Truck parking income calculator
How many truck and trailer spaces fit on your land, and what they could rent for. It shows its working, so you can check it against your own plot rather than take our word for it.
1 acre × 43,560 sq ft, of which 34–45% becomes stall once drive aisles are allowed for, ÷ 960 sq ft per tractor-trailer space = 15–20 spaces. × $300 × 80% occupancy.
This is gross rent, not income. Insurance, surface upkeep, lighting, power and the occasional abandoned trailer all come off it, and none of it is worth counting until you know you have permission.
An acre is 43,560 square feet. A tractor-trailer space is about 12 feet by 80 feet, so roughly 960 square feet of stall. Dividing one by the other gives 45 spaces an acre, and that number is wrong: it assumes trucks teleport into place.
Two rows of stalls sharing one drive aisle is already about 220 feet deep to hold 160 feet of stall, and that is before perimeter circulation, the entrance, and whatever your plot's shape wastes. In practice 34–45% of the ground ends up as stall, which is why an acre holds roughly 15 to 20 spaces rather than 45.
How many truck parking spaces fit on an acre?
Roughly 15 to 20 tractor-trailer spaces. An acre is 43,560 square feet and a tractor-trailer stall is about 960 square feet, but only about a third to a little under half of the ground becomes stall once you allow for drive aisles wide enough for a 53-foot trailer to swing into place, plus perimeter circulation and the entrance.
How much does a truck parking space rent for?
Commonly between $150 and $500 per space per month. Where the land sits relative to freight matters more than anything you can do to it. A lot within a few miles of a major interchange, a port or a distribution cluster sits at the top of that range, and the same acre twenty minutes off the corridor sits at the bottom.
Is this what I would actually take home?
No. It is gross rent. Insurance, surface upkeep, lighting, power, weeds and snow, and the occasional abandoned trailer all come off it. Commercial vehicle storage is also not covered by an ordinary property policy, so speak to a broker before taking any booking.
Do I need permission to park trucks on my land?
Almost everywhere in the United States, running truck parking as a business is a change of use, even on land that is already flat and empty. Rules are set county by county and change, so ask your local planning and zoning department about your parcel before spending anything. It is the step that stops most projects.
Check you are allowed to do it, and check the ground will take a loaded trailer. Those two stop more projects than the numbers ever do.