About and data sources

Truck Parking Info is a static directory of places a truck can park in the United States. It is built from public data, plus lots an owner submits. Adding a listing is free. Nothing on this site is for sale.

OpenStreetMap

Roadside parking, rest areas, service plazas, truck-stop brands, and fuel stations tagged for trucks come from OpenStreetMap. © OpenStreetMap contributors. The data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Map tiles on location pages are served by the OpenStreetMap tile servers and carry the same credit.

The extract used for this build: Geofabrik north-america/us state extracts, OSM data through 2026-10-20T20:23:47Z. We read Geofabrik’s per-state .osm.pbf files and keep nodes and ways that are rest areas, service plazas, truck parking, truck-stop brands (Love’s, Pilot, Flying J, TA, Petro, and a short list of similar chains), or fuel stations tagged hgv=yes. Rest areas and service plazas tagged hgv=no are left out. OSM relations are not turned into separate listings.

FHWA Jason’s Law survey

The federal rows are the NTAD Truck Stop Parking layer published by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the Federal Highway Administration’s Jason’s Law truck parking survey. The service description says the dataset was compiled on April 9, 2019. It is a work of the United States government and is not subject to US copyright. This build kept 8,207 locations after merging; the federal file itself is about 1,915 facilities and 39,803 truck spaces. The published layer has no Alaska, Hawaii, or District of Columbia rows. Those states depend on OpenStreetMap and submissions.

Jason’s Law is the MAP-21 requirement that USDOT survey truck parking on the National Highway System. Background: FHWA truck parking.

How a listing gets its city and highway

If the source already names a city, that name is kept. Otherwise the nearest Census 2024 place within 25 miles is used (census designated places are slightly less preferred than incorporated places). Farther points use the county name. A city page is generated only when at least three listings share it, so a one-lot town does not get a thin page of its own.

Interstate assignment prefers a route written in the source (for example “I-10 EB” or “I 59”). If that is missing, the listing is matched to the nearest Census TIGER 2024 primary road within about a mile for rest areas and about 1.6 miles for truck stops. An exit number is shown only when the source text says “Exit”. Mileposts are copied from the source and are not calculated.

Duplicates

The same truck stop is often mapped several times: a brand node, a building, and a parking lot. Records are merged when they are close and share a brand or a similar name. Two federal survey rows are kept separate unless they sit on top of each other. Northbound and southbound rest areas are not merged.

What this is not

• Not a live count of open spaces. A “40 truck spaces” figure can be years old.
• Not a legal notice. Time limits, idling rules, and overnight bans are posted at the lot. See the time-limit guide for what we refuse to guess.
• Not a guarantee that trucks are welcome. When a source says hgv=no and the place is not a known truck-stop brand, it is omitted. A brand tagged hgv=no is still listed, with the conflict left visible only when the tag is a hard no and there is no brand.
• Not an advertisement. Featured placement and ad slots exist in the page markup and are switched off.

Corrections

Use Add or claim a lot. The form emails the operator. A listing goes on the site after it is copied into data/submissions.json with "status": "published" and the dataset is rebuilt.