Parking problem due to many trucks that stand out in PA / SA at midnight What is the background of a truck overflowing on the highway at night?Parking trout increases are not solved

At the Tomei Expressway, PAs and SAs at night are flowing on trucks every day.NEXCO companies are working on adding parking trouts, but they do not have a drastic solution.What is the background?

Midnight PA / SA is like a truck terminal

A highway where traffic is declining, calling for unnecessary and urgent traffic to prevent the new colona infection from expanding.Among them, parking of trucks overflowing from the parking area (PA) (PA) (PA) and service area (SA) that have been said for a long time is a problem.

Highway companies have made various efforts, such as reviewing parcels and increasing parking space, but none are fundamental solutions.When I went back and forth on the Tomei Expressway, which is the aorta of logistics, I found that trucks that could not be parked in PA / SA have stopped finding various "gaps".

View a parking lot from the SA exit direction.A column parking line is formed sideways at the rear of the truck parked along the line (photographed by Minami Nakajima).

Reporter (Minami Nakajima) ran in time in December 2020, April 2021, and Tomei Expressway (Tokyo -Nagoya) for verification.The most prominent was the late -night PA / SA.Not only in a specific area, but everywhere, it was like a truck terminal.The parking space was separated from a small car and a large car, but it was almost filled with trucks as far as I could see.

At the rear of the truck that stopped along the parking area, another truck is laid down and the width of the passage is narrowed.On the outer periphery of the parking area, the vehicle stops on both sides of the aisle, and if you pass through a narrow passage by passenger car, it seems as if you pass through the valley.The white striped zebra zone that opens the space to make it easier to run is, of course, buried.Some SAs were installed with a large signboard of "no passage parking", but it was a place where construction was being done to increase the parking space.

The sense of urgency due to the lack of parking space comes from when you are running on the main line.When it is near midnight, trucks parked on the conductor to stop the express bus at the stop will become noticeable.Even if you do not look at the road sign, you can see that there is a PA / SA in the future by the parallel parking on the shoulder that continues from the main line.

This parallel parking also occurs on the shoulder of the PA / SA exit.There is a parcel with pylons so that parking cannot be parked, but it is not very effective because it stops into the gap.The parallel parking was long, sometimes just before the merging of the main line.As a result, the approach could not be earned, and sometimes I had to go to the main line without sufficient acceleration.

PA is in the truck parking lot all day

Because the trucks are too crowded, I feel that there is an overwhelming lack of parking so that I have the illusion that the exit may have been lost and clogged.What is the background?

It has been said that trucks are overflowing with PA / SA because they are adjusting the time to apply late -night discounts.In order to get a 30 % discount on the regular fee, you must use the highway at any time from midnight to 4:00.However, an employee of a PA restaurant talks about the tendency of parking.

"The number of vehicles increases from the evening and does not decrease even in the discount time zone. Is it going to calm down?"

I ran in the daytime to check this.It may be that there are few passenger cars to suppress unnecessary and urgent outing, but most of the vehicles parked in PAs in the daytime were trucks.In this article, "PA / SA" and PA are described earlier because PA is closer to parked trucks.

There is also a huge signboard of "no passage parking".At the time of the interview, this area was under construction to increase the number of parking spaces (photographed by Minami Nakajima).

It is said that the lack of parking is also affected by "work style reform".The driver's working hours are strictly required not only when driving, but also to shorten all restraint time from delivery to entry, and to ensure sufficient rest time.Nevertheless, many vocational drivers are almost impossible to secure a resting place on their own.Under such circumstances, the PA / SA on the highway has a shower facility, etc., and functions as a representative rest facility.

It is unwavering that truck transport is supporting Japan's logistics, but even so, the total number of use of the highway decreased from 2020 and 2021, and in addition to the fact that there are almost no tourist chartered buses, the truck is PA /.The fact that SA is overflowing is likely to be a big challenge for society to regain the daily life before Corona.