Minnesota loves trucks

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Minneapolis to vote on city-wide semi truck parking ban

This week, city official in Minneapolis will vote on a controversial proposal that would effectively ban drivers from parking a semi truck under many circumstances.

cdllife.com

 

[Mike]

Minneapolis to vote on city-wide semi truck parking ban

This week, city official in Minneapolis will vote on a controversial proposal that would effectively ban drivers from parking a semi truck under many circumstances.

cdllife.com

City officials in that city seem to hate just about everything at this point.

 

[Duck]

City officials in that city seem to hate just about everything at this point.

During a time when police are needed more than ever before, they demand the complete elimination of police.

That's all anyone needs to know about the "people" running that city.

But the fact that they want to eliminate police, but think someone is going to enforce their truck ban, is just more evidence of their sheer stupidity.

If that CDL Life article is accurate and didn't leave anything out, that proposed law would outlaw the loading and unloading of freight too. It only says vehicles over 26k lbs can park to load or unload "passengers".

I hope nobody catches that until after it's passed.

I'd love to see them try to supply all of the industry & businesses in the city entirely with Sprinter vans.

As far as OTR drivers parking to sleep goes though, who in their right mind would take a ten hour break in that crime infested shithole anyway?

 

[mndriver]

As far as OTR drivers parking to sleep goes though, who in their right mind would take a ten hour break in that crime infested shithole anyway

Seriously you are going to be that dense?

lot of us try to go in the night before and park at the shipper/receiver and wait for them to open.

not to mention all the o/o that actually live in that shithole of a community that will now be forced to commute over 50-60 miles one way to find parking.

Minneapolis isn’t the first shithole in the metro to outlaw truck parking either

 

[Sinister]

They're trying to keep the city from looking like the Lakeville, MN Holiday/McDonald's where for a long time it was like a junkyard.

Sounds like it's time to buy a chunk of land, fence it off and charge for parking.

Not interested in people whining about how far they commute. Part of owning a business is securing it when you're not running it. Just parking It anywhere you feel entitled to is pretty short sighted, IMO.

And that's what this is. Entitlement. Because I'm pretty sure not too many of the folks who own trucks live right on top of where they're leaving them on the street anyway.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

But it is a shit hole.

I do my level best not to park in or too close to major cities as well. I'm pretty good at it for the most part.

 

[389 Hood]

Any fairly large city is a shithole these days. And the crime is extending out into the 'burbs too, because the inhabitants can't rob those that have nothing to take.

 

[Duck]

Seriously you are going to be that dense?

lot of us try to go in the night before and park at the shipper/receiver and wait for them to open.

not to mention all the o/o that actually live in that shithole of a community that will now be forced to commute over 50-60 miles one way to find parking.

Minneapolis isn’t the first shithole in the metro to outlaw truck parking either

Dense?

You would park in a crime infested shithole where the defunded and demoralized police are afraid to defend their own precinct buildings?

 

[Rigjockey]

They're trying to keep the city from looking like the Lakeville, MN Holiday/McDonald's where for a long time it was like a junkyard.

Sounds like it's time to buy a chunk of land, fence it off and charge for parking.

Not interested in people whining about how far they commute. Part of owning a business is securing it when you're not running it. Just parking It anywhere you feel entitled to is pretty short sighted, IMO.

And that's what this is. Entitlement. Because I'm pretty sure not too many of the folks who own trucks live right on top of where they're leaving them on the street anyway.

We have a street near here that is no parking on the road for anyone at anytime. It was lined with trucks parked and the owners gone home and yeah, it looked like a junk yard.

The by-law officer came by and played Oprah Winfrey.
You get a ticket and you get a ticket and you get a ticket, everyone here gets a ticket!

 

[Electric Chicken]

They're trying to keep the city from looking like the Lakeville, MN Holiday/McDonald's where for a long time it was like a junkyard.

Sounds like it's time to buy a chunk of land, fence it off and charge for parking.

Not interested in people whining about how far they commute. Part of owning a business is securing it when you're not running it. Just parking It anywhere you feel entitled to is pretty short sighted, IMO.

And that's what this is. Entitlement. Because I'm pretty sure not too many of the folks who own trucks live right on top of where they're leaving them on the street anyway.

Couple XPO guys park at the Sheetz.

Not sure how that works out. If they're paying Sheetz (doubt it) or if they're temporarily getting away with it.

