Illegal parking creates accidents | Sunday Rant | Trucking Answers
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2023
- Recently truckers have been speaking out about some accidents and lack of overall truck parking. I will tell the truth about this in the Sunday Rant. We don't get a pass on this just because we deliver everything in America. If you park somewhere unsafe that is on you, not the government. You don't get a pass on this just because of elogs. We need to stop making excuses for being unsafe and but this burden where it belongs which is on the trucking companies. Stop early and make them find you a place to park their truck.
Mark@Truckinganswersnation.com
If driver’s would stop trashing parking lots with pee bottles and poop bags we would have more parking
Trash has very little to do with parking issues. If picking up trash helps I’m willing to wake-up 20 minute early and collect all pee bottles.
Every town has zoning ordinances and businesses can’t allow their property to be used other than what it’s intended for, businesses like Walmart gets up to $50k fines in some cities for allowing trucks to be parked in car lots.
@@matusala8322 Has everything to do with it,Mark just did a video about a grocery store in Indiana that no longer lets trucks park there for the exact reasons I stated.If you drive a truck you must be blind not to see all the crap drivers throw on the ground
I get angry at the piss bottles lining the side of the highway. Take better care of your surroundings drivers!
I actually do agree with the parking issue and drivers not parking safely. I plan out my day and even the next hour when I am getting close to my planned destination. Having my truck over the line and in the travel lanes is never an acceptable option.
Urine bottles getting littered in Oregon got so bad in the late 90’s they passed a new law fining a person 1K if caught throwing it on the ground at the time the law passed the state said it cost $25.00 per urine bottle to dispose of because it’s considered biological waste.
have you seen how some of these drivers look?
One of the biggest issues with the ramp parking is people think they need to leave their lights on. I was taught when I first started driving if you park on the side of the road to turn off your lights because at night people follow the light. If the company is giving you a ridiculous timeline tell them you need some more time to get the load there reschedule appointments whatever you need to do.
If you park anywhere and don’t have your marker lights on, you’re a fucking idiot
I haven't parked on a shoulder, of a ramp at that , since 1999 if I remember right
Running out your 11 hrs and stopping on a ramp is really dangerous.
Worst I’ve seen is parking 🅿️ in the curve of the Loves. Ok you’re in the curve, you’re in the street and no lights and on a hill.
This industry does not care about your well-being. After 5 years of driving, have earned Creative parking degree.
It’s funny, parking issues are never an issue if you are diligent with your route planning.
Route planning is just as important as fueling, but it is becoming a lost art.
My company already has a policy saying that you must park in a "Safe Haven". Which means in a parking spot. Not on the shoulder, ramps, etc... Then they'll tell you to pre-trip your drive better, to include your stops. Knowing that truck stops fill up early means you plan for, not nearly enough parking.
Please make a video discussing CR england cutting pay to its drivers cause the owners are greedy a holes
See it all the time idiots will park 1 2 feet over the line of traffic
This will keep happening until they create more parking they should build rest areas 200+ spots with clean bathrooms in every state
Wait till y'all gat delayed in traffic and then a shipper then at the receiver then it's 2:00am your out of hours all truck stops are full yor day is now 14hrs long your now in a blizzard...😂
Need to get rid of the eight hour break, do need more truck parking. And last but not least, driver's need to clean up their act.dont trash the place that you have parked.
When I did OTR in the early 90's, there was ALWAYS somewhere to park. I don't know exactly what happened after I went to "turn" style job. I agree that there is not enough enough parking and 7 times the amount of trucks now. Why isn't the government doing something by now?
First, there's NO reason to park on an exit ramp, where people are exiting the highway at speed. They should make that illegal in all 50 states.
Second, there's absolutely NO F**KING REASON anyone should be parked on the side of the interstate. Short of a blown steer tire, or catastrophic engine failure. That should be an automatic license suspension.
Pete "no Parking" Buttigieg says:
Parking for EV trucks only.
