Hotels4Truckers revamped for truck parking-friendly bookings

On this week’s version of Overdrive Radio, Hotels4Truckers.com proprietor Dan Fuller, former driver and unbiased owner-operator, particulars completion of a challenge years within the making. The web site and now cell app as effectively obtained its begin merely as a cataloging of accommodations across the nation the place parking a tractor and 53-foot trailer was not solely doable however welcomed, supplied for by the resort services.

Throughout the final yr, customers of Hotels4Truckers.com, although, observed some vital adjustments, boosting the seamless-experience issue with reserving doable now, with reductions, proper from the location itself.

Functionally, Fuller stated, „We’re like Motels.com for the trucking {industry} now. Inform us the place you are trying, you do your dates, and all of the accommodations come again“ with a search, displaying the discounted fee accessible to Hotels4Truckers customers and with a built-in parking filter you should use to point out solely websites the place parking’s accessible.

The brand new web site soft-launched again final Fall — legacy customers, Fuller added, might want to re-register in the event that they have not already — and ever since he is been tweaking the design and including resort chains and truck parking-friendly services. In whole, near 13,000 rooms are represented inside the platform (many with parking) amongst dozens of resort manufacturers. In Canada, too, with a really current replace for customers up North. 

Dan Fuller, pictured throughout his OTR daysHotels4Truckers.comThat simply so occurs to be the place Dan Fuller lives right now — he got here off the street in 2017 after a lot of his life spent headquartered close to Detroit. A second marriage to a Canadian health-industry specialist took him as much as rural far Northern Ontario, the place he is been arduous at work constructing out the brand new model of his longtime service. I am prepared to wager he is trying ahead to hotter climes as he preps for an official launch of the brand new Hotels4Truckers.com upcoming on the Mid-America Trucking Present in Louisville, Kentucky, subsequent month. (You may discover him within the North Foyer close to the primary registration — attendees can join the service there without cost and with a particular present as a part of the cut price. I believe it will likely be well worth the go to, I will say, for now.)

Within the podcast, Dan Fuller lays out his private story trucking, likewise the 15 years or so he is spent at work constructing a community of discounted accommodations and with, as famous, verifiable intelligence about whether or not tractor-trailer parking is obtainable at any web site. Take a hear:

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