I know this is a bit of a long shot but do any of you guys know of any truck parking in or around Pompano Beach, FL. I’m meant to be tipping there on Thursday afternoon but I’ll either be bang out of time or have very little left when I get there. Pompano Beach is just north of Fort Lauderdale so well down towards Miami. The last rest area heading south down the 95 is 71 miles north and there is one heading west across aligator alley about 65 miles away but obviously they depend on which way my reload is. I’ve found a tiny truckstop in Pompano that costs $15 per night but with only 15-20 parking spaces cant depend on that, even though I’ll be empty by mid afternoon if all goes to plan. If I cant find anything else and my reload is near where I’m tipping or further south towards Miami then I’ll just have to park up on Thursday and tip on Friday as I’m not running 71 miles north and back again the next morning to reload and I’m certainly not parking on an industrial estate after tipping in Pompano Beach.
Not a lot of choice for parking south of Ft Pierce, Miami area is supposedly a bit naughty too, can’t help you any more than that driver 
Oh, Miami, you dirty lucky [zb]stard, it’s [zb]ing fffffffreezing up here 
Parking probably wont be a problem now as I just turned up at the border at 3:30am Atlantic time to be told my PAPS number on my invoice and ACE doesn’t match the one that the broker used so I’m back in our yard and heading to bed again. Wont get down there until Friday morning now so will park at the sole rest area between Ft Pierce and Miami and run in the next morning. I just hope I can get tipped and to a reload in time before the weekend. Obviously there are worse places to be stuck for the weekend but its only about 3200km from NB to Pompano Beach so cant be doing with being stranged there with so little milleage, as has been happening all too often lately for one reason or another.
Pompano beach ind area is mainly warehousing as it’s where the Caribbean produce comes into the US. It gets really busy even at night with all the reefer boys scrambling to get loaded until late at night then parking is at a real premium. Most guys try to turn around and get out at night for that reason. As you have said on here that you don’t like reefers parking next to you it could be your worst nightmare.
P.s. if I am getting you mixed up with someone else and you actually pull a reefer nowadays you could just park in one of the produce warehouse staging areas and pretend you’re waiting to get loaded. Lol.
Was it Me that did’nt like reefers wire??
In case it was’nt I don’t they’re noisy & smell…
The furthest south other than in Homestead that I have parked is the Pilot at Vero Beach and there’s not much room there.
If you want to skip round the west side and down towards Homestead there’s a free parking truck stop as you head that way.
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P.s. if I am getting you mixed up with someone else and you actually pull a reefer nowadays you could just park in one of the produce warehouse staging areas and pretend you’re waiting to get loaded. Lol.
Probably not me. I do prefere a quiet nights sleep but dont get my knickers in a twist about reefers parking near me. I’m on dry vans now but spent the first year and a half of my time in Canada on reefers.
Pat Hasler:
The furthest south other than in Homestead that I have parked is the Pilot at Vero Beach and there’s not much room there.
If you want to skip round the west side and down towards Homestead there’s a free parking truck stop as you head that way.
My only other trip to Florida was back in November 2010 when I unloaded an hour south of Tampa and reloaded oranges in Vero Beach for Montreal. I seem to remember there being a TA there as well that I passed on the way in. Should be fine this time though, I’m heading to the last rest area before Miami which is about 70 miles from my destination. I should be there nice and early so no worries on that count, fingers crossed. Southern Florida has to be one of the worst places in North America for parking!
I used to hate doing the Miami mail run, there was always an 8 hour difference between the offloading and reloading and they wouldn’t let no US mail employee’s park on site, that wasn’t so bad at the sorting office near the airport because there was a lot of space on the industrial estate where nobody bothered me and a few places to eat nearby, but there was one sorting office near the city centre where I had many an argument.
Tampa and Orlando offices were really great, they let me and the other English driver park on a spare dock at the ends of their loading docks and 8 hours later they woud wake us and we would have been reloaded very quietly 
Try Broward Mall a very big shopping centre.
toby1234abc:
Try Broward Mall a very big shopping centre.
Not many malls like trucks anymore 
Try Cooper City, or the environs of the airport in Ft. Lauderdale.
toby1234abc:
Try Cooper City, or the environs of the airport in Ft. Lauderdale.
No need now, there is a big new truckstop open just off the 595 at Fort Lauderdale, though it wasn’t required as my requests for the weekend off there were in vain. I had to load in Orlando for Toronto, where I’ve just arrived.