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Truck parking where?

Ernie Perry 

With continuing truck parking shortages and increasing safety concerns for truck parking security, one company is looking to convert drive-in movie theaters to paid truck parking at $26 a day. See the link below for the full article.

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/theaters-truck-parking

For more on truck parking,  see the MAFC report on using vacant urban land for truck parking at https://midamericafreight.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MAFC21-Identification-of-Urban-Truck-Parking-Locations.pdf.

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