What do you think about Truck Parking Club?

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Reed Loustalot
May 22, 2026

TRUCK PARKING CLUB

Friday Bulletin • May 22, 2026

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The Big Thing

The Federal Government Just Earmarked $750 Million to Fix Truck Parking. Here's What's Actually in the Bill.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee marks up the BUILD America 250 Act today, May 21. It's the first serious shot at replacing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act before it expires on September 30. The bill runs 1,005 pages and authorizes $580 billion over five years. Buried inside it is something every trucker has been waiting on for a decade: a dedicated $750 million truck parking program.

The number matters. Truck parking has been chronically underfunded at the federal level for as long as the shortage has existed. Jason's Law, passed in 2012, told the DOT to study the problem and allowed states to use existing highway funds on parking. It never came with dedicated money. This bill does. It codifies and expands Jason's Law, creates a new competitive grant program through the Federal Highway Administration, and authorizes $120 million per year out of the Highway Trust Fund to pay for it. Money can go toward new construction or converting existing property into truck parking. That second part is the part to pay attention to.

The math on the parking shortage has not moved in years. There is roughly one truck parking space for every 11 drivers. Drivers spend nearly an hour a day searching for parking and lose around $5,500 a year in wasted fuel doing it. FMCSA links 457 fatal crashes a year to drivers parking on ramps and shoulders because they ran out of options. Building a new truck parking space from scratch costs $100,000 to $200,000 and takes years of permitting. $750 million spread over five years and 50 states does not fix the shortage on its own. What it does is push real money toward the only approach that scales fast: using property that already exists.

The bill includes several other wins truckers have been pushing on for years. The Trucker Bathroom Access Act is folded in, requiring shippers and receivers that already have restrooms for employees to make them available to drivers waiting on loads. There's a federal framework for autonomous commercial vehicles for the first time. There's a prohibition on predatory lease-to-own schemes that have trapped owner-operators for years. There's an electric vehicle registration fee of $130 per year and $35 for plug-in hybrids, which puts EVs into the Highway Trust Fund for the first time in three decades. There's $50 billion for bridges, the largest single bridge investment in history, and a working group on bridge strikes.

Not everyone is happy. The Union of Concerned Scientists calls the bill a highway contractor's wishlist and points out heavy trucks cause more than 90% of road damage and will still pay less than their share. Transit and rail funding drops 20% compared to the current law. The EV registration fees barely dent the structural deficit in the Highway Trust Fund. None of that changes the trucking-specific provisions, but the bill will get fought over.

What happens next. Markup today means the committee debates amendments and votes the bill out. From there it needs a full House vote, a Senate version, a conference committee to reconcile the two, and a presidential signature. The current law expires September 30. There is a real chance Congress passes a short extension and pushes the final bill into 2027. Even if everything goes smoothly, grant applications and awards take time. Money on the page does not mean money on the ground.

The bigger story for anyone in this industry is the direction. The federal government is acknowledging, on paper, with dedicated dollars, that the truck parking shortage is a safety crisis and the fastest way to solve it is to convert property that already exists. That is the entire premise of Truck Parking Club. Every property owner with paved space suitable for trucks is sitting on infrastructure the country needs. The federal grant program will move at the speed of government. The market is moving now.

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News

Supreme Court Just Made Brokers Liable for Hiring Bad Carriers In a unanimous 9-0 decision on May 14, the Supreme Court ruled in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II that freight brokers can be sued in state court for negligently hiring unsafe motor carriers. The decision strips brokers of the federal preemption shield they have used for decades to dismiss these cases. Shawn Montgomery lost his leg in a 2017 Illinois crash involving a Caribe Transport truck that C.H. Robinson had brokered. Montgomery argued the broker should have known Caribe had a conditional safety rating and documented deficiencies in driver qualifications, hours of service, and crash history. The ruling does not establish broker liability automatically. It does mean brokers will now have to defend carrier-vetting decisions in court when one of their dispatched carriers causes a crash. Expect a rapid tightening in how brokers screen carriers, what they document, and how insurance markets price broker policies. Read more on CCJ

Diesel Backs Off Its Spike After last week's 28.9-cent jump, the national average for on-highway diesel pulled back 4.4 cents this week to $5.596. The Midwest, which drove most of last week's surge with a 61-cent increase, led the moderation. Crude markets remain unsettled around Iran tensions and U.S. distillate inventories are still at their lowest level since 2014, so traders are not calling this a turn. If you reset your fuel surcharge math last week, do not touch it yet. Read more on EIA

CVSA Roadcheck Pulled 31% of Day-One Inspections Out of Service Early data from the 2026 International Roadcheck shows day-one results well above the historical baseline. Day one of the May 12-14 inspection blitz produced 1,580 inspections and 496 out-of-service orders, a 31.4% out-of-service rate against total inspection volume. Last year's full-event vehicle out-of-service rate was 18.1%. The 2026 focus areas were ELD tampering on the driver side and cargo securement on the vehicle side, but brakes continue to drive the largest share of OOS findings. Full results come out later this year. Read more on CVSA

The Walcott Truckers Jamboree -- July 9-11

The 48th Annual Walcott Truckers Jamboree returns to the Iowa 80 Truckstop off I-80, Exit 284 in Walcott, Iowa. Last year's event drew over 45,000 people.

This year features the Super Truck Beauty Contest, antique truck display, Trucker Olympics, Iowa pork chop cookout, fireworks at 9 PM, and live music all three days. Admission and parking are free.

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