Article: Congress should improve highway rest areas and add parking for truckers.

Article: SEVERE TRUCK PARKING SHORTAGE AT PUBLIC REST ...
PR Newswire;  May 15, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... 400 truck parking spaces in public rest areas. "Failure to solve the truck ... through minor renovations at public rest areas. * In order of need, Pennsylvania ... that private truck stops and public rest areas are direct substitutes for each ...

Article: Crowding, regulations drive weary truckers out of rest ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 000 parking spaces for trucks at public rest areas. And when the Owner-Operator ... lucky enough to find parking in rest areas, they can't always sleep there ... five of the country's 1,500 public rest areas restrict the amount of time truckers ...

Article: Congress Should Improve Highway Rest Areas and Add ...
U.S. Newswire;  September 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... 307 of the nation's 1,487 public rest areas and found they had a total of ... 412 truck parking spaces at public rest areas. Truck safety, it should be ... rousting tired truckers from public rest areas because of some bureaucrat ...

Article: Truckers fear shortage of rest areas
Charleston Daily Mail;  November 26, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... national problem: a shortage of rest areas for truckers. This, plus driver ... advocates. Truckers like the public rest areas, usually located along major ... by 2000. About 42 percent of public rest areas nationwide have time limits or ...

Article: Highway Act Allows State Rest Areas To Offer ...
Transport Topics;  August 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... idle-reducing technologies at public rest areas along the nations interstate ... permits such technologies at public rest areas along federal highways, it ... idle-reducing technologies at public rest areas only if they "do not reduce ...

Article: Rest stop to rest shop.(Business)(Oregon is one of many states ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  April 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... information center at an existing public rest stop such as Oak Grove - and that ... she said. "If we go with a public rest area, it will be quite restrictive ... said. There's a reason why public rest areas more closely resemble day-use ...

Article: Connecticut Agency Looks into Creating More Rest ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  September 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... no room at area truck stops or public rest areas. Heags said he knows the area ... spaces at travel stations or rest areas are needed to handle the current ... trees killed, but no additional rest areas," Riley said. He said any ...