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Voices October 2015 | Overdrive | 11 Parking is a primary safety issue for drivers, said Desiree Wood, of the nonprofit advocacy group Real Women in Trucking. She spoke in an interview with the "Here & Now" National Public Radio-affiliated program while attending the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. Wood decried situations where drivers are "treated like crimi- nals" when resorting to parking in nontraditional spaces such as highway off-ramps, forced to fend for themselves in congested urban areas while waiting to load or unload, and more. The interview came days after the release of the Jason's Law Truck Parking Survey, which re- vealed parking shortages across the country. To hear Wood's interview in total and access links to full re- sults of the parking survey and its attendant study, search this story's title at OverdriveOnline.com. JOB NO. DATE SERVICE or SAFETY? GCR150003_Overdrive_3rdPG4C-Service-A 1 7/23/15 4:04 PM Truck parking shortage back in the mainstream Summing up the overwhelming majority response to this poll ques- tion, asked shortly after the Obama administration announced a deal to slow Iran's capability of building a nuclear bomb, Travis Handleson said the "deal is so bad, it's laughable Obama thinks the American peo- ple will buy it." Eight in 10 readers opposed the deal. If approved by Congress, it would lift some international economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for monitoring of that nation's nuclear capabilities and domestic power production, among other stipulations. In Sep- tember, there was indication the deal was more or less done, with an approval threshold met in the Senate that would be sufficient to block a resolution of disapproval. The margin of opposition from readers to the deal shows strength- ening sentiment against negoti- ations with Iran. In December 2013, more than half of readers said that the country should not be allowed to pursue nuclear power development without sanctions. Iran nuclear treaty should be DOA, say readers IRAN NUKES IRAN NUKES Nuclear deal: What best describes your view of it? Source: OverdriveOnline.com poll I fully support it 6% It's not perfect, but it's better than no deal at all 10% I'm neutral / I don't know 5% I oppose it 79% Hot Buttons