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Jul 3, 2008

Truck stop quandary * USA - Four-hour parking limit in Virginia county

VA,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -July 2, 2008: -- OOIDA member Dennis Sullivan was minutes away from being out of hours on Monday, June 30, when he pulled in to get his scale ticket at the Pilot Travel Center in New Kent, VA... His plan was to stop and take his 10-hour break at the truck stop before heading back home to Marquand, MO, for the July Fourth holiday weekend. However, he said a sign he saw posted at the truck stop stopped him in his tracks... “There were signs posted everywhere that said there was a four-hour maximum on parking because of a county ordinance that limits the number of hours trucks can park there,” Sullivan told Land Line on Wednesday, July 2... Sullivan said he immediately went in to talk to a manager about his dilemma. The truck stop staffer told him: “I have to post the ordinance, that doesn’t mean I have to enforce it.”... While truck parking in Virginia is at a premium, Sullivan said the manager told him the New Kent County Planning Commission blocked the truck stop’s attempt to expand the number of truck parking spaces...

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