The two bands
Unmanaged land and managed yards are different products
Search "truck parking near me" around Houston and both markets answer. They are not competing on the same thing, and treating the price gap as negotiable is how rigs end up on a driveway with a padlock and a promise.
- $35–66 a month — marketplace listingsA patch of someone's land, booked through an app. Usually no gate, no lighting, no cameras, nobody on the property, and no one to call when a trailer is not where you left it.
- $99–250 a month — professional facilitiesPurpose-run yards. Fencing, gated access, lighting and some form of management. The spread inside this band is mostly about access hours, staffing, and whether the stall is actually sized for a combination vehicle.
- What the gap buysFacilities with gated entry, cameras, fencing, individual access codes and on-site management command higher rates across the storage industry — a 2026 survey of 10,431 facilities found exactly that pattern. The market prices security because theft does not haggle.
Published numbers
What does a stall actually cost on this yard?
LockRig publishes every rate — the full rate card is here — so the numbers below are the actual numbers, not a starting point for a phone negotiation.
- $89 a month11.6 × 40 ft stall — bobtail, day cab, box truck, cargo van. The entry point, and it is a gated, lit, resident-managed entry point.
- $129.99 a monthThe standard 80-foot stall. A tractor and a 53-foot trailer with room to turn without a spotter. Wider cuts run $139.99–194.99 by width.
- $10–28 a dayNightly, by stall size. A week runs $67.99. The gate opens at any hour — overnight parking works the same at 4 a.m. as at 4 p.m.
- What is included24/7 gated access, LED lighting end to end, cameras, a resident manager on the property, and a tire shop inside the gate. None of that is an add-on.
Monthly is the cheaper way to buy parking if the truck comes back more than nine nights a month.
The hidden line items
What does parking cost beyond the rate?
The rate is the visible cost. Drivers pay the rest in time and risk, and the industry numbers on that are blunt.
A reserved stall converts the nightly hunt into a known destination. That is worth actual money in hours-of-service terms — the fine for running over to find parking is real, and so is the load you do not take because the clock ran out. Before you commit to any yard, run it past the ten things worth checking before you park, and if you are comparing storage lines too, the 8×20 vault cost breakdown uses the same method on the other half of this yard.
Comparing quotes
How do you compare two parking quotes?
Two yards quoting the same monthly number are rarely selling the same thing. Before you treat prices as comparable, pin down what each one includes.
- Access hours are moneyA yard that closes overnight quietly converts your late arrivals into ramp parking. If the gate is not 24/7, the real price includes the nights the yard is unavailable to you.
- Stall length decides the productA "truck space" that turns out to be 40 feet means dropping the trailer somewhere else. Confirm the stall fits the full combination before comparing rates at all.
- Weekly math misleads$67.99 a week sounds close to monthly value, but a month is 4.3 weeks — $292 against $129.99 for the same standard stall. Weekly is a bridge, not a plan.
- The extras columnDeposits, gate cards, "premium" lighting rows, per-visit fees on storage lines. LockRig's published card is the whole number; when comparing elsewhere, ask what arrives on the first invoice that is not on the website.
Compare it against your last month of receipts
Rates are published, the gate opens at any hour, and the entry point is $89 a month five minutes off I-10 at Brookshire.