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Truck Parking ClubAims for 10,000 New Parking Lots in 2026
Growing Company Stresses Safety and Supply Chain Efficiency
The 1978 International Transtar II started its life inFort Wayne, Ind.
It worked in a gravel quarry inMuncie, Ind., idled for long time in a barn and then hauled grain before ultimately ending up in a garage at theTruck Parking Clubheadquarters inRinggold, Ga. Its odometer reads roughly 133,000 miles — a rarity when some truck drivers can go 100,000 miles in a single year.
WhenChad Keegandrove it fromMuncieto his house inDefiance, Ohio, that was the first time it had been on the interstate since 1978, he said.
"This is like a diamond in the rough" said Keegan, who is restoring the vehicle and drove it toGeorgiafromOhio. "You can't find trucks like this."
The big rig will soon be decked out inTruck Parking Clubregalia, and it will accompany employees on their trips to trade shows and conferences.Reed Loustalot, the chief marketing officer forTruck Parking Club, recently moved a desk to a loft overseeing the garage so he can "take it all in."
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"We've literally wanted to do this since the beginning of the company," Loustalot said during a tour of the building.
Truck Parking Clubwent to about 70 events last year, Loustalot said, and hands out items like shirts, socks, dip trays and fake money that contains a promo code to save $25 on truck parking. The company aims to make parking easier for drivers — a problem that Loustalot said has broad implications for safety and the supply chain.
A shortage of spots means truckers often have to resort to stationing their vehicles along the sides of highways. Truckers must also comply with mandated limits on the consecutive number of hours they can drive, and a lack of available parking means they can't strategically maximize their time on the road — a priority in an industry in which workers are paid by the mile, Loustalot said.
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Started in 2022,Truck Parking Clubhas a goal of establishing 10,000 new truck parking lots in 2026, an increase from the approximately 3,800 it now has in operation across 49 states. The company has done this by enabling property owners to earn money off vacant parcels by making them available as parking spaces.
The company has an onboarding team that makes sure the location is suitable for a parking lot.
"That team is entirely former truckers," Loustalot said. "They've all parked trucks thousands of times."
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Trucks need to be able to safely get in and out of the property without hitting anything, and the ground must be stable enough to support the full weight of a vehicle, Loustalot said. The company's app lists amenities at each site like cameras, full-time secured gates and whether there are restaurants in the area.
Some locations have room for one truck and others for 400. One of the company's lots is situated at its clubhouse at129 Christian RoadinRinggoldand contains about 48 spaces. A red, black and yellow sign emblazoned withTruck Parking Club'sname blares at motorists as they pass by onInterstate 75.
"I actually stood out here one day for probably 10 minutes and counted," Loustalot said. "I averaged the amount of trucks per minute that passes here, and I bet there's 15,000 to 20,000 trucks per day in a 24-hour period that pass here."
Government officials have tried to garner support for more taxpayer funded truck parking, but it can be incredibly expensive, Loustalot said. According toTruck Parking Club, theU.S. Department of Transportationrecently invested $180 million to add more than 900 new spaces along Florida's Interstate 4corridor — or about $200,000 per space.
"You spend $50 million, and you're not getting very many spaces," he said.
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Every working day, there are 2.4 million trucks across the country in need of a place to park for their federally mandated 10-hour break, according toTruck Parking Club. However, there are only about 700,000 official parking spaces provided by the market, which leaves about 1.7 million drivers resorting to alternate locations like highway ramps, the shoulders of busy roads or abandoned lots.
Loustalot said the company hired an economist to independently produce a report on the problem to arrive at his own numbers. Those figures are based on a holistic understanding of the number of trucks on the road that need parking versus the number of spaces supplied by the market, he said.
