Truckers Want More Parking to Allow for Mandatory Driver Rests

Published on July 12, 2024

Truck drivers must decide every day how they will break the law. Their choices are to illegally park on the side of the highway to rest or to look for a proper parking space and risk the consequences of driving beyond the federally mandated hours of service. The United States has a truck parking space shortage, with one parking space for every 11 trucks on the road today, according to statistics from the American Trucking Associations (ATA). “We’ve been dealing with this for at least 20 years. It just keeps getting worse, because not enough spaces are being added and there are more trucks on the road every day,” Darrin Roth, ATA vice president of highway policy told The Epoch Times....

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