreb says
The more trucks, the more garbage, the less the truck stops pay, the less people are willing to show up and pick up the lot. Then the manager asks sweet Dolly to leave the counter and do the rounds, she is pissed quits, repeat. The truckers are busy effectively bringing money. The byproducts are a result of the decisions made after the fact.
The wealthiest country with the crappiest roads for instance.
David sta says
I was in the strik in 1970 an every thing they asked for they got they shut this country down. As far as swift in an Schneider they can’t fire the whole dam co.
Richard Piwowar says
If people don’t shop
We drivers have nothing to deliver
We ( drivers) are a very small percentage of the rest of the world
Love one another
BOB the trucker says
I have been driving tractor trailers since1975. What a difference in drivers since then. There are many rookies that do not understand what professionalism in the trucking industry is and what that means to our industry. When you act and dress like an unprofessional POS, you get treated like one.
New drivers for the most part need a lot of mentoring to learn how to be respectful and courteous instead of thinking they have assumed superpowers with a huge vehicle. Big fleets let the rookies go on their own too soon and push them to the breaking point.
As a CDL instructor, I have seen so many “want to be ” drivers who think they can do this because we “Professionals” make it seem easy and they think they are entitled because they attended a driving school.
I am constantly repeating myself about safety issues, courtesy, respect, and control of their vehicle but for most of them they dont get it.
There are many who do graduate to a license, but do not understand how this industry really works. That’s where “mentoring” need to be implemented for at least 6 months as part of the on the job training for the newbees. If you want quality drivers, you as the Professional need to make them into them.
AS FOR THE COUNCILMAN, YOU SIR SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF FOR YOUR INCONSIDERATION TO THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE.
You should not be treating all drivers like this. Not all drivers are trashy and disrespectful. Instead, you should be working more at a positive solution to accommodate a solution for the parking problems. AS a councilman, you should be more of a problem solver than a whining knucklehead creating more chaos and problems so you can win on both sides. If the trucks boycott you town from food and medical supplies for a week, you could have other issues that will create other chaos like civil unrest when supplies are cutoff.
In a nutshell, the trucking industry needs a revamp but the trucks need to be seen and treated as a sign of Beauty not disgusting. Not allowing trucks to park on commercial lots is disgusting.
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les_gvt says
Go to Midland/Odessa a lot- Big Spring has the same issue. While I agree with him to a point- someone needs to ask him exactly WTH are trucks supposed to park- especially now that most are running Elogs- and you need to be as close as possible to your delivery point.
But I have driven through several times and what I think he is looking at is the same problem that got truck banned from Walmart in Nogales- All the trash the trucks are leaving behind. The more non-English speaking pipe haulers that fly through town at 90mph, the worse the problem has become. Immigrants from certain countries/regions don’t seem to understand the concept of a trash can- unless they need to use it for their butt wipe.
This is a problem that was essentially created by our federal government and its open door let’s drag everyone in we can to be a truck driver’s policies
Ryan says
This is a fine example why there is a “Trucker Shortage” these guys including myself are just tired and fed up with all the BS that goes with the job just like this. I think it’s time we start concentrating on the human trafficking issues instead of worrying about some poor trucker trying to get some sleep in a parking lot after making deliveries all night! Good greif, these guys put up with so much crap out there it’s unreal! I’m now doing local fuel hauling and don’t deal with most of all that anymore! Bean there done that just sad. Just freaking sad!
Horton Walkerz says
I drove over the road for 19 years. The major carriers, Swift, Werner, Schneider, ….etc, all get government grant money for running these kids thru driving schools like water thru a hose. They put these kids in trucks after about 250 hours of training, most are gone in a few months. I now work at a manufacturing warehouse, Werner is our main carrier, ( and by far the cheapest ), I preload a trailer picked up at night. I come in the next morning and the driver backs the empty in the dock with the doors closed. The industry is done.
Nathan says
Face it, there isn’t going to be a trucker’s union because we are all rugged individualists who are isolated and disinterested in each other for fear of accidentally helping someone who doesn’t deserve it, because that would make us socialists.
