Parking crunch... for trucks

Noticed more big rigs parked on the shoulder lately at night? The WSJ says there is a reason: Booming commerce has created a shortage of trucking parking space:

On any given night, the shoulders of interstates leading into big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Baltimore are lined with long glistening strands of parked 18-wheelers. These are the trucks that couldn't get a space in nearby rest stops or truck stops because those roadsides oases are already packed with resting big rigs. ... Thanks to a strong economy, more trucks than ever are moving on the nation's roads, transporting goods. But the number of places where truckers can stop and get some shut-eye during long hauls isn't expanding as fast.

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[yours truly, johnny dollar]

Better those sleepy truck drivers are parked along the side of the freeways than in the 3rd and 4th lanes sleepy at 65+mph.