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Where can I park the truck when I'm at home?
My driveway doesn't have enough room for something of that size. Are there parking lots availible for this?

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Truckstops, industrial areas, one of your customers, other trucking companies, truck repair facilities, shopping centers, vacant lots.
Use your imagination and ask the owner's permission.

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Also be sure that you follow all policies your company has regarding taking the truck home. If something happens to the truck, trailer, or load and it is found you were negligent in following your company's policies and procedures you could lose your job, be held liable for any damage/loss or both.
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I used to keep mine in a "secure" RV Storage place, with fence around it, barbed wire on top....and dogs turned loose in it after closing time. Hurricane Charley destroyed the place, and the owner has decided to lease the land out to someone so now I have to find another place to hide the truck.
Try RV storage places, or other storage places...might cost a buck or two, but will be more secure there than most places.So I like what I do, you don't, too bad, get over it. Get on with your life, I am.

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you are not supposed to go home.
i left an empty wagon at a place where i do business, over christmas. it only cost me $300, for the 1 mile tow job.Government Ain't YO' Friend. Nor your Servant.
A Tax Reduces Incentive & Capacity. A Regulation is also a TAX.


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Work with your company to see if they have a drop yard near you or can advise a suitable place to keep the truck parked.
When I ran OTR, I used to take a load to either Laredo or Houston and bobtail home (San Antonio). I don't have a secure place to keep a trailer parked, just a secure place at a Mini Storage facility for my tractor, but it's covered and has a place for me to plug in my refrigerator and a battery charger while I'm home. I now run local & in south Texas, but still use the storage space.Not liable for any information posted.

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If you park it anywhere you don't own the land, be damn sure you have the owners permission.
Even a truckstop will have an unattended vehicle towed if they notice it.

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Or if you live in Huntsville, AL just make sure you live on the working man's end of town and not on the money side. They don't like trucks in south Huntspatch only what we bring them. Yes It's Latin, a Dead Language
But what else would you expect from a "MadMan", a rubber biscuit perhaps.

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When I am home, I can park bob-tail on the street in front of my house. Ordinance states "no semi-trucks", so without trailer I am legal. (I checked on that before parking there). Otherwise, I can park at local grain elevators. I always get permission first.
I live in small town and know everybody so that helps a lot.Sometimes you have to dig through a lot horsesh#t to find the pony.

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Around here alot of the small towns have a special place for trucks to park. Like at a county highway yard, in some towns you can even park the whole transport on back streets, i have seen 3 or 4trucks all parked in town on the street on weekends. Seems like half the town is truck drivers. I can't bring my truck home, but if i did, i live on a farm, and could just back in off the road and park somewhere.

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If you drop your trailer in a location try and be as accomodating to the land owner.. It only takes 1 time when U drop a trailer and forget to put somthing under your dollies and it is a LOADED trailer.. you come to P/U your trailer and it has SUNK into the pavement..
Bring some wood and store it there out of the way if there isn't any available. Just don't leave it there when you drive away.. I always left some in the woods along side where I parked.. The kids sometimes got into it but I just found some more and replaced it.
Land owners "LOVE" this and it will ruin you and anyone else trying to park there ever again..
Also make sure you lock up your trailer.. Kids have a curiousity about trucks, and even if it is M/T they can get inside and do damage..
(I had some kids try to light rolls of newsprint on fire in my trailer one time.. Luckily they didn't know that rolled paper like that is almost impossible to burn.. They made a mess of the trailer and damaged some rolls..Cause I didn't lock it.. Who would steal 800 lb. rolls I thought..?)
Just maintain contact with the land owner, and respect his property.. Don't pivot turn on a HOT summer day and tear up his asphault with your trailer tandems.. Again they "LOVE" this too.
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It only takes 1 to ruin it for others, few years ago we had a few places that allowed us to park , new guy started leaving trash and used parts laying all over , eventually he abandoned an old FREIGHTLINER there thats was picked to pieces by scavengers.
I have sufficent property that allows me to park at home now sure makes things easier.

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I had a pair of 'landing pads' that were rough cut 2x3' (oak) sandwitched between 2 pieces of 3/4" plywood. They worked ok, but somewhere along the line, they disappeared.
I had my dad make me a new pair of 'landing pads' (I didn't have time).
They are large enough to spread the weight over a larger area but yet small enough to fit in 1 of my frame mounted toolboxes.
They are 12" wide, 22" long and 4.5" thick. They're made of multiple layers of 3/4" plywood that has been screwed together with deck screws (6 layers). They work pretty good.

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Follow company policy . The company I drive for had a form specifically for parking. I had to have the signiture of the landowner or truckstop manager for example. That relieved me of any liability. Although the liability was not on the manager or landowner either. It was the company liability if I had permission.
I did have two tires stolen off the trailer one time. I called dispatch and had tires replaced. They did want a police report which was no problem getting.
Try to keep it in a visible area and well lighted if possible .

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If you are away from town. Try a grain elevator.
Also. Just a hint. If you load up in the middle of no were and do not want. To drive 20 miles to the truck stop. Look for a grain elevator to weight at. Most are trade scales. They are tested.
Alot of the ones I have used were free. Some want 5 bucks. Better then driving 20 miles to find out you are over.202 N Main Street
Summerfield Il 62289
TRUCK PARKING AVAILABLE!