Donald selke says
Well if he want continue eat he better get used to it because everything moves on trucks
Jazmine says
Just terrible on that councilman TRUCK DRIVER DO A HELL OF A JOB!!!
James Dean Fisher says
This prick is not only a dam fool, but dumb as an oilfield rock. Some one should explain to this fool just what it is that trucks do for the city of Midland, Texas. SHOULD THE TRUCKS STOP…THIS IS THE ONLY WAY FOR AN IDIOT OF THIS LEVEL IS GOING TO SEE THE LIGHT and results of NO trucks in Midland!!!!
SHUT DOWN THE TRUCKS AND TRUCKERS, STOP OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS AND TELL MR. LUCY TO SEND SOMETHING OUT THERE TO GET THE PRODUCT TO THE MERCHANTS IN THE CITY OF MIDLAND, TEXAS!!!!
James Dean Fisher -Trucker/small fleet owner/copywriter
James Dean Fisher says
The only way the e-log nightmare is going to STOP is for the trucks to SHUT DOWN…STRIKE…STOP RUNNING. NOT ONLY IS THIS E-LOG UNCONSTITUTIONAL, it fly’s in the face of the freedom and the right to work as an independent business. The e-logs infringe upon the right of privacy, the machine hinders the ability to enjoy freedom as a citizen of the USA, as well as forcing the drivers to jeopardize his or her safety, as well as the safety of the driving public. When the 14 hours runs out, the dam truck shuts down, mattering NOT where the rig is located. That, my friends, puts the driving public in jeopardy and in danger. The e-logs MUST GO! My trucks are PARKED and will STAY parked til the ELD is gone!!! If I sell, well that will be 4 trucks NOT doing business in the industry that brings ALL Product to all the retail outlets in this country!!!
JamesDeanfisher/small fleet owner/Copywriter
Mike says
Umm midland texas is completely disgusting all together so whats the difference.
KOSHERGUY says
I can understand being upset about the slobs who are screwing it up for other decent truckers but yet he says nothing about the gang graffiti in Midland, Texas . Nor not a word about the 11 of the most violent street gangs in Texas that are currently in Midland , Texas as we speak . They are an “ eyesore” to many in Midland Im quite sure .
Chris says
I went thru midland and Odessa 2 days ago and decided to keep going. The truck stops were full ,nasty and unsafe. Shame on the drivers for leaving there trash and piss bottles. I plan my day so that I can find a place to park that won’t fine me and won’t boot my truck. Now that I know about this I will not pick up or deliver to your cities.
Grim Reaper says
Typical reaction from someone who doesn’t know where anything comes from, even frac-sand and rock
Gentry Newsom says
What kind a fool are you Dr. Lacy ? We have to park in commercial areas! These trucks we drive are Commercial Trucks we have CDL Lic. The “C” stands for…?
Truckers need to avoid deliveries to Dr. Lacy’s lair of a trap. But why punish the Good people of Midland over some fools cosmetic thinking……..please think before you talk DOCTOR
DO LITTLE.
James Reynolds says
you know as drivers we hold a lot of power don’t forget that. If we all decided not to drive for one day we could shut the United States down for months.
Doug Smith says
Midland, Texas ! There are nice areas of Texas, and I love Texas… but Midland is and has been a DUMP of a city for many years !
This guy has the audacity to be so disrespectful to we Truckers… maybe he and the city council should worry about cleaning their dump of a city up, and stop with disrespecting Truckers !
Michael says
After all is said and done ,the town of Midland ,Texas is profiting off of the oil and gas industry and really not trying to give back to the ones that’s moving their products. Instead we are getting profiled from the small percentage of drivers that abuse the few parking areas.Help out by building temporary lots to accommodate the drivers and go after the oil and gas companies to assist your precious little town. We driver’s are just trying to make an honest living unlike yourself and hoarding all profits to better your lifestyle….And we really wonder where our problems really start…”BAD POLITICS” !!
Bobby Gies says
He who turns the wheel can stop the wheel let them starve we hold all the power lets use it
Ronald Clark says
Shut the town down my brothers !! Watch them squirm when they have no food or gas or medicines get low and if the town catches on fire then its that idiots fault and not us !!!
