Have heard this too many times to just pass it off as another truckstop rumor. Has anyone else heard this one? Wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be true. Too many pigs posing as truck drivers ruining it for the rest of us.

Wouldnt surprise me. Its ashamned though, such good places to park...Some people just cant learn where bathrooms and trashcans are!! But let me say this..one thing is for sure, all of these places that ban trucks....they will never ban themselves from taking your money.

:evil: What The...oink-oink snort squeal snuk snuk grunt...

How would you like it if people were glazing your ass and standing around drooling at you! :evil:

Give us a damn break HUH! :lol:



roadhog :?

One explaination I've heard is that the pavement in the parking lots is too thin for trucks. No problem with cars, but with a 70,000+ truck, the pavement has a tendency to crack and need repair. Not only the weight, but the tandem wheels, in warm weather, can "pull" the pavement apart and cause rather large cracks. The cost of repair exceeds the revenue generated by what the drivers spend there.

Then, the "pigs" add insult to injury.

I don't do a lot of parking at Wal-Marts because it's some one else's property. I know that the weight of the truck can damage that property, so unless I'm delivering there, I don't go there. It's a matter of respect.

I agree on principle. I can't remember parking overnight at Wally World unless it was my last resort in bad weather. Though I have gone in there to shop more than once. I always aim for the docks, then loop around, and park by the curb on the way out, like I unloaded there, and I'm stopping for a minute. Nobody ever said boo about it.

I figure that part of the lot probably is built to take trucks too.

But I guess this thread is more about the people I see over here in town every week spending their weekend at Wal-Mart, which I've always found somehow depressing. (Though for all I know, maybe some of them are actually local drivers who are parking at Wal-Mart to spend a weekend at home. That's possible. We have a lot of drivers around here, with trucks parked in every wide patch of gravel every weekend.)

Not built for trucks??? thats a lie if I ever heard one.

Bull, what about those Wallies that have truck parking???

Absolutely true.

Go look at the specs that the paving company used when they built the parking lot at your local Wally World, then go look at the specs they used when they paved the truck dock area. They are different.

As far as I know, it is still left up to the manager of each store as to whether or not they want to allow truck parking on the property. And if the manager is not responsible for parking lot upkeep from his own store's funds, then that manager might not care that the parking lot is not built to handle frequent truck traffic.

If parking lot maintenence does come out of each store's funds, then the manager would be a fool to allow truck parking in the customer parking lot.