For trucking fleets, a place to park may be the next driver perk

An owner-operator running two trucks struggled to keep a driver on their payroll. The truck was parked two hours from where he lived. For the driver he hired, it turned into a multi-hour trip to and from the truck. The solution was deceptively simple: a $150-a-month reserved parking spot near the driver’s home.

Truck Parking Club sells that solution as Fleet Parking, targeting 5 or more spaces for trucks, trailers or combinations depending on fleet needs.

“Hey, instead of having to drive two hours to the truck whenever you go home, I’ll just book a spot five minutes from your house and your commute’s five minutes,” said Reed Loustalot, CMO of Truck Parking Club, in an interview with FreightWaves, recounting what the operator told a new hire. “So it’s a modest investment for a huge headache gone.”

To help fuel that fleet expansion, the company announced Aug. 13 that Chief Relationship Officer Brent Hutto was selected for the Board of Directors of the Texas Trucking Association, where he already chairs its Truck Parking Committee.

Texas is Truck Parking Club’s largest market, with more than 700 Property Member locations and nearly 14,000 truck and trailer parking spaces. window. googletag = window. googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag. cmd. push(function() {googletag.

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One fleet that plugs into the platform gains yard capacity it never has to sign a lease for. The retention math fleets never ran Large fleets know they have a turnover problem. Until recently, almost none of them treated parking as a lever. Loustalot said the gap surfaces the moment he asks a direct question on a trade show floor.

“Oftentimes if I’m at a conference and I’m talking to somebody who’s a fleet manager or something like that or just in ops, I’ll ask them, ‘Do you do anything to provide parking for your drivers?’ And for a lot of them they’re kind of just like, ‘Well, I don’t really know what I could do, right?'”

They had a point, he said, because the alternative involves time and a lot of guesswork. “They could essentially just fire up Google Maps and say, ‘Hey driver, you can go check this rest area out. I have no clue if there’s any space but there you go.'” The benefits run downstream from there.

A driver who knows where to park in advance does not burn an hour from the clock looking for it. For high-value freight, it can now sit behind a secured fence overnight. “Your drivers aren’t stopping an hour short of their drive time every day to park,” Loustalot said. “If they’re transporting sensitive freight, you can book them higher security locations.”

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Truck parking placed second among commercial drivers in the American Transportation Research Institute’s 2025 survey of more than 4,200 industry stakeholders, behind only compensation, and fourth among all respondents.

Fleet truck parking accounts built like a toll pass Truck Parking Club has spent three and a half years building the account structure that lets a fleet decide who does the booking. Drivers can hold company accounts funded by a shared payment method or a deposit, and dispatchers, safety staff or fleet managers can book on their behalf instead.

“In the same way that you would like a toll pass. Fleets just fill up the toll pass and drivers go use it and that’s that. It’s the same sort of idea. We can do that,” Loustalot said. The reporting layer is the key part of what turns it into a viable fleet product.

“All the while the fleet has all the visibility of where the bookings are, what locations they’re parking at, who’s doing it, how much are they spending,” Loustalot said. window. googletag = window. googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag. cmd. push(function() {googletag.

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