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Illinois Walmart Location Bans Semi-Truck Parking
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through CDLLIFE - Trucking News & Entertainment's website.
Trucking News website reports on an Illinois Walmart location banning semi-truck parking after they were hit with tens of thousands of dollars worth of fines. After months of pressure from city officials along with heavy fines, the Walmart location has surrendered to the city’s arm-twisting and is now taking substantial steps to prevent trucks from parking in their lot, including installing three height restricting bars at entrances to the lot along with concrete barriers.
The truck parking controversy began in April of 2017 when a zoning inspector noticed semi trucks parked in spaces marked for cars and after further digging found that the Walmart location had not followed the parking plan originally submitted to city officials. Eventually city officials elected to retroactively impose a $500 per day fine to the Walmart store for not acting on keeping the large trucks from parking in their lot, capping the total fine at $50,000. Trucks will still be able to enter the lot at a location near the store’s garden center, but they are only allowed in to load and unload.
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