This is a Quote from Member "T" from the RV Travel Forum. I believe this person has a lot of merit in their statement and I support it. What's your opinion?
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(quote) These rv park owners seem to feel they are entitled to have an RVers business simply because they are in an RV. But until they enter the park and pay them, they are NOT their customer. Where do they get the sense of entitlement? They have failed in the basic premise of their business - attracting customers. Either people don't know the park exists or they have made the decision to stay elsewhere, whether for free at Wal-mart or another location. Either way, the park owners have failed to attract them and have no right to expect that business.

Using their logic, rv parks should be outlawed, since motels would probably have more business if it weren't for rv parks.

I have little tolerance for this kind of hypocrisy. As soon as they open for business they want to use government to their advantage. The very freedoms that enabled them to open their business are the ones which they now wish to deny to anyone who wishes to compete.

Perhaps there should be a list of those parks who attempt to use the power of government to their own benefit. Then we would all know who to boycott. (end of quote)
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In my opinion, not allowing a driver to sleeps a few hours in a rest stop, or a parking lot in Walmart and posting signs as such, or forcing a drive to "move on" whether it is a driver of a RV or a large truck rig (18 wheeler), and if further down the road, that driver is in a accident, there is a legal liability issue.
In my opinion, that is like a person falling on your sidewalk because you did not remove the ice, you are legally liable. Well the same rule applies here. If a driver needs a few hours sleep, whether they are driving a car, a 18 wheel truck, a bus or a motorhome, they pull into a rest stop along an interstate, or a Walmart parking lot. There are signs prohibiting the driver from parking, closing his eyes to sleep a few hours, this driver wrecks further down the road, how can that not be a legal liability issue?
In this day and age, where everyone is suing somebody for something and you can get sued for "farting" in public, (just kidding) how can any public official force a drive to "move on" and not be legally responsible if the driver is involved in an accident? Clearly there are legal implications involved here, that need to be further researched.
I think if Sam Walton were alive today, he would be so sad. His policy of allowing the RV public to park their RV in his parking lots of his Walmart stores was because he loved RV'ing, and it makes good business sense too. I are not talking about setting up camp in the lot, I'm talking about catching some sleep. Maybe officials could mark the tires with chalk and after 12 hours pass, then make you leave, but an outright ban seems illegal, and even dangerous, to force a driver, any drive to drive, if he is tired.
Also, I have nothing against campgrounds and I stay at them often.
What I am against is not having the option to park a few hours. How many business owners are reading this, whether you own a golf course, drive in movie theatres or whatever, would it not be nice when your business slows up for econominal reasons, just have your politicians pass a law to force the public into your business? RV'ers pay fuel taxes and should have access to rest stops the same as everyone else. As for Walmarts, they purchase the land, they pay taxes on the land, and if they choose to allows RV's to park in their lots for 12 hours, that should be their choice. I wonder how many people in cars, who fell asleep where told to "move on". Granted a car blends in much better than a big RV in a parking lot, but the driver is just as tired and just as human, as the driver in the car. Where does regulations end?