I don't like the idea of commuting to my own truck. Might as well commute to someone else's truck and have benefits.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Guess the moral of the story is don't live in a shit hole if you're gonna own a truck.

 

[Rigjockey]

Guess the moral of the story is don't live in a shit hole if you're gonna own a truck.

Or the moral of the story is if you can afford to own a truck you can afford to pay to park it legally.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Or the moral of the story is if you can afford to own a truck you can afford to pay to park it legally.

I'm proof that that isn't true. I run rail, remember? I'll never make a go of it.

 

[Mike]

The people that live there are fine. They are either parking on their own property, company property, or further out at a truck stop like truck owners/drivers have done for decades.

@Sinister this has nothing to do with owning a truck specifically. Company drivers go home for off time and take their trucks home. They are in as much of a mess as anybody else when it comes to finding a place to park their truck. Not every company has a terminal in every city.

The problem with this is people coming in to deliver into the city. Parking overnight outside of a shipper or receiver is a common thing among truck drivers, and something they would now be fined for if they did it under this proposed law. This means, everyone having to park outside of town and come rushing in with rush hour traffic to to make pickups and deliveries.

Make your delivery, and waiting on a pickup? doesn't matter if it is in the city, you would have to leave town and come back at your appointment time which might only be an hour or two later.

The proposed law is stupid, and one more reason for me to not go to a city that is currently already imploding under it's own ignorance.

 

[Sinister]

Guess the moral of the story is don't live in a shit hole if you're gonna own a truck.

At least have a place to park it. Setting up a business requires a plan. Where to store your equipment should be part of it.

 

[Electric Chicken]

The people that live there are fine. They are either parking on their own property, company property, or further out at a truck stop like truck owners/drivers have done for decades.

@Sinister this has nothing to do with owning a truck specifically. Company drivers go home for off time and take their trucks home. They are in as much of a mess as anybody else when it comes to finding a place to park their truck. Not every company has a terminal in every city.

The problem with this is people coming in to deliver into the city. Parking overnight outside of a shipper or receiver is a common thing among truck drivers, and something they would now be fined for if they did it under this proposed law. This means, everyone having to park outside of town and come rushing in with rush hour traffic to to make pickups and deliveries.

Make your delivery, and waiting on a pickup? doesn't matter if it is in the city, you would have to leave town and come back at your appointment time which might only be an hour or two later.

The proposed law is stupid, and one more reason for me to not go to a city that is currently already imploding under it's own ignorance.

Just put the fine in the rate con.

If it's an hour to kill, surely you can do some laps around the block.

 

[Sinister]

The people that live there are fine. They are either parking on their own property, company property, or further out at a truck stop like truck owners/drivers have done for decades.

@Sinister this has nothing to do with owning a truck specifically. Company drivers go home for off time and take their trucks home. They are in as much of a mess as anybody else when it comes to finding a place to park their truck. Not every company has a terminal in every city.

The problem with this is people coming in to deliver into the city. Parking overnight outside of a shipper or receiver is a common thing among truck drivers, and something they would now be fined for if they did it under this proposed law. This means, everyone having to park outside of town and come rushing in with rush hour traffic to to make pickups and deliveries.

Make your delivery, and waiting on a pickup? doesn't matter if it is in the city, you would have to leave town and come back at your appointment time which might only be an hour or two later.

The proposed law is stupid, and one more reason for me to not go to a city that is currently already imploding under it's own ignorance.

The article specifically states many are owner operators.

 

[Mike]

The article specifically states many are owner operators.

I know what the article states, but I also know what reality is. The city is trying to run trucks out of town, consequences be damned. People already don't want to go there, now more people will avoid it. In the end, it only costs the city, which as I said, is already imploding under it's own ignorance.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I know what the article states, but I also know what reality is. The city is trying to run trucks out of town, consequences be damned. People already don't want to go there, now more people will avoid it. In the end, it only costs the city, which as I said, is already imploding under it's own ignorance.

Let 'em implode. Who cares.

 

[Sinister]

I know what the article states, but I also know what reality is. The city is trying to run trucks out of town, consequences be damned. People already don't want to go there, now more people will avoid it. In the end, it only costs the city, which as I said, is already imploding under it's own ignorance.

No. They're just talking about the Somali owned junk sitting around.

Swing through Lakeville if you don't believe me.

Minnesota Trucking Associations argument is thin and stupid.