Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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June 2018 | Overdrive | 33 The company is enabling ideas Grenerth's long held as an ongoing member of FHWA's National Coalition on Truck Parking working group: to con- vert unused space in or around industrial parks or warehouses into secure parking facilities. One of the company's founders, Scott McKenna, has been doing that for 20 years at the Detroit facility, "and in those 20 years, he's never had the police there," Grenerth says. "It's not just parking, it's exactly what Mr. Rivenburg and Mr. Boeglin needed — safe parking. … It benefits the trucker who needs a sound night's rest and the carrier who needs to know their load won't disappear." He makes reference to truckers Jason Rivenburg and Michael Boeglin, both of whom were murdered during rob- bery attempts while parked in nontra- ditional locations when safe options were unavailable (in South Carolina and Michigan, respectively). In addition to more parking spaces, "real-time parking information" is also part of the company's strat- egy. By the end of the year, TSPS will have more than 100 locations instrumented with real-time parking information available via the com- pany's mobile app. Grenerth hopes to announce new projects this year. Michael Boeglin was killed in 2014 in Detroit while parked offsite near a Thyssen Krupp guard shack, unmanned after hours. Soon after his death, Scott Grenerth, then working for OOIDA, visited the site where, after a robbery, Boeglin's truck had been burned with the hauler inside it. The bill of lading (above) found at the site "really hits home," Grenerth says. "That is the exact same load I hauled to that place many, many times." That load was aluminum coils from Aleris Rolled Products in Lewisport, Kentucky. Grenerth now works with Truck Specialized Parking Services, which redevelops underused com- mercial space into truck parking. Courtesy of Scott Grenerth Toll FREE: 1-888-788-3135 www.DieselSpec.ca Product and service that gives the best fuel effi ciency on the market NORTH AMERICAN LEADER IN PERFORMANCE AND FUEL ECONOMY FOR BIG RIGS • Mileage gain from 5% to 20% more • High performance parts • More horsepower and torque • Off-Highway tuning available ECM Tuning is the proces s of fine tuning the sof t ware program that controls your engine management system. WHAT DOES ECM TUNING MEAN ? GRAB YOUR OPPORTUNITY in becoming a Diesel Spec Dealer, email us at : i n f o @ d i e s e l s p e c . c a O V E R 3 5 0 L O C AT I O N S I N N O R T H A M E R I C A