The problem isn’t exactly new. Trucking boomed after deregulation in 1980. More than a decade ago, Congress passed Jason’s Law, which required states to keep tabs on truck parking.

Overnight parking for tractor-trailer trucks could be created under a bill to be put before the City Council on Thursday — and advocates hope the bill would get the big rigs off residential streets.

Funding for truck parking was included in an infrastructure bill that passed the House in 2021, but the provision did not make it into the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure measure, ...

“Most folks probably don’t realize that 70% of American freight is transported by truck, yet incredibly there is only one parking spot for every 11 trucks on the road,” said OOIDA President ...