JUST DO IT !!!
Ronald Clark says
No diesel for fire trucks should fix them idiots !!
No gas for cops !!
JUST DO IT !!!!
Ronald Clark says
Remember back in the late seventies when owner operators shut down ?? I believe that scared them pretty good !
I was driving for Union company then ,Jones Motor Freight and some of our windshields got busted out going under overpasses but we kept going and it helped O.O.s!! At least i think it did . We are mre in charge then you think drivers so hang in there ! Look around at all the new trucks and trailers and better pay and benefits plus pets and human riders ! Its getting much better . Next thing i want is a or my Harley Davidson or other attached to truck for relaxation riding off hours ! Alot of this has been unheard of in the past . Jones motor freight would fire your but in a heartbeat if you got caught with a rider just like other companies . Thats all changed and we need to hold out for more !!😎
Ronald Clark says
Remember back in the late seventies when owner operators shut down ?? I believe that scared them pretty good !
I was driving for Union company then ,Jones Motor Freight and some of our windshields got busted out going under overpasses but we kept going and it helped O.O.s!! At least i think it did .
Ronald Clark says
And our wonderful government decided to de-regulate trucking and screwed it all up just like they did to the airlines and railroads !!
Now our dumb ass government is trying to regulate trucking again and i already knew how this was going to happen ! E.L.D.s are not the answer ! Try stopping shippers and receivers from making drivers wait 4 or 5 or more hours to get loaded or unloaded ! This would do better i think.
Think about it ,you come out of your sleeper and start your day and go to shipper to get loaded and the load isn’t ready so you can’t go back to sleep and 5 or more hours later you are loaded and ezpected to drive 10 hours and forced to take an hour lunch and then its 11 hours to get there !! And they wonder why drivers are wrecking !! Bring back paper logs or change the E.L.D. funtions and rules . We need drivers making laws in Washington and not penguins insuits that are too damn old to even climb into a truck let alone knowing anything about trucking . You can’t learn everything in college ! I call them COLLEGE IDIOTS !!!!
Ronald Clark says
COLLEGE IDIOTS think they can replace human drivers with autonomous trucks . I dought it very much !!Look what happened with Uber autonomous cars !! People will die just like when Uber hit someone and they shut down .
Ronald Clark says
And heres my best idea yet i think ! Build new highway system just for trucks and let the four wheelers kill each other
and truck driving will improve and attract more drivers abd then these town idiots can stop complaining about trucks tearing up their streets !!
Trump can build truck lanes that are more for heavy vehicles and it will last and the car roads will last longer without constant repairs !!
Ronald Clark says
Maybe i should talk to President Trump personally with my ideas
or maybe run for office myself !!
I quit school in the yenth grade and i have a lot more smarts and common sense then a lot of the Penguins in office now !!
Dora Williamson says
I would like to ask her where she thinks every thing she owns or ever will own come from let all the trucks stop coming to Midland for just 3 days she would be begging then
DWY says
Can’t issue a citation on a private lot. How many of you guys remember Sam Walton saying ” Truckers and TV’s will always have a place to park at my stores” Too bad drivers can’t band together and boycott Midland TX. Let the jerkoff city councilman get his tampons out of town.
David Hostetler says
If you cut out parking then they have no choice but to drive. Then Councilman Dumbbell can tour all the crash sites the city will have……
John says
Human waste is unacceptable discarded in public. I think the problem is ignorance of just how to deal with the problem of urine. 1. Get a gallon jug with a lid. 2. Use it inside your truck in private. 3. Put the lid on so it desn’t stink up the inside of your truck. 4. Find a safe and legal space to dispose of your waste. Carry in a discrete bag, (you don’t want someone seeing you carrying your pee!) pour it in the toilet. Take the empty jug back to your truck for future use. Carry some Clorox wipes for sanitizing the spout of the jug. Easy peezy; pun intended.
Nick says
Ok noone likes piss bottles lying around so wtf are we suppose to do drink it, build more facilities so drivers can brush thier teeth and take a piss or shit like a human bieng. If your not into most truck stops by 2pm you aint parking there, I never leave trash and never leave piss bottles but I have cooled my tires . Is that a crime now. No bathroom in sight whats a man sapposed to do carry your piss f that .
