Monetize trailer parking at MODEX

A warehouse can run out of room before it runs out of land, and Truck Parking Club showed up to MODEX 2026 telling operators to sell that leftover land by the day. The company said it would be in booth A4911 showing warehouses how to make money “outside their 4 walls” at the April 13-16 show in Atlanta. (tiktok.com) (modexshow.com) Truck Parking Club’s pitch is simple: if a warehouse has extra yard, curb, or lot space, it can list that space for paid truck and trailer parking instead of leaving it empty. On its warehouse-host page, the company says top-performing sites can earn more than $12,000 a month and that more than 200 warehouse locations are already participating. (truckparkingclub.com) This is aimed at a very specific headache in freight: trailers often need a place to sit for a few hours, a few days, or a few weeks while loads are sorted, relayed, or staged. Truck Parking Club markets that directly to dispatchers as “drop trailer” parking with instant booking, centralized billing, and no long-term contract. (truckparkingclub.com) The company did not start as a warehouse software vendor. FleetOwner reported that founder Evan Shelley launched Truck Parking Club in December 2022 to let businesses with extra space rent parking to truckers, starting with trucking companies, self-storage operators, industrial real estate owners, and vacant-lot landlords. (fleetowner.com) By 2026, that old truck-stop problem had turned into a warehouse-landlord pitch. The public site now offers hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly truck and trailer parking across hundreds of locations, while the property side is framed as a no-upfront-cost revenue stream for owners with unused exterior space. (truckparkingclub.com 1) (truckparkingclub.com 2) MODEX is the right stage for that message because it is not a small trucking meetup. The show says MODEX 2026 will bring more than 1,000 exhibits, 200 educational sessions, and over 50,000 supply chain attendees to the Georgia World Congress Center, which means a hall full of warehouse operators, third-party logistics firms, and distributors who control exactly this kind of space. (modexshow.com 1) (modexshow.com 2) The buyers Truck Parking Club wants are the operators with messy yards, not the operators with perfect ones. A regional distributor with 20 empty trailer stalls on weekends or a third-party logistics company with a side lot used only during peak season can turn that dead space into short-term parking inventory instead of carrying it as wasted asphalt. (truckparkingclub.com 1) (truckparkingclub.com 2) There is a catch, and truckers have complained about it before. Overdrive reported in 2024 that some drivers saw pay-to-park expansion as a line crossed when spaces that had been free started showing up as paid reservations, which means the same model that creates revenue for property owners can also raise costs for drivers and fleets. (overdriveonline.com) That tension is why this MODEX pitch stands out. Truck Parking Club is selling warehouse operators on a new line item that comes from paint stripes, fencing, and gate access they already have, while selling fleets on overflow capacity they can book only when a network breaks down or a customer yard is full. (truckparkingclub.com) (truckparkingclub.com) If that catches on, the warehouse exterior stops being a buffer and starts acting like inventory. A patch of pavement that used to hold nothing but overflow risk becomes a metered product, priced by the hour, day, week, or month. (truckparkingclub.com)