The guides
Nine pieces, from the rate card to the road call
- What unsafe parking actually costs when it goes wrongTexas tow caps, storage fees and 2025 cargo theft losses, itemized with sources, set against a monthly stall.
- Diesel just set a record. An hour hunting for parking now costs more than the stall.$5.90 a gallon on 7 September 2026. What an hour of idling or circling burns at that price, with the sources, against a $14.99 night.
- What truck parking actually costs around Katy and HoustonThe two market bands — $35–66 unmanaged land vs $99–250 professional facilities — and what each includes. The anchor piece, refreshed quarterly.
- Why a blowout costs an owner-operator a full dayThe tire is the cheapest part. The waiting, the hours-of-service math and the lost load are the bill.
- 8×20 drive-up vault vs 10×15 indoor unitA contractor's breakdown: length, loading time, access hours and the monthly numbers.
- A vault, a shipping container and a 10×15 unit walk into a yardThree storage formats, compared honestly — including where each of the other two wins.
- What actually fits in an 8×20 storage vaultThe capacity guide, trade by trade — geometry, loading order, and the honest limits.
- Parking is a line item. Book it like one.Break-even math at published rates, the search-time line nobody books, and how to make it auditable.
- Semi truck storage: 10 things to know before you park it for a seasonParking a semi or trailer for weeks or months: cost, stall size, batteries, tires, fuel and DEF.
Every guide lands on the same rate card in the end — because it is published. Every stall, every rate.
Find the yard
Five minutes north of I-10, exit 732
3485 FM 362, Brookshire, TX 77423 — tap the map and Google Maps takes you straight to the gate.
The entrance is signed from the road — no hunting an unmarked driveway in the dark.
Run the arithmetic on your own month
Published rates: $129.99 a month, $14.99 a day. Compare them against your receipts, not our adjectives.