Truck parking capacity problem worsens for drivers

Truck parking capacity problem worsens for drivers

Industry stakeholders say it will take federal leadership and funding to solve the truck parking capacity shortage.

When commercial truckers can’t find a place to park it’s a safety problem for everyone on the road. For more than a decade, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) has been talking about the truck driver parking shortage and ways to address it, but inadequate truck parking capacity remains a major problem in every state and region across the U.S.