Trucking news and briefs for Wednesday, May 3, 2023:
With truck parking a top concern among owner-operators, the people behind the popular Trucker Path app put together a snapshot of where it's most difficult for drivers to find a place to park.
Surprisingly, the most-difficult region wasn't the Northeast. Trucker Path polls its 1 million-some users every time they open the app on parking availability, and looked at where drivers most often report "no parking spaces available" the most.
The company determined the Southeast had it worst, with app users reporting no parking available 23% of the time, followed by the Northeast at 21%, South Central at 20%, the West at 19%. The North Central region had it best at 15%.
Trucker Path
Overdrive has long reported on the issues surround the public importance and basic owner-operator necessity of truck parking, from in recent months detailing local governments' efforts to block owners parking the truck on their own land and how to best advocate for parking at those local and regional government levels to the issue of whether or not smartphone apps with truck-parking utility and other availability guides actually have all the answers.
