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Truck dispatchers and drivers running on one of the nation’s busiest freight routes, Interstate 81, may soon be able to use their smart phones to get details on where there’s a parking space or even an accident ahead.

Truckers from around the country are opposing a local Georgia ordinance that limits truck parking on city parking lots, the (Macon, Ga.) Telegraph reported.

The U.S. Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Trucking Industry Mobility and Technology Coalition, is sponsoring a free webinar Dec. 6 on the shortage of truck parking.

Truckers traveling on Connecticut interstates are facing the loss of scarce parking spots due to planned state rest stop closings.

About $20 million in federal highway money would be available to add parking spaces for truck drivers needing rest, under legislation introduced in the House Wednesday

Five trucking industry associations filed comments recently opposing a plan to require motor carriers to buy permits to park in Washington, D.C.

The newly remodeled service center on Interstate 95 in Delaware has reopened with 50 truck parking spaces equipped with new electrification hook-up stations for auxiliary power units and Internet access.

Five states received federal grants totaling $6 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation and Secretary Ray LaHood in June with the purpose of easing truck parking shortages on U.S. interstates.