Well shoot. Truckers park in places they shouldn't because really. Where are they going to go? I remember team trucking down near Alburqueque NM. Trying to stop at a pretty sizeable truck stop. But every inch of that was jam packed. Where are you supposed to go? No matter where you stop you're going to be in the way. Dispatchers can't do crap about it. Mind you it was for a quick change of the drivers but still.
I think it goes all the way back to their child hood and they would just leave their bikes blocking the door to a 7 / 11 or Library or Dari Queen Or comic book store the problem has been with them since child hood a lifetime of negligent living
A lowly day cab driver lecturing real truckers about parking.
The company I currently am working for they compensate us fairly and schedule so we only drive an average of 8 hours a day. Thankfully, like you, Mark, I pretty much run the same areas all the time so I know where to park.
Drivers who are looking for parking as their clocks are running out, have completely failed to plan. Exactly Mark, hours of service are maximums they do not have to be the norm.
This is obviously a case by case basis. If you are safely parked off the shoulder of an on ramp you are about as much to blame for an accident as a telephone poll or a bridge abutment
Part of good trip planning, is to plan when and where you will take your breaks. If you feel you'll be taking your breaks after hours, then reserve parking, if you have to. Find out if shippers/receivers allow overnight parking. Use Google maps/satellite view to see if Walmarts/large lots allow truck parking. Use trucker apps to find parking. We have more tools now, than before. Use them.
You’re just another fucking idiot bro what happens when I got a 2 AM delivery and they happen to take five hours and kill my clock should I just keep driving that’s what personal conveyance is for. How long should I drive on personal conveyance till I find a proper parking spot fucking company drivers are a fucking joke.
Sometimes I feel safer on a ON ramp shoulder than at a rest stop or fuel stop
I've been saying it for years drivers (employees ) need to dump their parking problems ($$$) in their company's lap.
Uh no. You can't spin it back to the company. They'll blame the driver with "you should have planned better". You know it, and I know it. Because they do it non stop.
Yeah...we ALL know, a company will throw THEIR OWN drivers under the bus. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
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Often, there are lazy drivers that will pull off to the shoulder of the rest area exit ramp before they have even determined if there are any slots available to park in.
I think we need to stop working as otr truckers if we ten years into the game and we don't have a house we paying off and a car cause what ur doing is your making everyone else rich
Morale of story
MAINTAIN YOUR LANE
You mean the driver did not do a post trip? Shocking. He would’ve knew where his trailer was.
Mark, Again, A Law should be passed that the only person that can make appointment times is the Driver. Problems Solved.
Anything else violates FMCSA Rule # 390.6, NO EXCEPTIONS/STRICTLY ENFORCED.
Then who going to unload or load your trailer??
Your appointments are based on available employees to unload the freight and as a driver you have no access to warehouse operations.
@@matusala8322 LOL 😂, OMG 😳 I’m so glad I’ve retired!!!
@@matusala8322 Available? Why then do driver wait and pay lumpers? Those are independents. Need a rule: Open dock immediate unload. It does not take 6 hours to unload a 53' trailer
Uh where do want Drivers to "Park" to put this request in writing? This is a no win decision, NO MATTER the solution. It's never going to be fixed. Been out here 12yrs, it's getting worse not better. Stopping, finding a place to park to harass your dispatch over this? That's your solution? Parking in a lane of travel is a no no in every state. Parking on shoulders on ramps, like the Police do in some areas is permitted. Running into a Rest Area at high speed, yes ramp speed is posted is a recipe for disaster. Dispatch at 0200am is non existent at most companies. Mark you are not totally wrong but you are further wrong than right. Get Foreign Drivers off our Roads might help. Can not read, speak or comprehend English means ROAD WARNINGS are useless. Check the Accident Stats on that.
If sum1 drivers where to use their head when parking, like leave there running lights ON.
A good portion of these incidents more than likely be avoided all together.
If you are tired and haft to park, in a area where your not able to see your own truck and or trailer. Put your running lights on. A ounce of prevention goese a long way.
I see otr morons parked on the sholder of the ohio turnpike/ indiana toll rd all the time