A group of truckers in Nevada are threatening to add a $500 delivery surcharge for loads to a specific county where multiple truck parking yards have been shut down. 

Multiple truck parking yards in Clark County, Nevada have been closed in the Las Vegas Valley due to zoning violations. These lots include one location on Las Vegas Boulevard, and one on Nellis Boulevard.  In response to the severely reduced truck parking options, the Nevada Hispanic Truckers’ Association says they may have to add a $500 surcharge to any deliveries made in Clark County. 

“The problem is that there’s not enough parking for them,” said a spokesperson for the Nevada Hispanic Truckers’ Association, Dunia Antunez, to Fox 5 Vegas. “So, they’re being given tickets $500 to $800 tickets for parking in residential areas or streets.”

To make up for the $500-$800 tickets, the Nevada Hispanic Truckers’ Association plans to add the $500 charge for Clark County starting July 1st, unless the local government decides to take action. 

“The county commissioners must stop closing down this long-term parking and they need to build more actually, because we have too many truckers, we don’t have enough parking,” Antunez said.

In response to their calls for action, Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom says that the recently closed truck parking yards were never legally approved as commercial vehicle parking areas to begin with, but admits he’s sympathetic the the problems the closures has caused for the drivers

“They have lots of violations, code violations, cause it was not zoned for business, no business license for that that be of use in that neighborhood,” Segerblom said. “It’s really because of the diesel fumes, big trucks going down neighborhood streets is not healthy in my opinion,” Segerblom said. “You wouldn’t want to have a truck parking yard in a residential neighborhood.”

Segerblom says he’s working to put new policies in place that would create legal, properly regulated truck parking yards in the correct locations, but does warn the drivers that this process could take months.  

“We want to make sure that the lot is paved, that it is an appropriate area, that it requires a special use permit,” he said.