Sandra Irwin says
That idiot doesn’t know which side of the bread has the butter on it.
Powder River says
This is the start of societal breakdown. The elitist thinking by snotty City Councils is why places such as LA, San Francisco, Seattle etc are drug ridden havens for homeless, feces, and illegals who do more damage to infrastructure; and yet pay no taxes add nothing to the economy now because some city council memeber cant stand the sight of trucks and thinks it’s terrible feels they need to be fined and park elsewhere in a COMMERCIAL area is ridiculous. So tell me if their was was no economic boom and no taxes to collect how would municipality’s have any money? Retards all of them.
Jerry Parker says
Midland, Texas is home to over 20 trucking companies paying taxes to that “great city.” Maybe it’s time for them to relocate elsewhere and take their tax revenue with them.
Jerry says
Take the councilmans name and post it on Facebook along with his stupidity, and let it go virally against him. We know how that can be!!
Roger holcomb says
Tell mr lacy to have them all leave his town and see what happens to it.
Dannyboy68 says
That councilman and his oil stinking and I do mean stinking, City are getting ridiculously rich off of the booming fracking Trucking that’s going on over there lately….. you would think he’d be a little bit more careful with his choice of words and punitive action, just because of a handful of truckers that are just there for the season and park wherever they feel they can. But then again how I wish truckers would band together and boycott cities who lash out unjustly like this…
Super trucker says
And the Californians have begun changing texas like everywhere else they move too in droves
Big country says
The city needs to make a spot for parking. They could even change for it. Have it fenced and patrols to help with safety. Issuing a ticket is going to make certain businesses move out of the city limits. “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”
Montiya Thomas says
All trucks should not pick up or deliver fright to Midland, Tx. And maybe the councilman and the town will respect tired drivers who’s under paid, running against the edl clock, and drivers that have no respect for a 80,000 pound vehicle that have to maneuver slow when entering a populated city. Better yet raise the rates on all freight going there, and maybe they will leave the hardest working man in America alone to have a restroom stop, eat, sleep, or just take a walk to loosen up all the stiff joints from driving. Shame on you councilman, your greed offends America and what we stand for.
Jeff says
Any driver posting on here ever throw out a piss bottle?
Red says
Congratulations Mr. Councilman! I’ve never seen a politician tank his career so fast! You did an outstanding job pissing off any future voters or campaign contributors. Enjoy being a Midland, TX councilman while it lasts because that’s as far as you’re going ‘ol bud. On the bright side, maybe some trucking company will hire you as a driver after this career is over, and you can park your truck only in places that will “look good”
Michael says
Fine the carriers, and either the practice of running maxim hours on drivers, or policy of running off drivers at the delivery/pick up will change. City’s go out of their way to give tax incentives for “business friendly environments” and yet abuse the individual drivers for things for the most part are out of their control. Fine the drivers and there will be fewer drivers.
Mad about it says
Crook brings in more $ to the city by issuing fines to the working man that already brings so much $ to his city, just so that later he can put in for his pay raise, trips, meals, functions, and so forth on the dime of truckers. Then say he actually did something for the city when all he did was take something from the trucker’s family. Too bad it’s not another time where another justice could be issued for the injustice being done to the working man truck driver oil field or OTR.
Deborah says
I have a Ranch in North Texas, I feel qaulified to have an opinion as a Texan and Owner/Operator. The councilman in Midland has disgraced the people that work hard , drive long hours away from home and family,. If it wasn’t for us Truck Drivers “If you bought it a trucker brought it”. Midland is a filthy dirty place, junk, junk trailers, low class Councelman who has no regard for the drivers safety ! Or FMCSA regulations. The best thing to happen to Midland would be for the oil to dry up , then they wouldn’t have to worry about the trucks coming in and out,
Let the town dry up.
As a retired Military Officer he has overstepped insult. Maybe we shouldn’t fight to protect Midland! When it won’t protect giving safe harbor to those that serve the town, support it financially. Walmart has always been a supportive of the hard work we do, giving us shelter, helps us follow Federal Laws if we are out of hours need our break to drive safely. As a female driver you rather see me on a road or ramp?
