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worldisnotenough · #11 03-03-2008, 09:14 PM

I have spent many a night searching for a parking spot for ten hours while in a wal-mart parking lot. Oh, and when I am done I go shopping too! :P

Windwalker · #12 03-03-2008, 10:26 PM

The only state I know of that does not have a problem with parking on an "on" ramp is NM. At least that was the case about two years ago.

I've heard other drivers complain about the "EIGHT DOLLAR WAKE UP CALL" in OH. I saw one driver in IN have a ticket for over $470, and I'm told that the fine in IN goes up for each time a truck from the same company is ticketed there. I know that AK is dead set against parking on ramps.

Plan ahead and park free.

chuck3507 · #13 03-03-2008, 11:35 PM

I don't think it is a big deal personally. I do not do it myself but as long as your on the other side of the white line I won't hit you and all is well.

GMAN · #14 03-04-2008, 01:15 AM

I try to plan ahead as to where I will stop for the night. It avoids a lot of problems when I get tired. With some planning you can usually avoid such things as on/off ramp parking. Getting a ticket on a ramp is an offense some companies will terminate a driver.

Soladad · #15 03-04-2008, 04:30 AM

To the best of my knowledge the murder of a trucker parked on an on ramp near Wausau, Wisconsin about 5 years ago still has not been solved. Just not a safe way to sleep when there is truck stops or rest areas around.

Windwalker · #16 03-04-2008, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Soladad

To the best of my knowledge the murder of a trucker parked on an on ramp near Wausau, Wisconsin about 5 years ago still has not been solved. Just not a safe way to sleep when there is truck stops or rest areas around.

I didn't realize that was that long ago now. The driver normally parked on that ramp, then one day he was found shot to death. It was in an area that I would not have been afraid to leave my windows open, much less doors unlocked. If I were to have parked on a ramp, that would have been one that I would have seriously considered. They are no closer to finding his killer today than they were a week after he was killed.

I didn't realize that was known all the way down in TX.

bandits44x · #17 03-04-2008, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Ford95

Your fellow driver was right, VA has been cracking down hard on drivers who stop on the shoulder at rest areas or ramps to sleep after some nasty crashes in the last year. All ramps in VA are off limits to sleep. You may stop for a few minutes to do whatever, but you cannot sleep there.

Doesn't matter what everyone else does. DOT will catch up eventually. Some DOT officers here understand that your out of hours and will give you a break if it's your first time in VA that your being warned. They will give you the "rules" of what time you need to get moving by in order to avoid a ticket. Others will not, they will ticket you without mercy. Simply put, get off the interstate, plenty of safe places to park off of it.

Where in VA were you?

I was on the Shenandoh Caverns exit off of I-81 North...I'm glad my fellow driver brought this to my attention. I'm not goin to park on the shoulder anymore, I don't want that big ass fine!...or get fired!
Thanks for all your help everyone.

Soladad · #18 03-04-2008, 04:21 PM

Windwalker...I was living in Wisconsin not more than 50 miles from the place when it happened. My late husband was still alive and running OTR at the time. Happened in fall of 2002 (if my memory is good). Needless to say he got a lecture about ramp sleeping. Being the old trucker that he was he was known to stop on ramps especially out west. Got that habit from years ago when truck stops were not a plentiful as they are now.

Windwalker · #19 03-04-2008, 04:49 PM

I lived about 28 miles from DuBAy at the time. I'd go by there and see the blue K & K truck parked there. Never bothered to stop and see if he needed help. Then one day, I read that he'd been shot. There had been some speculation that he would meet someone there, and maybe her husband met him that day, but no one knows who it may have been or if that was the case. I was living in Edgar at the time.

Mr. Ford95 · #20 03-04-2008, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by chuck3507

I don't think it is a big deal personally. I do not do it myself but as long as your on the other side of the white line I won't hit you and all is well.

While you might not hit me if I parked on the shoulder, I'm worried about the one fool who is coming by with a hot logbook at 70 mph or more with 80K lbs. against my stopped truck. Or the fool not paying attention to what's ahead of them because they are yaking on a cellphone.