Rancher Will wrote:
Over the past decades we have stayed overnight in a Walmart park lot perhaps a half dozen times each year. We sometime also stay in a Truck stop paring lot also, always for convenience. When we do not need to take time, or time is close, to locate and set up and take down in a RV Camp Park, we can stop at Walmart or Truck Stop, get in and out on time without delay. The last two of our RVs required a slide out to use the bedroom. We have never had any problem extending the bedroom slide in any Walmart or Truck stop over night.
We always check with the manager on duty, both at Walmarts, Truck Stops, etc,. and get not only permission but advice as to where to park. We always make at least a small purchase at the business also, if only for courtesy, although usually because we need or can use something.
Just a tip for others that I learned from more than one Walmart manager. In the few Walmart stores that are in areas such as municipal restrictions where overnight parking is prohibited, it is not Walmart that prohibits. I have been told by Walmart managers that if we are contacted by city police, etc., and told "no overnight parking" just say "we are parked to shop in the morning". We have done this a few times, twice by security persons and once by a policeman, and never required to move before morning after telling this.
There are a few Walmarts where there is just not enough room to park but those are rare. In those it is obvious that we cannot park there for reasons of no space, so we do not stop there.
So, to improve on this just a little I would be doing really well if I had my old SLA battery sitting there to point at and say my RV is having problems and I need to get this battery as soon as they open. Thanks for your input, we learn something new every day. :) Ummm Hummm Ahhhh Haaaaa