Midland has so much money from the oil it has no right to wine about infrastructure, they are all lazy out there. That would create jobs , clean up your mess.
Sorry I served for you , that’s not the Texas I know!
Jumel says
Instead of pushing for an ordinance to prohibit Trucks from parking in commercial lots, build more truck lots. Everyone knows Midland a big Oilfield town with nothing but trucks. This council man has no clue about a truckers life.
Jim says
Let them starve stop all deliveries,they want the merchandise but treat drivers and trucks like shit see how they like wiping there behinds with leaves when they run out of toilet paper bet they wouldn’t have a problem if all the drivers and trucks were illegal from Mexico
Korey walter says
Its time to show Midland Texas a trucker strike. We as drivera should avoid this town all together no deliveries of any kind and veing this council and city to their knees. This is a dangerous and thankless job but without drivers America stops its time we remind them af that
Chris says
City wouldn’t be doing so well without us trucks. FO Lacy!!!
Christina Basich says
No problem. No trucker should deliver anything to Midland, Texas. That will solve his problem. The people of Midland can thank him, too, when their shelves are bare.
Billy jones says
So I guess we are not allowed to go to Walmart shopping for supplies? What’s disgusting to me is the fact this councilman actually used this word to describe seeing a truck. Selfrighteous politicians are disgusting thing in the world.
Karen says
As a trucker…. Kiss my grits you ungrateful twit!! Who do you think brings in your food, underwear, furniture etc? We do you ignorant idiot! Start cleaning up your community before you decide to pick on hard working truckers. Thank goodness my dad, who was a Dr and a golf pro, wasn’t a snob like you. He was proud that his daughter gave her service to her country. That’s what we do… We SERVE our country. Proud to be a American trucker!
Anthony says
That city prick is a prick… you are a pos to society. I wont drive my truck through your pos town and I hope all other drivers stop as well..
Rooster says
Now i wounder how many more educated idiots across american cities will play follow the leader with this. They also need to make the local truck park somewhere besides the truck stops. Its hard enough to find parking as it is when you get to midland 90% of trucks at truck stops are locals.
courtneycommercial says
then the city should put in specified areas for these truckers to lay over while loading and unloading. Or I guess Lacey is gong to send people out to the truck stops to bring the goods in to Walmart and so forth? How dumb they are in a commercial parking lot of a store they delivered too taking there break or maybe they should drive tired and cause accidents in his beautiful town trying to get out to safe parking.
Lee says
And why shouldn’t all fines be required to go toward providing adequate parking for large vehicles? Work toward a solution, not aggrevate a parking shortage.
Ronald Thompson says
Gotta be a California transplant! I’ve been to Midland TX. Truck Friendly till now.
Jeff Bracken says
I’ll bet my paycheck this lady is a libertard. Not just truck parking, but everything. If a libertard disagrees, they can’t debate, so they just wanna shut you down if you don’t agree with them. Isn’t this called INTOLERANCE?
SJ says
The trucking industry needs to stop delivering to cities that declare war on trucks. After a few weeks with empty grocery stores they’ll get the idea.
Diesel Diva says
I suppose the “esteemed” councilman doesn’t understand that, without trucks, he’d literally have nothing except the vast amount of stupid between his ears. That’s the ONLY thing in his disgusting little world we didn’t bring. Idiot.
Daisy says
Great city??? Lacy… I hate to break it to you like this, but your “great city” is nothing more than a gas and oil hot spot in the middle of a Texas wasteland… maybe you call it a desert, but even along the classifications of deserts I can think of a hundred other deserts that are more scenic and sport actual “great cities”…. what a laugh! I needed that!
James Lamb says
Truckers.com Confronts City Officials in Midland, TX and Olathe, KS for Allegedly Endangering the Safety of Truckers by Failing to Provide Sufficient Safe Truck Parking https://www.prweb.com/releases/truckers_com_confronts_city_officials_in_midland_tx_and_olathe_ks_for_allegedly_endangering_the_safety_of_truckers_by_failing_to_provide_sufficient_safe_truck_parking/prweb15851592.htm