Five states get $62M in federal grants for truck parking
Kentucky, Wyoming, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Illinois will add parking spots at rest areas and truck stops under new BUILD grants. Kentucky alone gets $25…
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How a felon built a 3-truck waste-hauling fleet on $6,500 a week
Debon Sims went from prison pamphlet to $65,000-a-week Amazon contract to stable waste contract. The numbers that kept him alive when the rates fell.
Truckers Against Trafficking award pays $5,000 for one call that saves a life
Nominations for the 2026 Harriet Tubman Award close August 15. Any driver, dispatcher, or travel plaza worker who helped a trafficking victim can be nominated.…
House Approves $200 Million for Truck Parking in Fiscal 2027 Bill
Federal funding would expand parking capacity nationwide. No word yet on which states get the money or when construction starts.
Trucker Path Now Lets You Reserve 50,000 Paid Parking Spots
The app that helped drivers find free parking now books paid spots at 50,000 locations.
Last-Mile Owner-Ops Gain Edge as Warehouse Space Tightens in 2026
Industrial real estate vacancy is dropping after a year of oversupply. Developers are building smaller, urban warehouses that favor box trucks and sprinters…
$200 million truck parking bill heads to House floor June 3
A fiscal 2027 transportation funding bill includes the largest single-year federal allocation for truck parking programs. Here's what it means for…
How to keep your best drivers when freight is slow and budgets are frozen
You can't hand out raises or new trucks in 2026, but you can still protect the talent you'll need when rates recover: here's what actually works.
Truck Parking Club hits 5,000 locations, what it costs owner-operators
The Chattanooga network added 1,000 spots in 81 days and now covers 49 states with 80,000 reservable spaces.