KTA ALLIED MEMBER SPOTLIGHT Truck Parking Club AN INTERVIEW WITH EVAN SHELLY, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO Truck Parking Club’s mission is to help truckers save time and fuel by finding and instantly reserving truck parking at member properties across the nation. This is accomplished with technology that connects truckers looking for parking with property owners who have extra space on their properties suitable for truck parking. With a network of instantly reservable hourly, daily, weekly and monthly truck parking locations throughout the U.S. — and a goal to help truckers find parking in 10 minutes or less — the Truck Parking Club is giving hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars back to the trucker per year. Evan Shelly, the co-founder and CEO, came up with the idea in 2021. While working on a real estate deal, Evan found a piece of property that was zoned industrial, and he was looking at all the different opportunities of how he could develop it. Truck parking was one of the options that came up and he decided that he was going to move forward with the idea. When Evan approached the local municipality with the idea of truck parking, he was told that they would not support it. After some back and forth, with no resolution, Evan thought to himself, “Something’s going on here. Everyone I’m talking to is saying there needs to be more truck parking. There’s a lot of demand for it. It’s a good investment.” Through that process, Evan found out about the truck parking shortage and learned how difficult it is to build more truck parking across the U.S. for various reasons. Evan started talking to stakeholders, logistics and trucking companies and ultimately decided that it was tough to scale a business where there were a lot of different forces fighting against the idea of building more truck parking. He came up with truck parking clubs as a marketplace solution to the issue. By leveraging existing space — like an unused yard at a trucking company, a tow truck company or a truck repair shop — this setup bypassed a lot of the issues that come with brand-new parcels being turned into truck parking. They’re Kentucky Trucker | 11
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