American
Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has ranked “Managing Critical Truck
Parking” as the most important research topic in response to the growing
criticality of truck parking issues.
Some of
the commonly themes about parking-related issues were reported by truck drivers
in the survey such as:
·
Time-of-day Impacts
About 61.6 percent of truck drivers reporting that time-of-day
affect truck-parking availability. They face difficulty in finding available
parking facilities in specified time between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
·
Reserved Parking
Although the reserved parking effectively increases parking
supply, but mostly, truckers are unwilling to park their trucks at paid
reservation system if there are available of free spots. They will try to avoid
it even the driving time if exhausted.
·
Public Rest Areas
The truckers was forced to
drive on road and volatile HOS regulations due to the parking time limits at public
rest areas which range between two and ten hours.
·
Regional Issues and
Urban Locations
About 20.1% truck drivers encounter the challenge in finding
truck parking in specific regions as well as urban areas (8.1%).
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Moreover, you can prevent the low bridges that could crash
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truck speed exceeds the set speed limit.
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get prepared in advance and plan the route accordingly.
Roadway is unpredictable workplace for truckers. Plan you
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