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Jan 24, 2008

PARKING RIG TROUBLES * USA - Trucker ticketed in California while searching for parking spot

CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO), by Clarissa Kell-Holland -January 22, 2008: -- OOIDA member Robert Edwards of Ozark, MO, knows firsthand about the dire parking problem facing truckers who travel the nation’s highways... Edwards, a produce hauler, received a ticket last week and was placed out-of-service for being out of hours while he was looking for a place to park his rig... “I was near the end of my day, finishing my final stop for the day,” Edwards said. “There were signs clearly saying no overnight parking on city streets, so I kept going”... Instead, Edwards said he decided to “chance it” and drive until he found “suitable parking” for the next 10 hours... He said he briefly parked his rig on a ramp where he saw that other truckers had parked previously, but decided to move on after a few minutes to find another spot to park because he just didn’t feel safe there... Edwards said that’s when he made a critical mistake. He forgot there was a scale between him and the truck stop. At the scale, his logbook was inspected and he was placed out-of-service... “The rules are there to protect and to set a standard; I understand that,” he said. “It was my fault that I pushed my hours, but I feel it’s the nation’s responsibility to provide truckers with good parking”...


* Nebraska changes rest area rules to accommodate truckers’ HOS regs
NEB,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO), by Clarissa Kell-Holland -January 23, 2008: -- Most states offer some truck parking at their public rest areas; however, it’s the limit on the number of hours truckers can park there that often causes a quandary for drivers... Recently, Nebraska officials recognized the dilemma drivers face when federal law requires them to rest for 10 hours, but parking rules say they must move on after eight hours. The state officials changed the parking maximum from eight hours to 10 hours to match the federal HOS rules... Nebraska Traffic Engineer Dan Waddle told the change was made so that truckers wouldn’t have to move during their 10-hour rest period... Nebraska currently has 24 rest areas and 265 truck parking spots. Waddle said he realizes the state’s rest areas’ truck parking spaces are filled “to capacity” every night...

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Dec 11, 2007

Parking Ordinance * USA - OOIDA urges truckers to weigh in on proposed one

“I have heard another trucker use this term that I think is fitting: ‘It’s a shame that I have to hide what I do.’ ”

nm,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -December 7, 2007: -- Truck driver Toby Padilla lived in Rio Rancho, NM, for more than 21 years without any problems until two years ago when he and his family moved into their new home on a 1.5-acre lot, where he also started parking his gravel truck... Padilla said that’s when the trouble began... He was arrested and taken to jail after a neighbor complained that he was allegedly “conducting business and storing equipment” because he had his truck and a 39-foot flatbed trailer parked on his property. Two citations were supposedly mailed to his home, but Padilla said they were mailed to the wrong address... The charges were later dropped...

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