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Truck Parking Club

Marketplace · Trucking · USA · Founded 2022
👤 Evan Shelley (Land investor and civil engineer. He tried to build a truck lot himself, so he knew idle-lot owners' economics cold.)🌐 site𝕏

The Airbnb of truck parking: it lists 66,000+ spaces on other people's lots and takes 30% of every reservation.

Will it work? · our read
Density wins. The parking crisis is real, but Trucker Path launched paid reservations in June 2026, at about the same scale as TPC's network.
01How the money moves
Owner lists idle lot
Trucker books a space
TPC takes 30% cut
02The numbers
66,000+Statedbookable parking spaces
2026
the sentence on the page2026. The Chattanooga, Tenn.-based company added 1,000 locations in just three months and now offers over 66,000 instantly reservable truck parking spaces, addressing a national shortage of 1.7…
5,900+
property locations
66,000+
bookable spaces
30%
take rate
Largest reservable truck-parking network in the US, 4 years after launch. Yahoo Finance
Revenue undisclosed; about $10M is a third-party estimate. First-party: 30% take on 4,000+ lots, plus $2.25M seed and a CAT Scale strategic investment.
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SourcesSources last checked 25 August 2026
First-party confirmed: 30% take rate, the 2021 zoning-to-marketplace pivot, 4,000+ locations / over 66,000 spaces (company PR), $2.25M seed (Feb 2025), and CAT Scale's strategic investment (July 2025). Revenue is NOT disclosed — the about-$10M figure is a third-party directory estimate (Growjo/ZoomInfo-style), marked EST and unverified; the Growjo page 403'd, so treat it as a rough ceiling. The founder discloses only unit economics (per-lot bookings, 30% cut), not company revenue. The 1-space-per-11-trucks shortage is FHWA 2019 via ATRI. Trucker Path launched its own paid, instantly reservable parking (50,000+ spots) in June 2026 — a real competitive threat, not a hypothetical one; TPC's edge is now its head start in signed property supply, not exclusivity of the feature. No drama fabricated; the pivot is documented by the founder himself. We never score you.