Truck Parking Survey on Horizon for 2024
The tragedy of Jason Rivenburg is one that is hard to stomach. The abridged version for the faint of heart is that he was robbed and murdered in 2009 after parking his truck in an unsafe location due to a lack of proper truck parking. Three years after that fateful day, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has followed Jason’s Law, which requires a truck parking survey every handful of years to see what can be done to relieve the problem. There was one in 2013, 2015, and 2019, and now there will be one in 2024.
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By now it is highly likely that you have heard or experienced the statistics: over ten trucks for every qualified commercial vehicle parking spot, truckers taking an hour every day to find a proper parking spot, the list goes on. Over the years both the public and private sectors have been making strides in improving the problem of truck parking; this survey will be an indicator of how much progress has been made in the past five years.
“Most projects identified with recent awards will take a few years to build,” says an FHWA representative. “However, once projects are completed, we hope to see these investments result in improved parking access and safety for drivers through an increase in the number of public truck parking spots.”
An increase in truck parking spots not only has safety implications, but economic ones as well. With estimates of operating a truck coming in at just over ninety dollars per hour, the industry loses at least $100 million every day as a conservative estimate.
Conclusion
If you find yourself being asked by the FHWA this year about your truck parking experiences, we implore you to answer it honestly. Getting this data out there and to the public is imperative to resolving the problem. Though the trucking industry has made significant strides in the past few yearsinh bringing attention to this issue, there is still a long way to go before the number of commercial vehicle parking spaces reaches an acceptable and safe level.
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