Freight Notes News Regional Freight Plan

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.

Recommended Posts

MAFC 35: Safety Implications of Truck Regulations: Speed Limitations and Right Lane Only Operations

The Safety Implications of Truck Regulations report is now available. This study considers two truck regulations of timely interest: truck speed limitations (speed limiter devices and differential speed limits), and truck lane restrictions (right lane only laws). Key factors related to implementation of the regulations, stakeholder opinions, summary of findings from past studies are presented […]

 

MAFC 34: Emergency Service Access Along Class I Rail Corridors

The emergency services access along Class I rail corridors report is now available. This report analyses Class I freight rail incidents in the region over the past decade by carrier and incident type, and provides an overview of emergency responder access for the region. Case study analysis focuses on nine vulnerable rural communities along major Class […]