From Deputy Transportation Secretary Victor Mendez:

We have nearly six million commercial motor vehicle drivers out on our roads each day –a number expected to increase dramatically by 2045– and the safety of everyone on our roadways demands that drivers pull off the highway and rest periodically. That means safe truck parking is a necessity.  And that’s why, last week, I was honored to join Hope Rivenburg (widow of murdered truck driver Jason Rivenburg) in announcing the National Coalition on Truck Parking, a call to action for a national dialogue on trucking needs and strategies for immediate, near-term and long-term solutions…