On April 28th, Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced HR 2156, "Jason's Law." Jason's Law is a bill that will provide grant money to increase security and expand parking areas for trucks across the country. Click here to view the bill.

Jason's Law would create a six-year pilot program that would make $120 million available in the form of grants ($20 million per year) for local governments and private companies to address the shortage of parking for commercial vehicles.  

Trucking is a 24/7 business and truckers run all hours of the day and night. I am sure anyone reading this has seen during their morning commute to work, tractor/trailers parked on the on/off-ramps alongside of just about every freeway in America. Why are drivers parking in such dangerous places, because in some areas of this country there is not