Trucker Path, a mobile app for North American truckers, announced the expansion of its truck parking solutions to instantly include more than 50,000 reservable truck parking spots to its popular Trucker Path app. Now, in addition to providing access to free parking availability, Trucker Path is offering its more than one million app users the ability to reserve overnight and longer-term parking throughout the U.S.
Powered by a network of over 1 million active users and tens of millions of real-time user-generated data points, the platform has historically relied on crowd-sourced insights to help drivers locate available free parking. The addition of reservable, paid parking extends the platform’s scope of solutions and continues the company’s efforts to ensure truck drivers are able to efficiently locate safe and secure parking.
“The U.S. faces a severe truck parking shortage, with availability estimated at one parking space for every 11 trucks on the road,” said Chris Oliver, CMO at Trucker Path. “The need for easily discoverable, secure, verified parking locations is mission critical. In addition to continuing to provide free parking availability at thousands of locations across North America, our new reservable parking network gives drivers and fleets the ability to reserve overnight and long-term parking directly within the app at more than 50,000 spots at professionally managed, secure locations. Going forward, we will continue to grow the number of locations until we’ve achieved national coverage.”
- Based on data from ATRI (American Transportation Research Institute) drivers spend an average of about 56 minutes per day searching for parking at a cost of six to seven hours per week in lost productivity. That equates to $4,000 to $6,000 annually per driver in lost revenue potential.
Through predictive analytics based on historical utilization and time-of-day patterns, Trucker Path will enable access to bookable parking, giving drivers certainty and improving their quality of life on the road. Reserved parking also improves safety for drivers and loads, Oliver went on to point out, because cargo theft continues to rise and freight is increasingly targeted during unsecured dwell times.
