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NEWS
Independent Contractor
November 2016
Trucking And Travel Plaza
Industry Leaders Launch
‘Park My Truck’
Trucking and travel plaza leaders recently
launched a new highway safety initiative to
help professional drivers find available truck
parking.
Truck drivers who need to stop and
rest will be able to use a free mobile app
called Park My Truck to locate an available
space, according to the initiative’s leaders,
the NATSO Foundation, NATSO, Inc., the
American Trucking Associations (ATA)
and the American Transportation Research
Institute (ATRI).
“Park My Truck was developed by the
truckstop industry in conjunction with our
trucking partners based on feedback from
professional drivers and trucking companies
who often describe truck parking availability
as a critical need,” said Lisa Mullings,
the president of NATSO and the NATSO
Foundation. “The NATSO Foundation and its
allies are committed to providing America’s
truck drivers with easy, up-to-date information
regarding available truck parking. Working
together, we can advance safety on the
highways for all drivers by sharing information
and helping truck drivers more easily
find and utilize existing capacity.”
Park My Truck includes the total number
of truck parking spaces for nearly 5,000
truckstops in the United States and some rest
areas. Participants reporting available truck
parking information include independent
truckstops as well as chain locations representing
150,000 truck parking spaces.
“Finding a safe place to park is a consistent
issue for drivers in our industry,” said
ATA President and CEO Chris Spear. “While
we would love to see the number of spaces
increase, tightening state and federal highway
budgets will limit the opportunity to expand
parking capacity for the foreseeable future.
It is important we have ways to let drivers
know where the spaces currently exist, which
is why this app, developed in cooperation
with ATRI and NATSO, is so important.
Directing drivers to safe parking spaces will
give them opportunity to get the rest they
need and the off-duty time they are required
to have.”
For links to download the app, visit Park-
MyTruck.com.
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