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Truck parking push not over with Jason’s Law
Following the cheers that went up around the trucking community for the “Jason’s Law” truck parking legislation’s inclusion in the MAP-21 highway bill in June, owner-operators like Overdrive reader...
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‘Killer Truckers’ TV special on re-air
If you didn’t have the opportunity to tune in to what many around the trucking industry feared would be a smear effort targeting the nation’s highway haulers, Investigate Discovery’s “Killer Truckers”...
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Jason’s Law: Five years after the passing of its namesake
Jason Rivenburg, for whom the Jason’s Law truck-parking legislation, included in the MAP-21 highway bill, is named. The days leading up to March 5, 2009, were some of the worst in Hope Rivenburg’s...
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Engagement on parking safety, availability in the wake of driver’s murder
Catch last night’s discussion on Allen Smith’s Truth About Trucking Live online radio show in the archived podcast below. Smith was joined by, among others, Ashley Boeglin, widow of Michael Boeglin,...
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Parking shortage hits the mainstream
A Wall Street Journal story last week took on the issue of the difficulties faced by truckers finding a safe parking spot in widespread congested areas around the nation. The piece, written by WSJ...
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National Coalition on Truck Parking formed, results of Jason’s Law parking...
Survey results noted that 37 U.S. states confirmed a shortage of available parking within their borders. Problems are widespread, “observed in regions with high populations and population densities,...
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Hope Rivenburg: General public ‘naive’ on truck-parking needs
For this Overdrive Radio podcast, truck-parking advocate Hope Rivenburg runs through what the current attention to truckers’ parking needs around the nation means for her as one among many who have...
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Parking: Creative approach meets small-minded resistance in Hutchins, Texas
Parking advocate Hope Rivenburg argues that more fleets should invest in parking facilities in areas where their drivers are laid over. Some drivers argue for the same, extending their thoughts to...
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Parking: ‘It’s bad all over’
The decades-old problem of truck parking was confined for years largely to congested metropolitan areas, especially on certain Eastern seaboard and California lanes. Studies now show that it has...
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Advocates stress the need for greater driver communication with state/local Metropolitan Planning Organizations on the need for better truck parking -- and AsktheTrucker.com offers an MPO directory...
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