Truck Drivers need more parking or STOP the fines! Stop towing and harassing us!

Recent signers:
Geoffrey Jacobs and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

I also have another petition at:

Ban foreign truck drivers 

https://chng.it/BX8MGvKkFB

As well as:

www.change.org/ChangeThe14hourRule 

As well as: 

www.change.org/NationalCarryForTruckers 

Stop the FMCSA:

www.change.org/StopTheFMCSA 

Truck Drivers are being FINED for parking on the ramps of highways, or outside along a rest area off the highways. Since Covid, rest areas are being closed and blocked off causing even more of a problem than ever before for parking. Open the rest area parking lots that were closed, just for parking would be better than issuing a driver a FINE. Some states are installing no parking signs and poles to block semis from parking on ramps. Ultimately, ever since ELD logs took place parking has been a major issue. 

Walmart has been installing clearances and bumpers to prevent semis from entering. They have also been known to tow away and give a ticket if you park there. Some Walmart stores will allow you to come but only to shop and have to immediately leave. Also, if you don't finish your day by 12 to 2pm to get to a truck stop you won't find parking, even $30 a day parking is full most places now. You can't always stop your day at these times, again because of shippers and receivers taking forever to load or unload us. Shippers and recievers used to ALL as a whole offer overnight parking and very seldom do they today. This could also help ease parking issues as well as the terrible ELD logs FMCSA so mistakenly started. 

I'm calling out to police officers, you know and admitted many times you understand what truckers are going through and see we don't have enough parking, yet will still issue a FINE hurting our license and putting our livelihood at risk but also leaving America with one less driver if something happens to our license. To be woken up on our sleep time which could be dangerous to wake us and make us move, and where are you having us move? If we could have made it clock wise or found safer parking trust me we would have done it. Last thing a truck driver wants or needs is to be woken up and hit with a FINE. PLEASE HELP US like we helped support you, police officers. Stop the fines against truckers when it comes to parking situations. I know you have better things to do like cleaning up the streets with TONS of criminals taking over than to bother a hard working trucker who brings America their food and supplies. 

America, we can do better for our truck drivers. Please unite and come together so after a long day a trucker can simply just get some sleep knowing they won't be bothered. If they are on the side of a highway they at least know they will no longer be punished and FINED. 

Small box trucks, and bobtails need to double up together in a spot, taking one large spot is ridiculous. Rv and everyone else parking in semi spots please sign because the government isn't accounting for all these others parking in these spots they think we have enough parking when it's not just semis parking in these spots anymore. 

I have a TikTok of videos of the long miles and miles of us parking along the highway or rest areas. 

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Lanette LeePetition StarterHauling for my country

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Recent signers:
Geoffrey Jacobs and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

I also have another petition at:

Ban foreign truck drivers 

https://chng.it/BX8MGvKkFB

As well as:

www.change.org/ChangeThe14hourRule 

As well as: 

www.change.org/NationalCarryForTruckers 

Stop the FMCSA:

www.change.org/StopTheFMCSA 

Truck Drivers are being FINED for parking on the ramps of highways, or outside along a rest area off the highways. Since Covid, rest areas are being closed and blocked off causing even more of a problem than ever before for parking. Open the rest area parking lots that were closed, just for parking would be better than issuing a driver a FINE. Some states are installing no parking signs and poles to block semis from parking on ramps. Ultimately, ever since ELD logs took place parking has been a major issue. 

Walmart has been installing clearances and bumpers to prevent semis from entering. They have also been known to tow away and give a ticket if you park there. Some Walmart stores will allow you to come but only to shop and have to immediately leave. Also, if you don't finish your day by 12 to 2pm to get to a truck stop you won't find parking, even $30 a day parking is full most places now. You can't always stop your day at these times, again because of shippers and receivers taking forever to load or unload us. Shippers and recievers used to ALL as a whole offer overnight parking and very seldom do they today. This could also help ease parking issues as well as the terrible ELD logs FMCSA so mistakenly started. 

I'm calling out to police officers, you know and admitted many times you understand what truckers are going through and see we don't have enough parking, yet will still issue a FINE hurting our license and putting our livelihood at risk but also leaving America with one less driver if something happens to our license. To be woken up on our sleep time which could be dangerous to wake us and make us move, and where are you having us move? If we could have made it clock wise or found safer parking trust me we would have done it. Last thing a truck driver wants or needs is to be woken up and hit with a FINE. PLEASE HELP US like we helped support you, police officers. Stop the fines against truckers when it comes to parking situations. I know you have better things to do like cleaning up the streets with TONS of criminals taking over than to bother a hard working trucker who brings America their food and supplies. 

America, we can do better for our truck drivers. Please unite and come together so after a long day a trucker can simply just get some sleep knowing they won't be bothered. If they are on the side of a highway they at least know they will no longer be punished and FINED. 

Small box trucks, and bobtails need to double up together in a spot, taking one large spot is ridiculous. Rv and everyone else parking in semi spots please sign because the government isn't accounting for all these others parking in these spots they think we have enough parking when it's not just semis parking in these spots anymore. 

I have a TikTok of videos of the long miles and miles of us parking along the highway or rest areas. 

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Lanette LeePetition StarterHauling for my country

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Lauren Boebert
Former U.S. House of Representatives - Colorado 3rd Congressional District

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