Truck Parking Club is pitching reserved parking spots as a driver-retention tool, with a $150-a-month space near a driver's home replacing a two-hour commute to a parked truck, according to FreightWaves.
The problem: trucks parked far from drivers
FreightWaves reported that an owner-operator running two trucks struggled to keep a driver on payroll because the truck was parked two hours from where the driver lived. The driver faced a multi-hour trip to and from the truck. The owner-operator solved it by paying for a $150-a-month reserved parking spot near the driver's home.
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. So it's a modest investment for a huge headache gone.
— Reed Loustalot, CMO of Truck Parking Club, in an interview with FreightWaves
Truck Parking Club sells this solution as Fleet Parking, targeting 5 or more spaces for trucks, trailers, or combinations depending on fleet needs, the article said.
How fleet parking accounts work
The company has spent three and a half years building an account structure that lets a fleet decide who does the booking, according to FreightWaves. Drivers can hold company accounts funded by a shared payment method or a deposit. 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 told FreightWaves.
Fleets also gain a reporting layer: full visibility of where bookings are, which locations drivers park at, who is doing the booking, and how much is being spent, Loustalot said.
Network growth and market footprint
Truck Parking Club now lists more than 6,400 locations across 50 states, according to FreightWaves. That is up from the 5,000 it passed in April, and the company is targeting 10,000 locations by the end of 2026. Drivers from 93 of the top 100 fleets have already parked at its locations, and one fleet that plugs into the platform gains yard capacity it never has to sign a lease for.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| National network locations | More than 6,400 across 50 states |
| Texas Property Member locations | More than 700 |
| Texas truck and trailer parking spaces | Nearly 14,000 |
| April 2026 network count | 5,000 (passed) |
| End-2026 target | 10,000 |
| Top-100 fleets with drivers on platform | 93 |
| Cumulative units parked | More than 500,000 |
Texas is Truck Parking Club's largest market, with more than 700 Property Member locations and nearly 14,000 truck and trailer parking spaces, FreightWaves reported.
The retention math fleets never ran
Large fleets know they have a turnover problem, but until recently almost none treated parking as a lever, according to the article. Loustalot said the gap surfaces when he asks fleet managers 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?'"
The old alternative was 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,'" Loustalot said.
A driver who knows where to park in advance does not burn an hour from the clock looking for it, and high-value freight can 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."
Drivers consistently rank parking near the top of their concerns. 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, according to FreightWaves.
Board seat and industry ties
To fuel the fleet expansion, Truck Parking Club 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, FreightWaves reported.
What this means for fleets and operators
FreightWaves' reporting shows that the platform now counts more than 500,000 units parked, and its account structure gives fleets centralized booking and full visibility of locations and spend. For operations teams managing driver retention, the example of the owner-operator — a $150 monthly spot eliminating a two-hour commute — offers a concrete benchmark for what a parking perk can cost.
Watch list
- Truck Parking Club's expansion toward 10,000 locations by the end of 2026, per FreightWaves.
- Brent Hutto's role on the Texas Trucking Association Board of Directors and its Truck Parking Committee, announced Aug. 13.
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