You’re not telling the full story.
Do you think private property owners in the US should be able to rent out their real estate?
Truck Parking Club isn’t “taking” anything away from drivers. It’s about keeping parking open and available when truck stops and other property owners are under real pressure to maintain expensive lots. If a site can’t cover maintenance, taxes, insurance, and liability the “free” parking disappears entirely, and that helps nobody.
Truck Parking Club works with truck stops because the alternative is often fewer usable spaces, not more. When a truck stop owner makes the business decision to list spaces with us, they often say they are doing so because drivers frequently buy fuel/food/showers at nearby locations and spend no money at their location, defeating the whole purpose of offering free parking.
They want to give their CUSTOMERS free parking. As a result, we make it easy for them to offer purchase incentives like fuel discounts and store-based parking rewards so drivers get parking for free. ~80% of our truck stop spaces are free with purchase.
This has created a world where a lot of the new truck stops actually build fewer truck parking spaces because it doesn’t make financial sense to build and maintain the spaces.
We’ve created over 50,000 spaces from never publicly available sources, like warehouses, trucking terminals, self storage facilities, and more. Every driver that parks at one of these locations instead of a truck stop opens up parking at the truck stop, reducing the shortage.
Our goal is simple: create more options for drivers and carriers, not fewer. We are very much executing on that.
That’s why we have safely, legally and efficiently parked 100K’s of drivers at our over 5,000 locations across 49 states.
Thank you for your attention to this very important matter.
Free parking for truckers at truck stops is disappearing in America
A company called Truck Parking Club launched an app that lets property owners of truck stops, warehouses and lots monetize their parking spots for truckers via reservations
Truckers must pay hourly, daily, weekly or even monthly for a spot to sleep or rest
The Co-founder and CEO is a man named Evan Shelley. He worked in real estate doing commercial deals and land flips before shifting to trucking parking
People like this are awful. Monetizing something our essential workers literally need to sleep at that’s always been free. This lot has been free for 50 years and now it’s paid